User Manual

Span Your Valves
Chapter 9
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We recommend that you span your plastication pressure valve for optimum
plastication performance in four parts:
Confirm critical values
Span your plastication pressure valve
Test valve linearity with a plastication backpressure vs. position profile
Set the profile pressure alarm
Important: You may omit the next three parts of this section if you have
the right information on valve spanning. Many injection molding machine
OEMs and hydraulic valve manufacturers provide data on spanning the
working range of valves used on their machines. If this information is
available from your OEM for your machine’s plastication pressure valve,
enter the values into pressure control limits PLC41-44 and proceed to Set
the Profile Pressure Alarm.
Confirm Critical Values
Important: Confirm that all entries you made for configuration values
(chapter 7) and profile values (chapter 8) are as follows:
On Worksheet Confirm Your Configuration With These Words or Bits ProSet Addr
7H QDC module output to which you connected
your plastication pressure control valve
PLC02B06, B05, B04 B38/404406
Setoutput values for unselected valves PLC0912 = your values N44:365368
All ramping is disabled with zero ramp rates PLC1720 = 0
PLC2528 = 0
N44:373376
N44:381384
Endofprofile Setoutput values PLC3336 for zero output N44:389392
Pressure limits:
Minimum Pressure Control Limit
Maximum Pressure Control Limit
Selected Pressure Valve, Output for Min
Selected Pressure Valve, Output for Max
PLC41 = 0
PLC42 = max attainable backpressure
PLC43 = your value
PLC44 = your value
N44:397
N44:398
N44:399
N44:400
8D Backpressure vs Position algorithm PPC03B00 = 0 B38/480
Logical bridge to stop and set outputs before
postdecompression
PPC03B08 = 1 B38/488
Openloop control PPC04B01 = B00 = 1 B38/496, 497
Expert Response Compensation (ERC) = Off PPC04B09 = B08 = 1 B38/504, 505
Backpressure setpoints PPC10,14, 18, 22, 26, 30, 34, 38, 42,
46, 50 all equal to max desired
backpressure
start @ N44:426
end @ N44:466
Position setpoints PPC11,15,19,23,27,31,35,39,43,47
equal segments over shot size
start @ N44:427
end @ N44:463
Shot size PPC62 = typical for your machine N44:478
If these are not your current values, we suggest that you correct them now
and download them using the download procedure discussed in chapter 4.
Span Y our Plastication
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