Operating instructions

Chapter 4 Operating Instructions

C4000 Standard/Advanced

Subject to change without notice

Configurable functions

Blanked areas require a separate risk analysis!

A blanked area is in principle a hole in the protective field. Check in detail whether and

where blanking is actually required. You must protect the blanked area in another way, e.g.

mechanically. Otherwise you must take the blanked area into consideration in the

calculation of the minimum distance and mount the safety light curtain appropriately.

 After modifying the blanking, check the protective field with the test rod. Instructions

can be found in chapter 7.3.3 on page 65.

 Also pay attention to the warnings in the related chapter.

Properties of blanked areas

 The C4000 Advanced is capable of blanking a total of four areas simultaneously.

 Fixed and floating blanking can be mixed.

 A minimum of one beam spacing must exist between two blanked areas. The CDS (Con-

figuration & Diagnostic Software) automatically ensures that this is the case during the

configuration. Exception: It is not necessary to maintain any distance between an area

of floating blanking with partial object monitoring and an area of fixed blanking without

a positional tolerance. In this case the effective resolution for the overlapping is equal

to the sum of the effective resolutions in the two areas (see Tab. 11 and Tab. 12).

 The first beam of the light curtain (close to the 7Csegment display) cannot be blanked. It

is needed for the synchronisation between sender and receiver.

 With fixed blanking, the 7Csegment display indicates  as soon as sender and receiver

are aligned.

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WARNING

Fig.

Example of

mechanical protection of

fixed or floating blanking

Blanked area, sides

protected by

mechanical barriers