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DURING THE LAST 6 MONTHS WE HAVE MADE SOFTWARE UPGRADES THAT ARE
NOW STANDARD ON ALL MACHINES AND CAN BE RETROFITTED TO ALL 'GEN2'
CONTROLLERS
1) CONVEYOR ACCELERATION AND DECELERATION CONTROL
Now you not only can control the speed but also the accel and decel
of the conveyor so that unstable bottles can be tested at the
fasted rate. Generally The conveyor is set to the highest speed
where the bottle still just stays upright and then the accel/decel
are adjusted till no wobbling occurs.
The decel needs to be trimmed more than the accel generally. This
features takes a lot of headaches away from operators especially
those with little experience in setting up leak detectors.
For a small cost existing customers with GEN2 controllers can
upgrade
2) HEAD OVERLAP & BOTTLE STOPPING
From the menu system select HEAD UP/DOWN. The conveyor stops and
using the arrow keys you can manually work the head solenoid whilst
you adjust the head for the required 1-2 mm overlap of the
seal.
I generally under the head mast lever and move it higher than the
bottle, then extend the cylinder with the bottle to be tested
underneath and then I lower the whole head assembly onto the bottle
and put a slight force on the bottle and tighten the lever and the
overlap adjustment is finished in 1-2 minutes,.
This can now be all done in a manual mode without this having to be
done whilst in normal test modes which is the case for most leak
detectors.
Operators will find this very easy yo use and find this machine
less stressful to adjust as less skill is required.
3) BOTTLE STOPPING
From the menu system select BOTTLE STOPPING. The conveyor stops and
then you press start and the bottle continues it passes the sensors
and stops.
We suggest you first adjust the sensor a little bit upstream of the
final position and you can use another feature too.
Now it has stopped you can either adjust the sensor position or
adjust a timer that can be used to trim the position without moving
the sensor.
The more we have used this the more we wished is was a standard
feature long ago.
Our standard sensor see the whole range of colour and clear. If all
you are testing is PET at high speed we can offer a slightly better
sensor for this function.
This is very useful for the adjusting the bottle stopping position
when high speed testing is used.
4) WOBBLE - BOTTLE EXIT TIMERS
All leak detectors have a built in fixed exit delay timer, so that
when the conveyor starts again of the sensor is poorly adjusted and
the bottle wobbles the sensor otherwise would think it is seeing
another bottle and the head comes down again
This is OK being built in if you have a slow leak detector. However
your clients put us both to the test wanting to test unstable
bottles at high speeds as on our testers are capable ot this
function. Being able to adjust this time so the head does not come
down twice or possibly missed. It can be adjusted on the fly until
you have it right. Generally in greater than 95% of cases you will
never touch this, but when you need to it is better that you can
adjust it and get on with business.
It also makes it easier for your operators to get very high test
rates when required. Back
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