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INDEX
1 WARNINGS ........................................................................................................................................................................3
2 REQUIREMENTS FOR AN EFFECTIVE INSTALLATION .................................................................................................4
3 TECHNICAL FEATURES ...................................................................................................................................................4
4 SETUP ENVIRONMENT .....................................................................................................................................................5
4.1 SET-UP ENVIRONMENT BLOCK DIAGRAM...............................................................................................................7
4.2 DESCRIPTION OF THE STEPS...................................................................................................................................9
5 CALIBRATION..................................................................................................................................................................21
5.1 SCALE CONNECTED TO A SINGLE CHANNEL.......................................................................................................22
5.2 SCALE WITH NON INDEPENDENT CHANNELS (could eventually be digitally equalised) .......................................22
5.3 IF THE ZONE OF USE IS DIFFERENT THAN THE CALIBRATION ZONE ONE SHOULD:......................................23
5.4 QUICK CALIBRATION OF ZERO...............................................................................................................................24
5.5 QUICK CALIBRATION OF A DEFINED WEIGHT ......................................................................................................24
5.6 MANUAL CALIBRATION OF A DEFINED WEIGHT...................................................................................................24
6 DISPLAY OF THE GRAVITY ACCELERATION AND CORRECTION OF THE WEIGHING ERROR DUE TO THE
DIFFERENT GRAVITY ACCELERATION BETWEEN CALIBRATION ZONE AND UTILISATION ZONE..........................25
7 SERIAL OUTPUT..............................................................................................................................................................25
7.1 FIBER OPTIC PORT ..................................................................................................................................................25
7.2 SERIAL PORT TRANSMISSION MODES..................................................................................................................25
7.2.1 PC PORT .............................................................................................................................................................25
7.2.2 PRN PORT...........................................................................................................................................................28
7.3 FORMAT OF THE SERIAL COMMANDS...................................................................................................................28
7.4 TRANSMISSION PROTOCOLS .................................................................................................................................34
7.4.1 STANDARD STRING...........................................................................................................................................34
7.4.2 EXTENDED STRING ...........................................................................................................................................35
7.4.3 MASTER MODE STRINGS..................................................................................................................................36
8 PROGRAMMING THE PRINTOUTS.................................................................................................................................36
8.1 FORMATTING DATA AND LAYOUT..........................................................................................................................39
8.2 SAVING THE LABEL IN THE LABELLER’S PERMANENT MEMORY.......................................................................45
8.2.1 SAVING THE LABEL IN THE LABELLER’S PERMANENT MEMORY IN MASTER/SLAVE SYSTEMS .............45
9 PRINTING THE HEADING................................................................................................................................................46
10 CONNECTION SCHEMES..............................................................................................................................................49
10.1 EXPLANATION OF EXPANSION BOARDS (PRESENT DEPENDING ON THE MODEL) ......................................49
For the simplest usage in this manual, the name DFWATEX stands for both DFWATEX2GD, DFWATEX2GDIO,
DFWATEX2GDM and DFWATEX2GDMI,
so where “DFWATEX” is used it is understood as “DFWATEX2GD, DFWATEX2GDIO, DFWATEX2GDM and
DFWATEX2GDMI”.
NOTE FOR THE TECHNICIAN
Please take note that when the “StEP….(USER MAN.REF.)is mentioned, this refers to the user manual.