4 more about calibration, 1 adjusting final calibration, 2 gravity compensation – Rice Lake 520 HMI Digital Weight Indicator Installation Manual User Manual

Page 49: Adjusting final calibration, Gravity compensation

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520 Indicator Installation Manual

11. If hooks or chains were used to hang test

weights, the Rezero dialog box prompts you to

remove weights from the scale. Remove the

weights then click

OK

.

If hooks or chains were not used in the

calibration procedure, Revolution goes directly

to step 12. Calibration is complete.

12. When calibration is complete, the

New Settings

fields of the Indicator Calibration display are

filled in. Click

Exit

to save the new values and

return to the Revolution main menu; to restore

the previous calibration values (including

linear calibration values), click

Restore Settings

.

4.4

More About Calibration

The following topics provide additional information about

compensating for environmental factors (Section 4.4.1)

and diagnostic information for determining expected zero

and span coefficients.

4.4.1

Adjusting Final Calibration

Calibration may be affected by environmental factors

including wind, vibration, and angular loading. For

example, if the scale is calibrated with 1000 lb, a strain

test may determine that at 2000 lb the calibration is 3 lb

high. In this case, final calibration can be adjusted by

tweaking WVAL to 998.5 lb. This adjustment provides

a linear correction of 1.5 lb per 1000 lb.
To adjust the final calibration, return to the

WVAL

prompt and press to show the test weight value.

Press or to adjust calibration up or down. Press

to save the value, then press to return to the CALIBR

menu.

4.4.2

Gravity Compensation

This feature is used to compensate for the variance in

gravitational pull from one location to another and is

available for the

520

. To calibrate with gravity

compensation, the GRAVADJ parameter under the

PROGRM

menu must be set to ON (see Section 3.2.5 on

page 30), and the LATITUD (latitude) and ELEVATN

(elevation in meters, relative to sea level) parameters

set before calibrating the indicator (see Figure 4-1 on

page 40).
If the indicator is later installed at a different location,

gravity compensation can be applied to a pre-calibrated

indicator by adjusting the LATITUD and ELEVATN

parameters.

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