Brookfield R/S Coaxial Cylinder Rheometer User Manual

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Brookfi eld Engineering Labs., Inc.

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Manual No. M08-219-B1211

VI.

Operation and Menu System

The following section summarizes the operation and the menu system of the R/S+ Rheometer for
both manual and PC-controlled measurement.

Menu prompts for the R/S+ Rheometer in stand-alone mode are available in the following
languages:

English
German

The language is selected via the menu level Confi guration

Language (if English is active)

or Konfi guration

Sprache (if German is active). For more details on language selection, see

Section VI.7.6.

After applying power to the R/S+ Rheometer, the LCD displays the following information for
a few seconds:

name of the rheometer
software version of the fi rmware installed in the instrument
serial number of the instrument
date and time

Example:

R/S+ Rheometer

Ver.: 9.00 #xxxxxx

27.10.11 15.12

©Brookfi eld Engineering

About fi ve seconds later, the instrument checks the voltage of the power supply. The displayed
voltage should be in the range of 14.9 to 16V. If the voltage is outside this range, contact Brookfi eld
or your local Brookfi eld dealer.

Example:

Voltage Check:
VCC:15.25 V

This message is displayed for about 3 seconds and then the

MAIN menu is displayed. A brief

summary, in Section VI.4, of the rheometer keyboard and the corresponding rheometer functions
may be helpful before you get to the complete description of the menu.





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