Cannon Instrument miniPV-X - Manual (Page 32)

CANNON ® miniPV-Series Automatic Viscometer with VISCPRO ® Instruction & Operation Manual
Version 1.a— January, 2011; CANNON ® Instrument Company
2139 High Tech Road • State College, PA 16803 • USA
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Here’s how it works: Just click Main/View Instrument from the
VISCPRO II interface to open the View Instrument Group window,
which displays all CANNON instrument types communicating with your
computer. Then select the desired instrument group (all instruments in a
single group communicate with the computer via the same COM port).
Once you have opened the desired instrument group, the Sample Input
window will appear. Individual TABBED PAGES now make it possible to
enter sample information for any viscometer in the instrument group.
The Machine Status window
You can toggle back and forth between the Sample Input window and
the new instrument group Machine Status window by pressing Ctrl-Page Down .
Monitoring instrument status You can monitor the status of all instruments in an instrument group by
pressing Ctrl-Page Down from the Sample Input window to display the
Machine Status window. To return to the Sample Input window, press
Ctrl-Page Down again.In the image above, instruments three and four
do not exist but could be accommodated in this instrument group. The
“placeholders” for these instruments are greyed out to indicate that
additional machines are not yet online for the group.
If additional instruments are online but are not appearing in the correct
instrument group, check network connections and make certain that each
instrument is turned on and functioning normally. Then click
Main/Poll for
Instruments to refresh communication with online instruments.
Group configuration
If your laboratory had 3 miniPV Series instruments with RS-485 connec-
tions, all could communicate with the computer via a single COM port,
provided that they were all assigned different instrument addresses. Each
instrument group provides its own Instrument View customized for that