Cannon Instrument CT-2000 (Contant Temperature Bath) - Manual

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CANNON ® CT-2000 Constant Temperature Bath
Revision 1.0g—February, 2012; CANNON ® Instrument Company
2139 High Tech Road • State College, PA 16803 • USA
CONTENTS
1 INTRODUCTION 1
Overview ............................................................................................................................ 1
Safety features .................................................................................................................... 3
Operator Safety ................................................................................................................. 3
2 UNPACKING AND ASSEMBLY 5
Assembly procedure ........................................................................................................... 6
Glass jar installation ........................................................................................................... 6
Inserting viscometer tubes/thermometers ........................................................................... 9
Filling the bath .................................................................................................................. 10
Draining the Bath ............................................................................................................. 11
3 BATH OPERATION 13
Applying power ................................................................................................................ 13
Cold Start .............................................................................................................. 13
Warm Start ............................................................................................................ 14
Self-test sequence ............................................................................................................. 14
Front panel operations ...................................................................................................... 16
Using the keypad .................................................................................................. 17
Setting bath temperature ................................................................................................... 18
Calibrating the CT-2000 ................................................................................................... 18
MENU options .................................................................................................................. 20
Change to (C/F) .................................................................................................... 20
Bath temperature offsets ....................................................................................... 20
Communication options .................................................................................................... 21
Full duplex (point-to-point) connections .............................................................. 23
Half duplex and polled (multi-drop) operations ................................................... 23
Commands, queries & responses .......................................................................... 23