HBC-4301 Operators Manual - Novatech Controls

6. CREATING A TEMPERATURE CYCLE
There are 100 heat cycles stored on the hard disk that can be edited and renamed before
starting a cycle.
Select the Temperature Profiles from the Control Functions menu.
You will be prompted for a cycle number. Page up, page down and the cursor up and down
can be used to view the list of cycle descriptions available.
A new cycle description can be entered by using the tab key to highlight the Edit Description
line or press ―S‖, Alt S or Enter to continue to the edit screen.
The Temperature Profiles screen has a graph on the left and a table on the right. The line of
text above the graph is the description of the cycle.
Fig. 6 Temperature Profiles Screen
Use the Tab key, cursor keys or the mouse to move to the data point you wish to change, and
type the new value. Use the [ESC] key to take you back to the main menu screen. A prompt
dialog box will appear when exiting this screen if changes have been made.
The 5 cells in each stage are:
1. Target temperatures.
2. Soak time, 0 to 2000 mins (33 hours) per stage, with a maximum of 200 hours for a
complete cycle.
3. Heat / cool rate in C/F / minute, 0.5 to 10.00.
4. Deviation temperature for the guaranteed soak function, 1 to 10C/F (0 to disable the
guaranteed soak feature).
5. The controlled vacuum level for this stage of the cycle. The automatic control of the
vacuum is not available if Pressure is selected on the Vacuum / Pressure Setup screen.
NOTE: Any stage can be skipped if the Skip tick box is ticked. Use the mouse and the left
click or the tab key to move to the tick box and the space bar to select / deselect the skip.
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