Watlow Temperature Control Box

Image Removed

The Watlow Temperature Control Box Handbook

insert super sxe pic of watlow box bound to get any system heated up

© GDS Instruments Ltd

Contents

Image Removed

1 Introduction

2 RS232 Serial Communication Settings

3 Temperature Control Settings in GDSLab

Introduction

Image Removed

The Watlow temperature control box (generally referred to as the Watlow box) is a temperature control device with the capability of monitoring up to 4 devices at the same time. These devices can be a mixture of local PT100 instruments and heating pads.

Data transfer from the box to GDSLab is via RS232 serial communication using a PC comm port.

A PT100 will always be set as device one, heating pads will have to be connected to the respective 2, 3, 4 thermocouple slots on the rear of the Watlow box.

Serial Communication

Image Removed

Settings

To receive temperature readings from sensors and set targets, the following communication settings will need to be input.

Temperature Control Settings in GDSLab

Image Removed

Using the Advanced Loading test module, temperature control can be enabled by clicking “Settings” in the top left hand of the test window, then, “Set Allow Temperature Control TRUE” option will have to be enabled.

After proceeding from the initial “Triaxial Test Setup” window, the temperature control options window will be presented. The example below shows a specimen temperature ramp to 10Cº in 60 minutes and a constant cell temperature target of 50Cº.

Image Removed

Image Added

4

Navigating the EZ-ZONE PM PID Controller Display

Image Removed

Keys and Displayed Messages

The Watlow EZ-ZONE PM PID Controller has many menus to navigate through with various submenus with these. The image below lists each key on the interface and its function. For the Watlow heating box, 1/16 DIN (PM6) is used.

If the system has an issue, an error message will be displayed on the screen. If you are unable to resolve this issue, please do not hesitate to contact us at http://gdsinstruments.helpserve.com/.

The full table of error troubleshooting can be found in the document below.

The Operations Page

The operations page contains functions for Watlow heating box to perform.

The full table of every menu option and their description for the Operations Page can be found in the document below.

The Setup Page

The setup page contains the configuration settings for how the Watlow box performs its operations.

The full table of every menu option and their description for the Setup Page can be found in the document below.

The full manufactures document can be downloaded below.