Page 2 - Benelux; OMEGA Engineering Ltd.; OMEGAnet
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Page 3 - Warning
3 T ABLE OF C ONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................................................4 1.1 FOB100 PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS ..............................................................................
Page 4 - NTRODUCTION; Congratulations; FOB100 product specifications
4 1 I NTRODUCTION Congratulations on the purchase of your FOB100 Series thermometer product! Your new temperature sensing system will soon allow you to take full advantage of the benefits inherent to fiber optic sensing technology. It offers accurate and reliable temperature measurements, combined w...
Page 5 - General Purpose Probe FOBS
The following figure gives a description of the various probe configurations that are oOmega. General Purpose Probe FOBS Coupling, included with extension cable: FOBS-CAB-(*) Extension Cable Other options and configurations are also possible; contact Omega 1.2 Calibration Your FOB thermometer comes ...
Page 6 - NPACKING
6 2 U NPACKING Before using your FOB100 thermometer, check the box content to be sure all items have been included. Your package should normally contain: • FOB100 series signal conditioner unit • Power supply module (universal input: 100-240VAC, 50/60Hz) • RS-232C interface cable • User manual (this...
Page 8 - 32 communication interface:
2) Serial communication status light: RS-232 interface. This is useful to confirm a good communication link with your PC when the FOB100software package is used. 3) RS-232 communication interface: instrument. This DB-9 connector uses the same pinto-pin wired cable (not a null modem cableof the seria...
Page 10 - optical connector should be cleaned; Device connector
10 4 U SING THE T EMPERATURE P ROBES 4.1 Caution Each time you connect a temperature probe to the unit, the probe optical connector should be cleaned beforehand. Otherwise, particles of grease or dirt may obstruct the device internal connector and affect the measurements by completely blocking the s...
Page 12 - Using Hyper Terminal in Windows
12 5 S ERIAL C OMMUNICATION D ESCRIPTION You can communicate with your thermometer via the standard RS-232 link. A description of the cable requirements is given above, under front panel item # 3. RS-232 functions (or commands) can be accessed with a simple terminal, with the FOB100-SOFT software pa...
Page 13 - Detailed description of RS-232 commands
13 FOB101 FOB102 or 104 Description b b Return enclosure temperature N/A e[1;2; ... ;n] Enable channels to scan (if no argument, scan all) f[j] f[i;j] Set point adjustment on channel [i] to [j] h h Help menu (this screen) i i Get factory and status information l[i] l[i] Lock the keypad (l+ to lock, ...
Page 14 - Force temperature procedure
14 “f[j]” or “f[i j]” This command forces an actual temperature reading (j) for channel # i; any resulting offset will be applied to all future measurements for that channel. This is useful to compensate for small temperature deviations that may occur between sensors. A maximum offset of +/-5 o C is...
Page 16 - Typical temperature reading sequence
16 ex: “y E ”, with the FOB104 thermometer, will return: CH1: power:2.61, lamp attenuation: 250, CCD time: 50ms (fixed)<CR> CH2: power:2.51, lamp attenuation: 250, CCD time: 50ms (fixed)<CR> CH3: power:2.38, lamp attenuation: 125, CCD time: 50ms (fixed)<CR> CH4: power:1.09*, lamp a...
Page 17 - Display
17 6 E RROR C ODES The following error messages are displayed under certain error conditions: RS-232 Display Analog Out Description Err2 Err2 Internal memory checksum error. Memory corruption. Contact Omega. “- - . -” “- - - - -” Hi-Lo, 0.5 Hz* Temperature out of maximum instrument limits or no sign...
Page 18 - Hardware and software requirements; NOTE
18 7 FOB100-SOFT S OFTWARE P ACKAGE The FOB100-SOFT software package option allows using your thermometer system in a highly flexible manner. The built-in functions allow for temperature displaying and data logging, as well as exporting to a variety of standard spreadsheet packages. This software su...
Page 19 - Working with the Configuration Window
19 You should normally see a window similar to this: In this example, we see that FOB100-SOFT has detected 2 thermometers: a FOB104 and a HHTFO instruments. FOB100-SOFT is now properly installed and ready to use! 7.2.1 Working with the Configuration Window FOB100-SOFT starts with the “Acquisition” w...
Page 20 - Adjusting a temperature offset
20 For each instrument, this configuration window gives some information about this particular information and allows you to set some parameters. The top portion of the window gives information about the specifics of the thermometer, such as: • COM Port number • Serial Number • Calibration date. Des...
Page 21 - Logging temperature data to a file; Logging temperature data to a file
Warning : Doing a temperature offset adjustment on a channel will alter its reading. In effect, it alters the thermometer own calibration. It must be used with care! To perform an offset adjustment, follow these instructions: 1- Click the “Offset Adjust” button ( The following menu window is availab...
Page 23 - Displaying temperature trends
23 When logging temperatures for a very long time, one needs to note that a standard Excel sheet is limited to 65535 lines. If this limit is reached (65000 lines), the logging process will close the current data-logging file, and will open a new one, with the same name but with “_1” appended to the ...
Page 26 - Disconnect Instruments
26 Before sending commands and receiving information from a specific module, it is necessary to select the instrument you want to interrogate. Please note that only ONE instrument can be selected at a time; if the same command is to be sent to all thermometers, then, it is necessary to repeat the co...
Page 29 - RETURN REQUESTS/INQUIRIES; WARRANTY
MADE INCANADA WARRANTY/ DISCLAIMER OMEGA ENGINEERING, INC. warrants this unit to be free of defects in materials and workmanship for aperiod of 13 months from date of purchase. OMEGA’s WARRANTY adds an additional one (1) month grace period to the normal one (1) year product warranty to cover handlin...
Page 30 - Shop online at omega.com; SM
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