Profile-UpLoader-Video-Presentations

Profile UpLoader Software Configuration

Before running the software set your controllers modbus address equal to 1. Then physically connect your temperature controller via its serial adapter cable to your computers serial port.

When you run the Profile Uploader software the first time you will need to configure its serial communications.

There are 2 parts to configuring communications:

• First you need to select the serial port to be used

• Second you need to select the controller modbus addresses

To set up the serial port click on the SETUP > COMM PORT menu. This will bring up the comm port setup window. You will be prompted with instructions about how to scan for serial ports on your computer. Clicking on the SCAN PORTS button will:

-1- scan for serial ports installed on your computer

-2- if it finds a serial port it will test to see if there is a controller connected to that port at modbus address #1.

• • If you see the message saying a controller is connected to a particular port number then you know that is the port number to us.

As you can see from the results of my scan:

-1- serial port #1 is detected

-2- a device was detected connected to that serial port

I then dial in the serial port number #1 and click on USE THIS SETTING. This selects the communications port number to use with the software.

Exit out of this window back to the main form.

Next I need to map what controllers are connected to my computer.

To do this click on SETUP > Channel Map.

Click on "SCAN ADDRESSES". This queries the modbus addresses on the communications port we just selected to see which addresses have a controller connected. The results of the scan on my system show that there is a controller on modbus addresses #1 and #3.

The software automatically fills in the table below. While you can edit all the fields shown in the table the only ones you would want to edit are in the NickName column. Give it a name that is descriptive of the device whose temperature you are controlling such as "glass annealing oven".

This completes the hardware setup.

Creating and Editing a Temperature Profile

This video is shows you how to create and edit a temperature profile.

Click on the EDIT PROFILE menu.

I have already used my installation so the software has remember the last profile that I edited. Since you are starting from scratch you will need to do as follows:

Click on FILE > OPEN PROFILE and then select Mold-Drying-Profile.txt . The software then displays the profile parameters in the USER PROMPT area, a graph of the profile and a spreadsheet with all the numbers in the profile. By using this profile as a starting point you will be able to modify and run whatever you want.