Adding Spray Monitors to the OI

NOTE: Access to this function is normally restricted to Nordson field service personnel or trained administrators.

If setting up a new system or adding new Spray Monitors to an existing system, you must add the Spray Monitors to the OI. The OI then creates a faceplate for the Spray Monitor.

1. Touch the Tools button on the main button bar.

2. Select System Configuration from the drop-down menu.

3. Touch the OPC Spray Monitor button at the top of the System Configuration window:

OPC Remote Client option: If you are setting up a Remote Client then the Remote button appears on this window. Touch the Remote button and enter the network name of the computer the OPC Server is installed on. This allows the Remote Client to communicate with the OPC server.

OPC Local Client: If the words Local Client appear instead on the System Configuration window, then the OI and OPC Server are installed on the same PC and you can start adding spray monitors.

4. Touch the Add Spray Monitors button. The OPC Device window appears, listing the Spray Monitors available on the network.

   

NOTE: The OPC Server always recognizes the Spray Monitors by their default names (GUN1, GUN2, etc.) as defined by their node address switch settings.

5. Touch the names of the Spray Monitors you want to add, or

Select all Monitors.
Deselect all selected Monitors.
 

6. Accept the selections, or
   cancel.

The new Spray Monitors appear in the list on the System Configuration window, and the new Spray Monitor faceplates appear in the main window. If there are PRx Modules on the iTrax CAN network with the same node address settings as the Spray Monitors, their faceplates also appear.

7. Add Spray Controllers and standalone PRx Modules to the OI.

8. Make Service Settings for each Spray Monitor.

   Spray Monitor Service Settings

   NOTE: These settings can only be made by a Nordson Service Representative or an administrator who has been given access permission to these settings.

   • Trigger Polarity

   • Trigger Mode

   • Sampling

   • Spray Output Polarity

   • Can In Pocket

   • Can In Pocket Polarity

   • Alarm Reset Mode

   • Failsafe

   • Transducer Type

   • Trigger LED Function

   • Minimum Spray Output

   • Smoothing

   • Sample Point

   • Electrical Noise Warning

   • Duration Too Short Warning

   • Cycle Rate Too Fast Alarm

   • Animation Type

9. Configure the Spray Monitors before beginning production.  

10. Create Spray Machines if you use One-Button Recipes.