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Coarse and the Fine adjustments to 2.5 VDC should set the output of the amplifier to zero provided the Measure and the Reference signals have the same magnitude.
When the control unit enters the zero mode, the micro controller drops the amplifier to a low gain. The coarse adjustment is first used to zero out the amplifier on this gain. When the output of the amplifier is reasonably close to zero, the amplifier goes to the highest gain. Whatever residual offset was left from the coarse adjustment is now magnified. Now with the coarse adjustment fixed, the Fine adjustments tries to bring the output of the ampli- fier back to zero. When the high gain offset is close to zero, the micro con- troller freezes the Fine and the Coarse adjustments and proceeds to read the residual offset with the ADC. It goes through all of the ten gains available, thus the micro controller stores the offset of each gain, so that later they can be subtracted from the readings. This period of time is called the Software zero and it takes about 70 seconds to be finished.
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3.8.2 Signal Failure Alarm
System contacts are activated when the reference voltage as measured at the junction of R3 and R4 of the amplifier board, has fallen below 0.50 millivolts The VFD display will show the following message:
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