General CIH30DL, User Manual

Page 1: ...DATA LOGGING HOT WIRE ANEMOMETER with CFM CMM and 30 1 IR THERMOMETER USER S MANUAL CIH30DL Please read this manual carefully and thoroughly before using this product...

Page 2: ...aying Maximum Minimum and Average Values 10 11 Recalling and Erasing Stored Measurements 11 12 Using the Advanced Settings Menu 12 13 Data Logging with a Computer 14 21 Install Software and Drivers 14...

Page 3: ...urrent required is directly proportional to the square of the wind speed Hot wire anemometers are as accurate as vane anemometers but hot wire units are better able to measure very slow air currents b...

Page 4: ...ower Off function is disabled This prevents unexpected meter shutoffs from interrupting data uploads KEY FEATURES Measures and displays air speed or airflow volume in several Imperial or metric units...

Page 5: ...attach and detach either of two kinds of plugs one with American style blades and the other with European style round prongs One plug of each type is included in the case A 9V Alkaline battery A plast...

Page 6: ...huts off 9 MODE SET button When pressed briefly and repeatedly cycles readouts to show real time measurements maximum minimum and average readings and recalled stored measurements When pressed and hel...

Page 7: ...MIN and AVG display indications G DATA RECALL and DATA LOG indications H PC LINK indication I IR Temperature HOLD indication J Battery charge indicator K IR temperature measurement unit C or F L Time...

Page 8: ...nning on p 14 for ways to connect the CIH30DL to an external power source OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS GETTING STARTED To prepare the CIH30DL for use line up the hot wire probe plug Fig 1 Callout 15 with th...

Page 9: ...n F When making air speed or airflow volume measurements it s important to make sure the air flows directly through the larger window in the probe head containing the hot wire If some of the airflow g...

Page 10: ...sensors in the probe head press the button This will freeze the value shown on the primary readout and cause the HOLD icon to appear above it Held measurements are erased when the meter is powered of...

Page 11: ...arameters RECALLING AND ERASING STORED READINGS Pressing the MODE SET button a fourth time begins retrieval and display of the measurements stored in nonvolatile memory The first set of three values r...

Page 12: ...superimposed on dashes to flash continuously indicating that all stored measurements have been erased To confirm the erasure repeatedly press either the or button and note that all DATA X RECALL disp...

Page 13: ...h field The sampling time can be set to any value between 5 seconds 00 00 05 and 59 minutes 59 seconds 00 59 59 After entering the desired sampling time press the MODE SET button to store it Press the...

Page 14: ...en shown in Fig 9 will appear 3 Click Next to install the anemometer s application program Anemometer AP Version 3 in your C Program Files x86 folder in a new subfolder named ST73X If you want to inst...

Page 15: ...lower right will pop up two notifications 1 Installing Device Driver Software followed by Prolific USB to Serial COMM Port COM X Device Driver Software Installed Successfully Depending on which Windo...

Page 16: ...on the meter s LCD The connection will also cause the word LINK to appear on the bottom line of the meter s LCD WARNING If your computer is running the 64 bit version of Windows7 NEVER disconnect the...

Page 17: ...ter probably has enough memory 20 000 sets of readings to store all the data you ask the meter to log unless you use it to log data for months rather than weeks or days Because most data logging is do...

Page 18: ...as long as it is powered on On most consumer DVRs you can retrieve video received at any time from the present until one hour ago unless the channel is changed On the CIH30DL the length of the corresp...

Page 19: ...trends in ambient air speed and temperature values captured by the probe since the meter was last powered on Unlike Record data the data in plots generated by the dashboard s chart function are not a...

Page 20: ...he dashboard are located at the bottom left below the plots The icon at left a lock is called the Scale Lock button Left click it to toggle in and out of autoscaling for each plot To the right of the...

Page 21: ...og data points are captured at the sampling rate you selected or the previous default sampling rate if you chose not to select a new rate before beginning a data logging session Finally note that when...

Page 22: ...on 0 1 F 0 1 C IR Thermometer Emissivity Adjustable from 0 1 to 1 0 in increments of 0 01 Default value is 0 95 IR Thermometer Distance to Spot Ratio 30 1 Airflow Register Area Range 0 01 to 322 92 ft...

Page 23: ...t must be returned to General Tools Instruments or to a General authorized service center freight prepaid and insured Acceptance of the exclusive repair and replacement remedies described herein is a...

Page 24: ...cy consider how the CIH30DL would be used to measure the temperature of a small AC motor suspected of overheating The motor measures approximately 1 ft x 1 ft so it has an area of 1 ft2 If the CIH30DL...

Page 25: ...of its IRT see below figure For a motor with an area of 1 ft2 and using an IRT with a D S ratio of 30 1 the optimum measurement distance would be 30 ft For best results the targeted area spot should...

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