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Elcometer 500 - 10 CALIBRATING YOUR GAUGE; 10.1 BEFORE YOU START; 10.2 USING 1 POINT CALIBRATION

Elcometer 500
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8.5 AMENDING LIMITS
1 Press Menu/Limit Memories/Edit Limit Memory/Amend Limit
Memory.
2 Use the softkeys to highlight the limit memory to be
amended and press ‘Select’.
3 Use the softkeys to highlight ‘Set Upper Limit’ (or ‘Set Lower
Limit’) and press ‘Select’.
4 Use the softkeys to set the required value and press ‘Set’.
5 If required, repeat Steps 3-4 for ‘Set Lower Limit’ (or ‘Set Upper
Limit’) and ‘Set NDFT’.
6 When all values have been amended as required, use the
softkeys to highlight ‘Save Limit Memory n’ and press ‘Select’ to
save the changes.
8 SETTING LIMITS - MODEL T (continued)
9 CALIBRATION METHODS
Calibration is the process of setting the gauge to known coating
thickness values to ensure accurate and repeatable readings on
different coating materials.
A choice of calibration methods is available, see Table 2: Calibration
Methods. To select the calibration method, press Menu/Calibration/Cal
Method.
The calibration method currently selected is indicated by the
calibration method icon on the right of the measurement screen.
TABLE 2: CALIBRATION METHODS
Calibration
Method
Icon
Description
1 Point
A reading is taken on a substrate with a coating
of known thickness and adjusted accordingly.
See Section 10.2 ‘Using 1 Point Calibration’ on
page en-16 and Section 11 ‘Using the Coating
Calibration Mould’ on page en-22.
Coating
Material
The coating material is selected from a
pre-defined list of generic or user defined coating
materials, stored in the gauge memory. See
Section 10.5 ‘Using Coating Material Calibration’
on page en-19 and Section 11 ‘Using the Coating
Calibration Mould’ on page en-22.
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