Instron AVE2 - Chapter 7: Set up Bluehill; Fully Integrated Testing Systems

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Chapter 7
Set up Bluehill
®
3 software
• Fully integrated testing systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
• Non-integrated testing systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
References in Bluehill
®
3 help to the “video extensometer” are applicable only to the
older AVE and SVE instruments, they do not apply to AVE2 and SVE2.
For example, Bluehill
®
help states that the video extensometer must use the two
specially-created strain transducer configurations, video axial strain and video trans-
verse strain. This is true for the older video extensometers, but is not true for AVE2 and
SVE2; Bluehill
®
does not create these configurations.
Bluehill
®
3 software can run on a variety of testing systems with the AVE2 or SVE2. The
level of integration and control depends on the testing system.
Fully integrated testing systems
This section describes the following systems:
• 5900
• 3300
• 5500 and 5500A
• 8800 and ElectroPuls using the 8800MT controller
The following tables list the connections, requirements and configuration details for
each testing system operating with Bluehill
®
.
Table 15. 5900 systems
Connections Axial and transverse signals via Strain 1 connector to encoder.
Software requirements Requires Bluehill
®
V3.62 or later.
Recognition and configuration in
Bluehill
®
software
Video extensometer recognition. No configuration required in
Admin tab.