Dakota-ultrasonics CMX DL User Manual

OPERATION MANUAL DAKOTA ULTRASONICS CCMMXXDDLL Material & Coating Thickness Gauge P/N P-171-0002 Rev 1.30, A

Dakota Ultrasonics 6 Selecting the Transducer Type 1) Press the OK or ESC keys to display the factory list of transducer types (by diameter and freq

Dakota Ultrasonics 96 and advance to the next character field, in conjunction with using the CLR key to backspace if necessary. 4) Press the OK key t

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 97 Selecting the Auto Increment Direction The Auto Increment feature gives the user t

Dakota Ultrasonics 98 Saving Graphics The CMXDL provides the user with the ability to save a snapshot of the display screen and all the current settin

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 99 Saving a Grid Once all the parameters are set, the user has the option of saving o

Dakota Ultrasonics 100 Grid Log Sequential Log 6) Press the OK key to save the New Grid or Seq Log, or the ESC key to cancel the

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 101 Grid Log Sequential Log 1) Press the UP, DOWN

Dakota Ultrasonics 102 Viewing Stored Readings & B-Scans Grid Log Sequential Log 1) Assuming the Grid/Seq View

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 103 11.5 Deleting Grids (Files) Deleting One or All Files from Memory Deleting One Fil

Dakota Ultrasonics 104 3) Press the ENTER key to display the File List Box. 4) Use the UP and DOWN arrow keys to scroll through the stored Files un

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 105 3) Press the ENTER key to activate the confirmation screen. 4) Press the OK key

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 7 3) Press the ENTER key to select the transducer t

Dakota Ultrasonics 106 1) Press the MENU key once to activate the menu items tab. Press the MENU key multiple times to tab right and the ESC key mul

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 107 8) Use the CLR key to backspace if necessary. 9) Repeat steps 6 - 8 until the Co

Dakota Ultrasonics 108 11.7 Changing the active File - Open The user may have transferred grid/seq templates from a PC to the CMXDL, or setup grids/se

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 109 2) Use the UP and DOWN arrow keys to scroll through the sub menu items until OP

Dakota Ultrasonics 110 5) Press the ENTER key to activate the confirmation screen. 6) Press the OK key to load the file from memory. 7) Press the

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 111 2) Use the UP and DOWN arrow keys to scroll through the sub menu items until CL

112 CHAPTER TWELVE SETUPS – CREATE, STORE, EDIT, & RECALL 12.1 Introduction to Setups Often times, users are faced with a variety of tasks and app

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 113 Opening a Setup 1) Press the MENU key once to activate the menu items tab. Pre

Dakota Ultrasonics 114 4) Use the UP and DOWN arrow keys to scroll through the setups until the target setup is highlighted. 5) Press the ENTER key

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 115 Saving a Setup 1) Press the MENU key once to activate the menu items tab. Press

Dakota Ultrasonics 8 Performing an Auto Probe Zero (Off Block) Coating Probe Identified Coating Probe Not Identified 1) Be

Dakota Ultrasonics 116 5) When the parameter to edit is highlighted, press the ENTER key to activate the Alpha Edit Box. 6) Use the UP,

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 117 10) Press the ENTER key to activate the Setup List Box. 11) Use the UP and DOWN a

Dakota Ultrasonics 118 12.4 Deleting a Saved Setup This option allows a user to delete setup files that were previously saved and no longer needed. I

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 119 3) Press the ENTER key to display the Setups List. 4) Press the UP and DOWN arrow

Dakota Ultrasonics 120 Using the Default Setup 1) Press the MENU key once to activate the menu items tab. Press the MENU key multiple times to tab

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 121 12.6 Selecting a Language The CMXDL is equipped with a language option. Currently

122 CHAPTER THIRTEEN USING THE UTILITY SOFTWARE 13.1 Computer System Requirements DakView will run on many different operating systems: Windows 98 (1

124 APPENDIX A - VELOCITY TABLE Material sound velocity in/us sound velocity m/s Aluminum 0.2510 6375 Beryllium 0.5080 12903 Brass

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 125 Tin 0.1310 3327 Titanium 0.2400 6096 Tungsten 0.2040 5182 Uranium 0.1

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 9 Performing a Manual Probe Zero (On Block) Note:

126 APPENDIX A - SETUP LIBRARY Num Name Comment 1 Gn/AGC Velocity 1 Enter Custom Name 2 … 3 … 4 … 5 … 6 …

127 WARRANTY INFORMATION • Warranty Statement • Dakota Ultrasonics warrants the CMX DL against defects in materials and workmanship for a period of

MATERIAL SAFETY DATA SHEETN/A = not applicable or not available (To comply with 29 CFR 1910.1200)SECTION 1 – PRODUCT IDENTIFICATIONProduct Name: SOUND

Dakota Ultrasonics 10 Coating Probe Identified Coating Probe Not Identified 5) Press the ENTER key to display the confirmati

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 11 Using a Known Thickness Note: Be sure that the p

Dakota Ultrasonics 12 4) Press the ENTER key to display the Digits Edit Box. 5) Press the UP and DOWN arrow keys to scroll the highlighted value. 6

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 13 Performing a Coating Zero 1) Press the MULTI MO

Dakota Ultrasonics 14 6) Use the UP and DOWN arrow keys to scroll through the sub menu items until ZERO COATING is highlighted. 7) Press the ENTER

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 15 quick start section only the 1pt option PECT (puls

Dakota Ultrasonics 16 17) Repeat steps 4 & 5 until the velocity number is correctly displayed. 18) Press the OK key to set the coating velocity

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 17 Important Note: In PECT (pulse-echo coating) mode

Dakota Ultrasonics 18 8) Press the OK key to calculate the coating velocity and return to the menu screen, or ESC to cancel the one point calibration

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 19 2) Use the UP and DOWN arrow keys to scroll throug

Dakota Ultrasonics 20 1) Press the MENU key once to activate the menu items tab. Press the MENU key multiple times to tab right and the ESC key multi

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 21 5) Repeat steps 3 & 4 until the B-START or B

22 CHAPTER THREE KEYBOARD, MENU, & CONNECTOR REFERENCE 3.1 Menu Key (Operation & Sub Menus) The Menu key activates the primary menu

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 23 Activating and Getting Around in the Menu Items 1) Press the MENU key once to acti

Dakota Ultrasonics 24 3.2 Probe – Menu ZERO PROBE: The CMXDL is zeroed in much the same way that a mechanical micrometer is zeroed. If the CMXDL

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 25 COATING 1PT: Performs a single point coating calibration. This option allows the

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION...1 CHAPTER TWO QUICK STARTUP GUIDE ...

Dakota Ultrasonics 26 3.6 SETUP – Menu OPEN: Displays a list of factory and user defined setups currently stored in memory. These setups can be

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 27 CLOSE: Provides the user the ability to close a currently opened grid or sequentia

Dakota Ultrasonics 28 RESTORE SETUPS: Enables the user the ability to restore the setups currently saved on a PC to an CMXDL via RS232 port. Refer t

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 29 3.14 Arrow Keys The Arrow Keys are used to navigate through the menus, incr

30 3.18 Top & Bottom End Caps The top & bottom end panels are where all connections are made to the CMXDL. The diagram above shows the la

31 CHAPTER FOUR PRINCIPALS OF ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT 4.1 Time versus thickness relationship Ultrasonic thickness measurements depend on measuring the

Dakota Ultrasonics 32 through air efficiently. By using a liquid couplant between the transducer and test piece the amount of ultrasound entering the

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 33 V-Path Correction Dual element delay line transducers have two piezoelectric elemen

Dakota Ultrasonics 34 Dual Element Transducer in Echo to Echo mode Echo-Echo Verify Mode – Thru-Verify (E-EV) The echo-echo verify mode measures betw

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 35 Once again, this is a custom hybrid combination mode using special techniques to ef

36 CHAPTER FIVE SELECTING THE MEASUREMENT MODE 5.1 The setup library The CMXDL contains 64 user configurable preset locations to store custom setups f

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 37 Thru Paint & Coatings Often times, users will be faced with applications where

Dakota Ultrasonics 38 Restricted access Measuring materials with extreme curvatures or restricted access, higher frequencies with smaller diameters sh

39 CHAPTER SIX MAKING MEASUREMENTS The steps involved in making measurements are detailed in this section. The following sections outline how to setu

Dakota Ultrasonics 40 In this first example the transducer was automatically identified: Probe Automatically Recognized 1) Press the OK key once to

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 41 3) Press the UP and DOWN arrow keys to toggle the coating option on/off. 4) Wipe

Dakota Ultrasonics 42 6) Press the UP and DOWN arrow keys to scroll through the transducer list until the appropriate type is highlighted. 7) Pres

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 43 6.2 Probe zero The next step is to perform a probe zero. The zero function is a

Dakota Ultrasonics 44 2) Press the OK key to perform the automatic probe zero, or ESC key to cancel the zero operation. Coatin

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 45 Note: When the zero probe option is set to manual, the probe zero disk (battery ca

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION The Dakota Ultrasonics model CMXDL is an ultrasonic thickness gauge that measures with extreme versatility. It has the

Dakota Ultrasonics 46 7) Press the OK key to complete the probe zero function, or ESC key to cancel the probe zero function. 8) Remove the transduce

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 47 1) Press the MENU key once to activate the menu items tab. Press the MENU key mu

Dakota Ultrasonics 48 7) Press the OK key to set the velocity and return to the menu screen, or ESC to cancel entering the velocity. 8) Finally, pre

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 49 Known Thickness Sometimes the sound velocity of a material is unknown. In this cas

Dakota Ultrasonics 50 ESC key multiple times to tab left until the CAL menu is highlighted and displaying the submenu items. 3) Use the UP and DOWN a

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 51 the job. For example, if the measurement range was .080” (2.03mm) to .250” (6.35mm

Dakota Ultrasonics 52 4) Press the ENTER key to display the Digits Edit Box. 5) Press the UP and DOWN arrow keys to scroll the highlighted value. 6

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 53 being tested. Use these values only if a close approximation is acceptable. Follo

Dakota Ultrasonics 54 4) Press the UP and DOWN arrow keys to scroll through the material list until the appropriate material is highlighted. 5) Pre

55 CHAPTER SEVEN USING THE DIGITS & B-SCAN DISPLAYS A key feature of the CMXDL is the ability to toggle between two different display options, Dig

2 CHAPTER TWO QUICK STARTUP GUIDE Turn the CMXDL on and off using the switch located on the bottom right corner of the keypad. When CMXDL is initiall

Dakota Ultrasonics 56 7.1 Display Views DIGITS VIEW DIGITS The Digits view is a basic digital thickness gauge look and feel. The larger digits make

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 57 • Alarm Mode • Gain Setting E. Digital Material Thickness Value – Extra large fo

Dakota Ultrasonics 58 the user would see is a black screen from 0.00” – 1.00” with no view of the bottom contour at 1.75”. The following is a list of

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 59 7.2 Activating B-Scan View To use the B-Scan feature it must be enabled in the disp

Dakota Ultrasonics 60 7.3 Adjusting the B-Scan Start (B-START) & Depth (B-DEPTH) In order to use the B-Scan and Scan Bar features of the CMXDL eff

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 61 Adjusting the Starting Depth (B-START) 1) Press the MENU key once to activate the

Dakota Ultrasonics 62 5) Press the UP and DOWN arrow keys to scroll the highlighted value. 6) Press the LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to scroll the digi

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 63 2) Use the UP and DOWN arrow keys to scroll through the sub menu items until B-DEP

Dakota Ultrasonics 64 7.4 Gain The gain, or amplification of the return echoes, can be adjusted in the CMXDL to accommodate a variety of applications.

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 65 Adjusting the Gain 1) Press the MENU key once to activate the menu items tab. P

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 3 B. Battery Icon – Indicates the amount of battery

66 CHAPTER EIGHT THRU PAINT MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUE 8.1 Introduction to Thru Paint Measurement The principle behind thru paint measurement is by measuri

67 CHAPTER NINE PULSE-ECHO COATING & COATING TECHNIQUES 9.1 Introduction to Pulse-Echo Coating Measurement (PECT) In the previous sections we’ve d

Dakota Ultrasonics 68 3) From the tabbed menus under TUNE, MEASURE MODE. The steps that follow will demonstrate all three methods in the order listed

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 69 3) Press the UP and DOWN arrow keys to toggle the coating option on/off. Multi

Dakota Ultrasonics 70 3) Press the ENTER key to enable the coating option, or ESC to cancel changing the measure mode, and return to the main measure

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 71 9.3 Zero Coating In order to account for very slight electronic differences in tran

Dakota Ultrasonics 72 5) Press the MENU key once to activate the menu items tab. Press the MENU key multiple times to tab right and the ESC key mult

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 73 9.4 Coating Calibration (PECT) Known Velocity If the coating velocity is known, the

Dakota Ultrasonics 74 3) Press the ENTER key to display the Digits Edit Box. 4) Press the UP and DOWN arrow keys to scroll the highlighted value. 5

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 75 Known Thickness Sometimes the sound velocity of a coating material is unknown. In

Dakota Ultrasonics 4 2.2 Auto Probe Recognition When the CMXDL is initially powered up, the gauge will automatically check to see if the transducer pl

Dakota Ultrasonics 76 and place the transducer in steady contact with the coating and sample or actual test material. Be sure that the reading is sta

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 77 Note: CHECK YOUR CALIBRATION! Place the transducer back on the calibration point.

Dakota Ultrasonics 78 One Point Calibration Note: Use the maximum coating sample for the one point calibration first. 1) Physically measure the thi

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 79 3) Use the UP and DOWN arrow keys to scroll through the sub menu items until COATI

Dakota Ultrasonics 80 Two Point Calibration Note: Use the minimum coating sample for the two point calibration. 1) Physically measure the thinner o

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 81 3) Use the UP and DOWN arrow keys to scroll through the sub menu items until COATI

82 CHAPTER TEN ADDITIONAL FEATURES OF THE CMXDL 10.1 High Speed Scan The High Speed Scan feature of the CMXDL increases the overall repetition rate to

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 83 4) Press the MEAS key to return to the measurement screen. 10.2 Alarm Mode The Ala

Dakota Ultrasonics 84 Setting the Alarm Low Limit 1) Assuming the ALARM is ON, use the UP and DOWN arrow keys to scroll through the sub menu items

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 85 6) Repeat steps 4 & 5 until the ALARM LOW value is correctly displayed. 7) If

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 5 3) Press the UP and DOWN arrow keys to toggle the

Dakota Ultrasonics 86 3) Use the LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to toggle the DIFFERENTIAL on. A value will appear to the right of DIFFERENTIAL. 4) Contin

87 CHAPTER ELEVEN DATA STORAGE – SETUP, EDIT, & VIEW FILES 11.1 Introduction to Grid and Sequential file formats The CMXDL is equipped with two da

Dakota Ultrasonics 88 functionality and structure. The illustrations below are snapshots of typical GRID and SEQ LOG file formats: Grid File Formats

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 89 Creating a Name Grid/Seq Log Name : Can contain a combination of up to 20 numeric

Dakota Ultrasonics 90 Grid Log Sequential Log 4) Press the ENTER key to display the new Grid or Seq Edit Box. 5)

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 91 9) Use the CLR key to backspace if necessary. 10) Repeat steps 6 - 9 until the Gri

Dakota Ultrasonics 92 3) Use the UP, DOWN, LEFT, & RIGHT arrow keys to highlight the appropriate alpha characters. 4) Press the ENTER key to se

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 93 Sequential: The sequential file format can be viewed as a file as a single column

Dakota Ultrasonics 94 Grid Log Sequential Log 3) GRID LOG: Use the LEFT, & RIGHT arrow keys to scroll the Col

CMX DL High Performance Material & Coating Thickness Gauge 95 Grid Log Sequential Log 1) Use the UP and DOWN