Honeywell Basis Weight
Sensor
Sensor introduction and
maintenance
For internal purpose only
Objectives
After this training, you will be able to :
- Identify and understanding part that include at the assemblies of
the basis weight sensor and what it’s function.
- How to check the sensor healthy and understanding what the
variable include.
- Troubleshooting
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Overview
Basis weight is defined as weight (mass) of paper per
unit area. In Da Vinci Quality Control System we use
the unit of measurement grams per square meter
(GSM).
Honeywell has several sensor depend on the basis
weight range and Ash range
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Measurement principles
The Basis Weight sensor measure weight of paper
using the beta emitting sources as Promethium-
147 , Krypton-85 or Strontium-90.
The energy that given by the source will be
measured by receiver and change it to voltage.
The basic physical principle is : as the basis
weight increases, the signal at receiver will be
lower.
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Sensor introduction
Sensor has two part.
• Source (normally upper head) is contain a
radiation source.
• Receiver (lower head) is contain an ion
chamber and a amplifier to measure the
radiation received and sent voltage to PMP
to be convert to basis weight value
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Source assembly
Shutter assembly
And
Shutter position switch
Flag Motor
Air solenoid
Radiation Capsule
Flag Assembly
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Source check
Important thing to remember from Basis weight source
1. Basis weight source using air controlled by solenoid as
way of opening the shutter.
2. Air will go to regulator and controlled by air solenoid.
3. The shutter will be on “CLOSE” position during power off
4. The solenoid wiring connected to radiation lamp for safety,
if one red lamp is broken than the solenoid will not working
5. Flag move by electric solenoid
6. During working with source, pay attention to shutter
condition
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Receiver Assembly
The receiver assembly
consist of :
• Ion Chamber
• Receiver Power Supply
• High Voltage / Low
current inverter
• Detector Amplifier
• Receiver Microswitch
• Backplane with testpoint
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Receiver block diagram
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Basis Weight Sensor Receiver Backplane
TP# Label
TP1 RTN
TP2 +24
TP3 RCVR
RTN
TP4 +12
TP5 -12
TP6 -350
TP7 BW
Signal
TP8 T1 (N/A)
TP9 T2 (N/A)
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High Voltage Current Inverter
The card is used to convert
+12 VDC from receiver
power supply into -350
VDC that used in Ion
chamber.
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Receiver Power Supply
The card is used to
convert +24VDC to
12VDC. It has fuse F1 for
the 24VDC input
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Detector Amplifier
Sensitive Card
HANDLE WITH UTMOST CARE
NO TOUCH WITH BARE HAND
The detector amplifier card uses the 12VDC to
amplify current from Ion chamber and very sensitive
to stray electronic signal.
R4 is used to set the background level
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Detector amplifier gain
According to the
role to amplify
the current from
ion chamber, the
det amp card
has gain jumper
to adjust basis
weight signal as
per requirement
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Sensor Operation - Background
Background
- Sensor put off sheet, then system will
measure the basis weight signal.
- This will be known as background volt
- During this operation, the basis weight emits
no radiation
- The typical value is 16 until 50 mV
- If the voltage is too big, adjust the R4 on the
detector amplifier card
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Sensor Operation – Reference / Standardize
Background
- Sensor put off sheet, then system will
measure the basis weight signal.
- This will be known as background volt
- During this operation, the basis weight emits
no radiation
- The typical value is 16 until 25 mV
- If the voltage is too big, adjust the R4 on the
detector amplifier card
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Sensor maintenance Display
Check this value :
• Bkgd volt < 50mv
• Air volt > 4 (recommend)
• Flag volt < air volt
• Dfrac < 1
Using sensor maintenance we can
determine which problem that we
might have.
Air volt = reading during shutter open
Flag volt = reading during shutter open
and flag goes in
Dfrac = TOFA comapare with FAnow
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Preventive maintenance
For preventive maintenance do following stop when
have time (ex. During stop)
- Clean and check kapton window conditon
- Check air pressure, check source hose condition for
any air leakage
- Check red – green lamp at radiation indicator
- Do background operation (30x), check for stability
- Do reference operation (30x), check for stability
- Do sample check using mylar sample
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Replace detector amp/high voltage card , need
to check Faratio , if dfrac > 0.1 change T0FA
T0FA ( Time zero flag to air ratio)
Dfrac = Faratio/ T0FA
Recipe maintenance
NSPXX Calibration
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