Hello Lode,
My name is Stacy and I am a Design Engineer here at Easy Composites.
Let me tackle your questions one at a time so we can get you up and running.
Firstly the font on the screen can appear slightly different to that in the manual as we have been unable to find an exact match for our printed manual. This is something we are trying to improve at the moment. Your display is correct, the font used by the controller displays an upper case 'I' in a similar way to an upper case "C" as you stated.
If you refer to page 18 of you manual entitled "Running the Oven" there is an explanation of basic single temperature operation, but I will walk you through these steps in more detail from a completely cold start. Firstly, please power off the oven so we are starting from a known point.
- Power up the oven and switch on both the red heat switch and the green fan switch.
- Wait for the screen to boot up (~5 seconds), when this is complete the current temperature and the target temperature will be displayed.
- Use the 'up' and 'down' arrows to change the target temperature to your desired value.
- Press the 'tick' key to select this temperature. The oven will now heat up to that temperature. (If the target temperature display is flickering, it means that the temperature has not been accepted, to rectify this press the 'tick' again)
The oven has 2 alarms that can operate.
- Alarm 1 is the sounding alarm that you mentioned hearing. This alarm is triggered if the actual temperature inside the oven is greater than the set point. This has a tolerance of 5°C and an in-built delay to allow for minor fluctuations. For example, if the set point is 120°C, the alarm will sound if the oven reaches 125°C. You can trigger this alarm accidentally by lowering the temperature of the oven significantly when it is at a high temperature, or by setting a temperature below the ambient temperature in the room.
- Alarm 2 is a silent alarm, this only illuminates the red alarm indicator light on the controller. This alarm is triggered if the oven temperature is more than 5°C below the set point. This will therefore illuminate whilst the oven is heating up. It is nothing to worry about, it is just for advice.
The oven controller we use has customized externals specifically for our oven but does have standard industrial temperature controller internals. The reason we do not supply the full programming schematics is that this is vast and extremely complex, most of which is not required during normal operation. We therefore elected to give instructions as to carrying out specific tasks pertinent to running the oven in a composites environment. One recommendation, if you find yourself 'lost' in the menus at any point, keep advancing and you will eventually lop back to the start. If you are still stuck, power down the oven and restart it and begin again
We can supply a digital manual for our oven by email. We don't offer a digital download as all our ovens are serialized and the manuals are tied to each oven individually. If you require a digital copy, please email:-
technical@easycomposites.co.uk and they will arrange this for you.
Hopefully this will help you get up and running, but should you have any further questions, please ask.