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Help from someone preferably experienced in Vacuum Furnaces, more specifically Consarc.
Now to the point, right now at work we have an issue with a Furnace, I've managed to work out (after hours of wasted time leak detecting) that what is happening is at the pumps there is an Electronic Vacuum Gauge (more importantly a Vacuum Gauge meant for another Furnace however one of the Engineers swapped it over). This Gauge is not reading the correct pressure and is therefore sending the 'wrong' information to the PLC which automates the Mechanical Blower, currently the lowest the Gauge reads the Furnace reaching is 4.4 x 10^+2mbar, the PLC needs to read 1.2 x 10^-1mbar to kick in the Mechanical blower. Now I know for a fact that the Furnace is well below that 4.4 x 10^+2mbar because the liquid-filled pressure gauge which is definitely working correctly is reading it's minimum (-1) which means it's below 9.9 x 10^-1.
The problem I have is that the engineer in my maintenance department...the expert on all things to do with our factory, and the man who switched these gauges, is on his holidays and is sick of being 'abused' and called in from his holidays so he's in a huff really and won't accept our calls and so on. I'm only his apprentice however it would seem I understand a lot more about the problem than the rest of the maintenance team currently here, I've tried explaining but they simply don't understand...or don't trust my verdict because of my experience and won't do anything about it, so the boss is going crazy because of lost production time and what not. My question to you guys is: There's a 'trip' on the Gauge where you can alter it manually with a terminal, should I alter it to read the correct pressure/at least read below 1.2 x 10^-1mbar. And also just to confirm with myself, does my theory sound viable? :hippy:
Now to the point, right now at work we have an issue with a Furnace, I've managed to work out (after hours of wasted time leak detecting) that what is happening is at the pumps there is an Electronic Vacuum Gauge (more importantly a Vacuum Gauge meant for another Furnace however one of the Engineers swapped it over). This Gauge is not reading the correct pressure and is therefore sending the 'wrong' information to the PLC which automates the Mechanical Blower, currently the lowest the Gauge reads the Furnace reaching is 4.4 x 10^+2mbar, the PLC needs to read 1.2 x 10^-1mbar to kick in the Mechanical blower. Now I know for a fact that the Furnace is well below that 4.4 x 10^+2mbar because the liquid-filled pressure gauge which is definitely working correctly is reading it's minimum (-1) which means it's below 9.9 x 10^-1.
The problem I have is that the engineer in my maintenance department...the expert on all things to do with our factory, and the man who switched these gauges, is on his holidays and is sick of being 'abused' and called in from his holidays so he's in a huff really and won't accept our calls and so on. I'm only his apprentice however it would seem I understand a lot more about the problem than the rest of the maintenance team currently here, I've tried explaining but they simply don't understand...or don't trust my verdict because of my experience and won't do anything about it, so the boss is going crazy because of lost production time and what not. My question to you guys is: There's a 'trip' on the Gauge where you can alter it manually with a terminal, should I alter it to read the correct pressure/at least read below 1.2 x 10^-1mbar. And also just to confirm with myself, does my theory sound viable? :hippy:
