Handling the Adjusting Program

You can determine the braking values by an adjusting program.

The adjusting program:

The adjusting program is a procedure inserted in the Intarsia knitting program which brings to use all yarn carriers before the start. The yarn carriers work on the same needle in order to get a vertical color stripe. With it you can determine the optimal parking position of the yarn carriers at the left and right.

I. Activate the adjusting program:

  1. You are signed in as Senior Operator .
  2. The loaded knitting program contains the adjusting program.
  3. The production was started
    1
    Select Set-up pattern in the bottom navigation bar and then directly tap the button to open the Cycle Counter menu in theSetup-Editor.
    2
    Set the cycle counter RS39 to =1 to activate the adjusting program.
    3
    Engage machine.
  1. With the help of the adjusting program, the machine brings the yarn carriers in use in the pattern into knitting positions to be able to determine the braking values.
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    Back to Prepare Machine.
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    Select the yarn carrier to be edited in the dialog.
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    Tap the button.
  1. The dialog for entering the values for the selected yarn carrier is opened.
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    Enter the value for Braking value on the left / Braking value on the right via the virtual keyboard.
    8
    Tap the Áp dụng tất cả giá trị và đóng lại button.
  1. Values are applied and the display is switched back to the previous dialog box.
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    Check the position again when this yarn carrier is knitting the next time
    10
    Select the next yarn carrier in order to determine the braking value.
  1. 16 of the yarn carriers are checked.

Check the parking positions of every yarn carrier with both the knitting directions to the left and right.

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    Select Set-up pattern in the bottom navigation bar.
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    Tap the button.

II. Second part of the adjusting program:

  1. More than 16 yarn carriers are used by the knitting program.
  2. Set-up pattern is selected in the bottom navigation bar.
    1
    Change to Prepare Machine in the bottom navigation bar.
    2
    Check the parking positions of the further yarn carriers and enter a braking value if necessary.
  1. All of the yarn carriers are checked.
    3
    Change to Set-up Pattern in the bottom navigation bar.
    4
    Exit the adjusting program by the button
  1. The knitting program is started automatically.

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First part of the adjusting program

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Second part of the adjusting program:

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Embroidery stitch lines of the intarsia yarn carriers
(vertical line, one needle wide)

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Pattern

The cycle counters RS18 / RS39 will automatically be set to zero.

The braking values will be kept even if the knitting program is deleted from the main memory of the machine.