Fast Heat's CableXChecker: The Hot Runner Cable Testing System.
The CableXChecker® solves every-day maintenance problems with hot runner cable testing and connector wiring. Invented by a maintenance professional for maintenance professionals!
- Saves Maintenance Time! - The old way of checking for opens, miswired zones and shorts takes forever! A standard 24-pin cable requires a 576 point-to-point test to diagnose a problem and to ensure proper wiring. The CableXChecker® saves about 15-minutes per cable!
- Ensure 100% Accurate Testing - It's too easy to make a mistake the old way due to small pins, tight spacing and hard-to-read zone labels. No more skipping steps or incorrectly diagnosing opens, miswires or shorts.
- Check for open or miswired heater and thermocouple zones.
- Check for shorts.
- Rewire a connector.
- If doing it by yourself, you have to put the cable between your legs, put your meter in audible mode and precisely touch the matching pins for each zone -- and you have to know the wiring diagram! If a zone were miswired, you would have to touch every other pin in the connector to find which pin is miswired.
- 576 point-to-point test manually checking for continuity, between the zone-1 pin and any other pin that it is not supposed to be in circuit with zone-1 (depends on wiring diagram), if there is continuity then there is a short. Once zone-1 is verified, then you have to go to zone-2 and touch every other pin that is not supposed to be in circuit with it; then zone-3, zone-4, etc. You would have to know the wiring diagram.
- To rewire a connector, once the controller side of the cable is wired, you would have to manually probe zone-1 pin and then every wire on the mold side until you find continuity. Then do that for every zone.
- Simply turn the dial through each zone’s hot and return position. If there is an open zone, the zone will not light up. If a zone is miswired the wrong zone will light up.
- Simply turn the dial through each zone and where there is a short the CableXChecker® will light up the extra zones.
- Use the probe to touch any wire on the mold side and the CableXChecker® will light up the zone it should be wired to.
As used by MoldTrax for hot runner repair training.
Why the CableXChecker®?
Don’t know your wiring diagram? No problem, the CableXChecker® is unique to the marketplace because each tester is customized to your specific wiring diagram standards. Simply plug your cable into the mounted connectors and test each individual zone in both thermocouple and heater cables by using the dial on the instrument panel to rotate through each zone. Bright blue LEDs will light-up in the order of the wiring diagram. If a problem is detected, the LED will not light, indicating an open in the cable. If more than one LED illuminates, there is a short in the cable. A test lead is also included to make connector re-wiring a breeze and to probe for pushed back pins and other problems in the connector insert.
Traditional cable testing methods are tedious and time-consuming.
- Labor Intensive: A standard 24-pin cable requires a 576 point-to-point test to diagnose a problem -- and a 576 point-to-point retest after a repair.
- Potential Operator Error: Test lead needs to be placed with surgical precision . Connector pin numbers are small and hard to read.
Each CableXChecker® is custom built to match the cables used in your molding operation. In an instant, you can test your cables for continuity, miswired zones, and shorts. You can also:
- Save Time: A single standard 24-pin cable can be tested in less than a minute.
- Get Customized: The CableXChecker® is the only cable tester available that is specifically built to your wiring and connector standards -- and configured to test both heater and thermocouple cables.
- Simplify Your Repair Process: Pushed-in pins and problem zones are quickly identified with the easy-to-use test lead. Then retest your connections during the repair process.
- Get Mobile: Powered by a 9v battery and outfitted with a travel handle, the highly portable CableXChecker® can be anywhere you need it to be.
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Spark Industries LLC
242 Waterfall Drive
Elkhart, IN 46516
Phone: 574-606-4243
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