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Controller Features
• LCD touch-screen interface display operator control panel with 8’ cable
• Target vs. actual set point verification
• Inventory accumulation for all ingredients
• Audible and visual alarms
• Auxiliary alarm contact
• 50 recipe storage book
• Three (3) types of recipe entry procedures available:
• Quickset mode (up to 6-component) recipe entry. Color and additives
are metered as a percentage of the virgin material.
• Percentage mode recipe entry. Ingredients are metered as a
percentage of the overall batch.
• Parts mode recipe entry (i.e. 500:1) Ingredients are metered as a ratio
to each other within the batch
• Full control diagnostics
• Serial printer and RS-485 communications ports
Figure 3: Blender Controller shown with Mitsubishi Touch Screen