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Old 2008-06-30, 2:20pm
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Default Please help me program my Jen Ken kiln!

I have been garaging and annealing my beads with a schedule I copied from another post but some beads have cracked and perhaps it has to do with my program. I have a program suggested to me that will work well with DH glass and silver glass but I just can't figure out the programming (just learning here)
I have a small AF3P Jen Ken with the 3 button controller. I only use Moretti Glass.

This is what I want it to do:

Garage at 890 and hold for 8 hours
Ramp up to 920 in 15 minutes and hold for 1.5 hours
Ramp down to 800 for over 2 hours
Hold for 15 minutes and off.

OK, this is how I programmed it but I am not sure I've done it right and I'd hate to make some beads and discover them cracked or on the floor of the kiln as puddles of glass

Ra1 = FULL oF1 = 890 Hld1 = 8:00

Ra2 = 120 oF2 = 920 Hld2 = 1:30

Ra3 = 60 oF3 = 800 Hld3 = 0:15

Ra4 = 0000

Did I program it right?
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Old 2008-06-30, 3:12pm
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I have a jen ken and it looks right to me.
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Old 2008-06-30, 3:17pm
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Thank you squid!
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Old 2008-06-30, 3:54pm
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Sorry to hijack but can one of you make me understand how to move on to the next cycle when I decide I don't want to work as long as I originally programed? I hit the up arrow twice and it gives me the skip abbreviation but nothing happens after that to show me it has moved on to the next step. Am I being impatient and needing to give it a few minutes to do something or does it just keep showing the skip abbreviations? Many thanks in advance!
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Old 2008-06-30, 4:35pm
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Assuming you have an orton controller, you hit the up arrow once and it will display the SSTP and then you hit the program button - it will display the step it is on - and then hit the program button again.

So it's Up, Program, Program.
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Old 2008-06-30, 5:15pm
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If you have a Bartlett controller you hit the middle button untill it shows SSTP then hit the left button.
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Old 2008-07-01, 7:22am
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Huh.
I never knew that. (there's LOADS I don't know about my kiln)
I'd just stop the cycle, and reprogram with a 30min soak time and go to 'red1" again.

I'll try the SSTP next time.
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Old 2008-07-02, 4:48pm
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Many thanks!
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Old 2008-07-02, 6:10pm
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