Thermopatch NL-28 User manual

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USER MANUAL
NL-28 v.3
 ATTENTION!
All persons involved in installation, commissioning, operation, maintenance, and repair
of this product should be made available to these instructions.
v.1.2 - 05/21

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Copyrights
© 2021 Thermopatch bv, Almere, The Netherlands.
No part of this publicaon may be reproduced by any means without the prior wrien permission of
Thermopatch bv, The Netherlands. Thermopatch and the Thermopatch logo, Thermo-Seal™ and
Thermocrest are registered trademarks of Thermopatch.
Introducon
Dear User,
Welcome to the growing group of Thermopatch users.
Your purchase has been manufactured with the utmost care to ensure that you benet as long as possible
from your Thermopatch product.
The products by Thermopatch are designed with special aenon to your convenience. Should you
discover any fault or damage upon receipt of this product, please contact your local Thermopatch vendor.
The manual has been prepared in accordance with NEN 5509 and in conformity with the Machinery
Direcve 2006/42/EC.
This user manual is intended not only for all users of the machine, but also for those who install and main-
tain the NL-28 v.3. The goal is to familiarize you with the operaon, to provide for safe working instrucons
and guidelines for periodical maintenance.
ATTENTION!
In order to make safe and opmal use of the NL-28 v.3 it is important to take noce of -
and understand the contents of this manual.

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Index
Copyrights 2
Introducon 2
Contents 3
1. General descripon 4
1.1 Delivery 4
1.2 Condions of Warranty 4
2. Intended use 4
3. Operang instrucons 5
3.1 Installaon 5
3.2 Operang the NL-28 v.3 6
3.3 Using the control panel 7
a Pressing me 8
b Temperature seng 8
c Item counter 8
d Presets 9
e Sengs 9
List of alarms/events 11
4. Overview of safety measures and warnings 12
4.1 Safety 12
5. Technical specicaons 13
5.1 Specicaons of the NL-28 v.3 13
6. Transport and storage 14
6.1 Transport 14
6.2 Storage 14
7. Maintenance 15
8. Technical annexes (English) 16
Troubleshoong 17
Drawing 01 Image with details 18
Drawing 02 Electrical diagram 19
9. End of life 20
10. Declaraon of conformity 20
11 Disclaimer 21

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1. General descripon
The NL-28 v.3 is a praccal and universal heat seal press with a sliding and reversible sealing pad for opmal
use. Texle labels, company emblems, repair patches, transfers, in short all Thermopatch materials for
marking and repair are easily and permanently pressed on all types of fabric.
1.1 Delivery
The NL-28 v.3 is mounted onto a pallet and covered with a plywood box.
The following arcles are included:
• NL-28 v.3 heat seal machine
• Power cord
If one of these arcles should be missing or faulty, please contact your Thermopatch supplier.
1.2 Condions of warranty
Thermopatch points to its warranty and product liability condions as laid down in our general terms and
condions. These can be obtained at your Thermopatch supplier.
2. Intended use
The NL-28 v.3 is a heat seal machine that is intended for the applicaon of heat seal transfers but also
repair patches, heat seal emblems and labels. In short, all Thermopatch marking and mending materials
can be applied with the NL-28 v.3.
WARNING!
Any use other than described above can be dangerous and cause damage
and thus qualies as ‘misuse’ which excludes Thermopatch bv from any liability.

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3. Operang instrucon
3.1 Installaon
Unpacking
• Remove the press from its packaging.
• Place the machine on its operang locaon.
• For carrying the press, ensure that the press is cold and move the press by holding the two plates
(top and boom) at the same me (closed press).
• Remove the screw labelled « Transport security » before opening the press.
• Plug the machine into the electrical mains (230 Volt grounded / 50 - 60 Hertz).
Clamping handle (2)
Control Panel (1)
Sliding plate (7)
180° Reversable
Lower platen (6)
Pressure
Adjustement wheel (3)
Electromagnet
Heang platen (4)
Silicone rubber
Sliding plate handle (5)

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Choosing the working direcon with the reversible lower plate
This press is standard equipped with a reversible lower plate (180 °), allowing you to put a T-shirt or other
garment either from the front or the back of the plate.
To reverse the direcon of the support:
• Loosen and remove both knobs between the support and the lower plate,
• Reverse the support,
• Replace and ghten both knobs again under the lower plate
3.2 Operang the NL-28 v.3
• Switch on the press by pressing the power switch located
at the rear.
• Adjust set point temperature.
• Adjust sealing me.
• If desired, set the preheang me.
• Adjust the pressure (according to the type of transfer).
• Place the garment on the lower plate.
• Place the transfer.
• Once the heang plate has reached the desired temperature,
close the machine with the handle.
• When the machine is closed, the mer starts running.
• At the end of the sealing me, the press will open automacally.
• If you want to interrupt the cycle, you can do it by pushing the stop
buon located on the control panel: the press will then open
automacally within 2 seconds.
• Use the handle to slide the lower plate forward and backward.

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3.3 Using the control panel
NL-28 v.3 control panel
The temperature and me are shown on the display.
Presets (d)
Sengs (e)
Current temperature (b)
Stop cycle
Setpoint temperature
Pressing me (a) Counter (c)

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a) Pressing me
Press this menu to set the machine’s pressing me.
Use the le and right arrow keys to increase and decrease this seng.
You can also have two consecuve pressing mes (cf. “Sengs (e)”).
You can also change this seng by pressing the me display and
entering the required me from the touch pad.
Once you have entered the required me, press the conrm key in the
boom right corner of the screen.
b) Temperature seng
Press the temperature menu. You can select the temperature you
require in the same way as for the pressing me, using the arrow keys
on the le and right of the temperature display. You can also click on
the reading and manually select a temperature.
When entering a temperature below 100°C, place a 0 before the
desired value (e.g. 090° C).
Select the material prole you wish to press from the 3 opons
provided (TEXTILE, RIGID and DTG) and press the conrm icon.
c) Item counter
This menu shows how many items the machine has printed.
When you click on this icon, two counters are displayed.
The rst counter shows the paral count. It can be reset to zero by
pressing the arrow to its right.
The second counter shows the total number of items printed since the
machine was installed. This count is permanent and cannot be reset.

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d) Presets
Pressing the Presets icon brings up the menu shown opposite.
Use the le and right arrows to select one of the 5 pre-congured
presets. To use a preset, press the oppy disk icon with the arrow
poinng to the right. Once selected, press the home icon in the
boom right corner to return to the main menu.
To create or alter a preset, you must rst set the me and temperature
from the main screen and then select a memory slot (1 to 5) from the
preset screen. To rename a preset, press the pencil icon.
Give your preset a name and press the arrow in the boom right
corner to conrm. To nish, press the oppy disk icon with the arrow
poinng to the le to save your choice/seng.
e) Sengs
Press this icon in the main menu to go to the machine sengs.
There are 6 available opons.
The rst opon, represented by 2 gear wheels, lets you change the
machine’s technical aspects. Touching this opon brings up another 6
icons.
Lets you choose whether the machine emits a sound each me the touch screen is used.
Lets you enable or disable an alarm when the pressing me is complete.
Lets you choose the unit of temperature: Celsius or Fahrenheit.
Lets you enable another mer for the pressing me.
With this opon enabled, you can alter 2 mes in the pressing me menu.
The le arrow takes you back to the previous menu.
The right arrow takes you to other sengs.

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The other sengs:
To return to the sengs menu, press the le arrow twice.
The last icon is home, which takes you back to the machine’s main menu.
The seng in the top le corner shows that the machine is pressing within the set
temperature range. This range can be set by pressing the icon and entering the 2 required
temperatures. A non-locking warning will be displayed.
It will be ignored during the 2nd pressing and allows the work connue even if the
setpoint is not reached.
The seng at the top right lets you adjust the screen brightness.
There are 3 brightness levels from low to high.
The green leaf icon is used to set energy-saving mode.
The operator can choose:
Aer how many hours and minutes energy-saving mode comes on.
The temperature at which the press switches over (only if it is below the setpoint temperature).
Energy-saving mode is switched o when the screen is pressed.
The board will only switch to eco mode if it is on the home screen. If the user leaves the
press on another screen, the screen is presumed to be in the process of being altered.
The press should not switch to eco mode.
The “i” at the top right provides key informaon about the soware version.
Press the arrow in the boom right corner to return to the previous menu.
The diagnosc buon brings up the machine status so you can see if there are currently
any malfuncons.
The padlock icon can only be accessed by an approved service technician.