Section 1: Introduction | Daniel 3818 LNG Liquid Ultrasonic Meter Installation Manual |
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•Ethernet access
•Modbus TCP/IP
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•Analog pressure and temperature inputs
•Daniel MeterLinkTM (a
1.3Acronyms, abbreviations and definitions
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° | degree (angle) |
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oC | degrees celsius (temperature unit) |
oF | degrees fahrenheit (temperature unit) |
ADC | |
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AI | analog input |
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AMS® Suite Device Manager | Asset Management Software - Device Manager |
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AO | analog output |
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ASCII MODBUS | A Modbus protocol message framing format in which ASCII characters are used to |
| delineate the beginning and end of the frame. ASCII stands for American Standard |
| Code for Information Interchange. |
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Backplane board | Backplane board for CPU board, I.S Barrier board, Power Supply, and Acquisition |
| cable connections |
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boolean | A type of data point that can only take on values of TRUE or FALSE (generally TRUE is |
| represented by a value of 1, FALSE is represented by a value of 0) |
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bps | Bits per second (baud rate) |
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cPoise | Centipoise (viscosity unit) |
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CPU | Central Processing Unit |
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CTS | |
| it is okay to transmit data – i.e., the corresponding receiver is ready to receive data. |
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| Send (CTS) input of a transmitter. |
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DAC | |
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Daniel MeterLinkTM | Daniel Ultrasonic Meter interface software |
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DI | Digital Input |
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DO | Digital Output |
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DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
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dm | decimeter |
ECC | Error Correction Code |
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EEPROM | |
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Flash | |
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f3 | cubic foot |
f3/s | Cubic foot per second |
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