Emerson Process Management 1500 manual Optional Transmitter Configuration, Chapter, 6.1Overview

Chapter 6

Optional Transmitter Configuration

6.1Overview

This chapter describes transmitter configuration parameters that may or may not be used, depending on your application requirements. For required transmitter configuration, see Chapter 4.

The following configuration parameters and options are described in this chapter:

•Special measurement units (see Section 6.4)

•Cutoffs (see Section 6.5)

•Damping (see Section 6.6)

•Update rate (see Section 6.7)

•Flow direction (see Section 6.8)

•Events (see Section 6.9)

•Slug flow (see Section 6.10)

•Fault handling (see Section 6.11)

•Digital communications settings (see Section 6.12)

•Variable mapping (see Section 6.13)

•Device settings (see Section 6.14)

•Sensor parameters (see Section 6.15)

6.2Default values

Default values and ranges for the most commonly used parameters are provided in Appendix A.

6.3Parameter location within ProLink II

For information on parameter location within the ProLink II interface, see Appendix C.

6.4Creating special measurement units

If you need to use a non-standard unit of measure, you can create one special measurement unit for mass flow and one special measurement unit for volume flow.

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