Emerson Process Management 5300 manual Changing a Probe, Probe and Firmware Compatibility

Reference Manual

00809-0100-4530, Rev BA July 2009

Rosemount 5300 Series

CHANGING A PROBE

Probe and Firmware Compatibility

Table 7-1. Compatibility between probe type and firmware version

Transmitter heads with a firmware version earlier than 1.A4 (manufacturing date before 2008-06-18) are not compatible with HP/HTHP/C probes marked with R2.

Transmitter heads with a firmware version 1.A4 or later are compatible with HP/HTHP probes without the R2 marking when the Trim Near Zone function is performed, as illustrated below.

Only probes with the VC marking are compatible with the Dynamic Vapor Compensation function. See Appendix C: Advanced Configuration to determine if the Dynamic Vapor Compensation function is supported by the transmitter head.

Compatibility Between Probe Types and Firmware Versions

Firmware Version		Probe Type
Standard	HP / HTHP without	HP / HTHP / C with	HTHP with both
	R2 marking	R2 marking only(1)	R2 and VC marking(1)
		R 2	R2
		R 2	R2
		R	R2
		2	VC

R	R2
2	VC

Firmware version earlier	Yes	Yes	No	No
than 1.A4
Firmware version 1.A4	Yes	Yes(2)	Yes	No
Firmware version 2.A2 or	Yes	Yes(2)	Yes(3)	Yes(4)
later

(1)The R2 marking is on the housing seal or the adapter as seen in the figure.

(2)Trim Near Zone function is required.

(3)When Dynamic Vapor Compensation is not used.

(4)The probe requires that Dynamic Vapor Compensation is activated in the device for full functionality.

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