Chapter 7. Foundation Fieldbus Communications
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Communications Options User’s Guide
7.2 Configuration Utility Setup
The following is an example setup using National Instruments Configuration Utility v3.1.
Figure 48 below shows the Configuration Utility with a flowmeter on the network (Panemetrics Flow-XMT).
Figure 48: Configuration Utility Setup Example
Note:
The following procedures assume that the device has been placed in the OOS (out-of-service) mode before
executing.
7.3 Selecting the Desired Measurements
To set the measurement unit for each AI:
1.
Double click on the
FLOW
Transducer Block (in the tree under
GEFlow-XMT
).
2.
Select the
Others
tab and open the drop down list for the
PRIMARY_SELECTOR
through
6th_SELECTOR
(refer to
3.
Choose the unit from the list (see Figure 49 on page 67).
This unit will correspond to the unit that is available in the AI block for network connection. The
PRIMARY_SELECTOR
unit will correspond to
ANALOG_INPUT_1, SECONDARY_SELECTOR
to
ANALOG_INPUT_2,
and so forth up to
6th_SELECTOR
and
ANALOG_INPUT_6
.
