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5.2 Operating State
Refer to Appendix A for a flow diagram of the operating state. The 8800P is powered ON
by pressing the ‘Power’ button until a beep is heard; to activate the backlight, continue to
depress the ‘Power’ button until the backlight turns on. Keep in mind that with the back-
light on the unit consumes about 5 times more power.
Upon power up the unit performs certain initialization tests (see section 9), and enters
the ‘Operating State’, in the Viewing Dewpoint mode. Depressing the ‘Mode’ button will
change modes in the following order: Viewing Dewpoint
➜
Viewing Sensor Temperature
➜
Start Autocal
➜
Viewing Serial Number
➜
(back to) Viewing Dewpoint. The unit will
return to Viewing Dewpoint mode if no buttons are pressed for 30 seconds, unless it is
performing Autocal.
5.2.1 Viewing Dewpoint Mode
In this mode the user can view the dewpoint, signified by the presence of the ‘DEW-
POINT’ legend on the lower left of the display. The available engineering units in which to
view the moisture content are °C, °F, PPM, LBS and G/M
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; the up and down buttons
scroll back and forth through these units in respective order. The °C and °F are dewpoint
readings. The ppm is parts per million by volume computed at the sensor pressure (more
about pressure later). The Lbs and G/M
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are pounds of water per million standard cubic
feet and grams of water per standard cubic meters, both in Natural Gas, they are com-
puted according to data derived by IGT Research Bulletin 8, taking into account sensor
pressure.
A short press of the ‘pressure correct’ button toggles the unit in and out of pressure cor-
rect mode. When there is no pressure correction applied the PSI legend does not
appear. The PSI legend flashes at the bottom of the display, when there is pressure cor-
rection in the computation of the displayed values.
Pressure correction is used in the context that the values displayed signify the moisture
content at some pressure (we refer to this as the ‘Gas Pressure’) different than the pres-
sure at the sensor. Note that PPM, LBS and G/M
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readings are by definition unaffected
by pressure correction because only the pressure at the sensor affects their value. While
°C and °F are affected by pressure correction by reporting what the dewpoint would be at
the Gas Pressure when the dewpoint is what is measured at the pressure at the sensor.
However, this also implies that whether pressure correction is applied or not the PPM,
LBS and G/M
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readings are affected by the setting of the sensor pressure.
Sensor pressure is used in the context that this is the pressure inside the sampling
chamber when performing the measurement.
Gas pressure is used in the context that this is the pressure to be used in computing
what the dewpoint would be at a pressure different than the one in the sampling cham-
ber.
A long press of the Pressure Correct button, while in the pressure correct mode (flashing
PSI legend), changes the unit to the View/Set Sensor Pressure sub-state. The display
has the ‘SET’ and ‘PSI’ legends on and alternately shows
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and the currently set value
for the sensor pressure. The up and down buttons allow the user to modify the sensor
pressure, while a short press of the pressure correct button toggles the Sensor Pressure
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