Maintenance and Troubleshooting Manual
Section 2: Troubleshooting
3-9000-764 Rev F
December 2017
Chord A, Chord B, Chord C and Chord D alarm
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2.1.3
Chord A, Chord B, Chord C and Chord D alarm
Chord A, Chord B, Chord C, and Chord D - These alarms indicate how a chord is functioning.
2.1.4
Field I/O alarm
Reports various field I/O devices that are in alarm. Click the
Check Status
button for more details
on specific alarms. The field is grayed out if the Daniel 3810 Series Ultrasonic Flow Meter does
not support this alarm.
2.1.5
Validity alarm
This alarm indicates that the meter may not be measuring accurately. Click
Check Status
to see a
description of which validity alarms are active. The validity alarms
QMeter
and
QFlow
indicate an
issue with the meter collecting enough information from the chords to make an accurate
measurement. The validity alarms for pressure and temperature indicate that the value is above
or below the alarm limits for these values. Red and green are the only colors used for this alarm.
2.1.6
Comms alarm
The Comms alarm indicates that communications between DUI and the meter failed. This could
be due to a poor communication link. DUI continues to retry communications. Red and green
are the only colors used for this alarm.
2.1.7
Communications
The Communications Analyzer (via Daniel MeterLink
Tools> Menu>Communications Analyzer
menu path) displays communications between Daniel MeterLink and the ultrasonic meter. This
utility is useful for troubleshooting communications to the meter. It displays many of the TCP/IP
commands between Daniel MeterLink and the connected meter.
For troubleshooting communications with the 475 Field Communicator for the HART®
Protocol, refer to Section 5 of the
Emerson 475 Field Communicator User’s Manual, Rev D
. This
manual may be downloaded from the following location:
http://www2.emersonprocess.com/en-US/brands/Field-Communicator/Pages/Support.aspx
For troubleshooting communications with AMS Device Manager, refer to the help
documentation and support at the following web site:
http://www2.emersonprocess.com/en-US/brands/amssuite/amsdevicemanager/Pages/AMSDeviceMan-
ager.aspx
LED Color
Problem
Green
No alarms are present. Chord is operating properly.
Yellow
At least one sample in the batch caused an alarm but it did not cause the chord to fail.
The sample will not be used in the batch. Discarding occasional samples can occur
during normal operation such as during flow velocity changes.
Red
The chord has failed or is in acquisition. This chord is not used for this batch. Chords
that have failed or are shown to be in acquisition for repeated batches indicates that the
meter should be inspected by a service technician.
Gray
The chord has manually been set to inactive.