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5 HART Transmitter Configuration
5.1 Overview
Each new STT700 Temperature Transmitter configured for HART protocol is shipped from the factory
with a basic configuration database installed. This basic configuration database must be edited or
revised to meet the requirements of your process system. The process in this section assumes that you
will use the
Field Device Communicator (FDC)
application for HART configuration tasks. The
FDC
application provides the facilities for the online and offline configuration of transmitters operating with
HART protocol
Online configuration requires that the transmitter and MC Toolkit are connected and communication
between the two have been established. Online configuration provides a set of functions with which to
perform various operations on a HART communication network through an active communication
link. These operations primarily include configuration, calibration, monitoring, and diagnostics.
Typically, these operations could be realized through various constructs exposed by the Device
Description (DD) file. In addition, the
FDC
application provides some functions for convenient
execution of these functions.
Offline configuration refers to configuring a device when the device is not physically present or
communicating with the application. This process enables you to create and save a configuration for a
device, even when the device is not there physically. Later when the device becomes available with
live communication, the same configuration can be downloaded to the device. This feature enables you
to save on device commissioning time and even helps you to replicate the configuration in multiplicity
of devices with lesser efforts. Currently, FDC does not support creating offline configuration.
However, it supports importing of offline configuration from FDM R310 or later versions. The
configurations thus imported can be downloaded to the device from FDC.
The following are the tasks that you need to perform for importing offline configuration in FDC
application software and then downloading it to the device.
1.
Create offline configuration template in FDM
2.
Save the configuration in FDM in FDM format.
3.
Import the offline configuration in FDC
4.
Download the offline configuration to the device
Note:
For details on creating and using offline configuration, refer to section Offline configuration in-
FDM Offline Configuration User’s Manual, 34-CT-25-01.
5.1.1 Personnel Requirements
The information and procedures in this section are based on the assumption that the person
accomplishing configuration tasks is fully qualified and knowledgeable on the use of the MC Toolkit
and is intimately familiar with the STT700 SmartLine Temperature Transmitter. Therefore, detailed
procedures are supplied only in so far as necessary to ensure satisfactory configuration. The other
HART configuration ools are Honeywell Experion in conjunction with FDM, DTMs running on FDM
or PACTware, and Emerson 375/475.
