
Optosense LLC
USER MANUAL
Design department
SMALL-SIZE EXPLOSIVE GAS MEASURING
SENSOR MIPEX-02-X-X-X.1 X (RX)
ESAT.413347.005 UM
Revision 3.0
January 19th, 2017
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1. INTRODUCTION
This user manual (UM) is intended to describe design and operation of small-sized gas
sensor MIPEX-02 (hereinafter MIPEX-02 or sensor). UM contains basic technical data,
recommendations and other information necessary for proper operation, maintenance and storage
of sensor.
Sensor is intended for automatic continuous measurement of carbon dioxide or
hydrocarbons concentration in hazardous areas atmosphere. Sensor can be used as a part of gas-
analyzing equipment of groups I and II according to IEC 60079-0, IEC 60079-11 in the explosion-
hazardous zones of classes 0, 1, 2 according to IEC 60079-10-1, and Class I, Division 1, Group A,
B, C, D according to UL Std. 913, CAN/CSA Std. C22.2 No.157-92.
Optosense LLC reserves the right to make changes to this manual, excluding
intrinsically safe sensor parameters.
1.1. List of abbreviations
ADC
– Analog-to-Digital Converter.
LEL
– Lower Explosive Limit.
LED
– Light Emitting Diode.
CGM
– Control Gas Mixture.
NDIR
– Non-Dispersive Infra-Red.
UART
– Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter.
CRC
– Cyclic Redundancy Check.
IP
– Ingress Protection.
ASCII
– American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
Hex
– hexadecimal.
1.2. List of terms
Target gas is a gas, which sensor is intended to detect and measure its concentration.
Calibration gas refers to CGM containing that gas, used for sensor calibration.
Any command stated in this UM as <X>, where X stands for a command text consisted of
any number
of characters, must be read and/or sent without the symbols “<” and “>”.