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4 Connecting to power supply
SOLITRAC 31 • Four-wire 4 … 20 mA/HART
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If inductive loads or stronger currents are switched through, the gold
plating on the relay contact surface will be permanently damaged.
The contact is then no longer suitable for switching low-voltage
circuits.
Inductive loads also result from the connection to a PLC input or
output and/or in combination with long cables. It is imperative that you
take measures to extinguish sparks to protect the relay contact (e.g. Z
diode) or the transistor or 8/16 mA output.
4.4 Connection - Summation
To measure the level in very high vessels, multiple instruments can be
cascaded.
Cascading means that two or several instruments are connected
which can together cover a longer measuring range.
The instrument acts as Primary and all other instruments operate as
Secondaries.
The pulse rates of all instruments are summed in the Primary instru-
ment and converted into a common signal.
The Primary instrument must have the function "Level". For this pur-
pose, select under the menu item "
Setup - Application
" the function
"Level".
Set the address setting (MGC) on the Primary instrument to "99".
For this, the Secondary instruments must be defined as "Summation
Secondary". Select under the menu item "
Setup - Application
" the
function "Summation Secondary".
The address setting (MGC) on the Secondary instruments can be
freely selected. Only the address "99" is reserved for the Primary
instrument.
Note:
Make sure that all instruments are using the same software version.
Software version 2.0 is not downward-compatible.
Connect the instruments according to the following wiring plan:
Connection to a PLC
Electronics and connec-
tion compartment - sum-
mation
