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Powering up a Foundation Fieldbus Transmitter

10/10/2008 6:40 AM

I had my first "hands on" experience with FF today. We had to calibrate several FF pressure transmitters in the calibration shop. I thought I would need two FF terminators that would be connected at either end of our temporary network to power up and establish FF communication. I asked a colleague to help us as we didn't have any terminators (I am on a HART project) and he brought a pepperl + fuchs field barrier unit. This causes me to raise two questions, the second being very specific.

(1) Was I correct in assuming that in order to power and enable FF communication, that you need two terminators in your network?

(2) Does the pepperl + fuchs field barrier unit have two terminators built in? If so this would raise another question. Why? I thought the DCS would have one terminator and the second would be in the field barrier.

Any thoughts on these would be GREATLY appreciated!

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Re: Powering up a Foundation Fieldbus Transmitter

10/15/2008 5:11 AM

A fieldbus segment requires two terminators, normally these are located at either extremity. They can be separate devices or built into power supplies or wiring blocks. If you give the Ref No of the P+F Fieldbarrier, we can check whether it has a terminator or not.

If you want to email me offline, I will send you a copy of the MTL-Relcom Fieldbus wiring guide.

Steve
MTL Instruments
www.mtl-inst.com
syates(at)mtl-inst.com

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