>For some reason, the SCI of 7 (low flow cut-off) doesn't work for me, >even though it's a pretty plain-jane mass meter sending 4-20mA signal >through an FBM 4. Minor correction: I'm at work now and can confirm that it's actually SCI of 10 that we tried to use for low cut-off for this 12800-64000 linear raw count signal. Nonetheless, SCI of 10 does NOT work either, and the reason for that is plain to see when one looks at the logic for SCI=10 in B0193AW: SCI = 10: Linear 12800 to 64000 raw counts with low cutoff IF raw_value <= 12800 THEN converted_value = LSCO1; ELSE converted_value = ((raw_value - 12800) * (HSCO1 - LSCO1) / 51200) + LSCO1; So, there you have it. The low cut-off is ... zero! Duc -- Duc M. Do Dow Corning Corp. Carrollton Plant Carrollton, KY, US -----Original Message----- From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Duc M Do Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 11:10 PM To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [foxboro] just a tip At 04:28 PM 5/18/04 -0400, Jaime Claramunt R. (Inforsa) wrote: >hey list, > >does anybody have a tip for this ... >we have some flowmeters (AIN) that still indicates some when there is no >flow... >this is used then in ACCUM blocks, and I want to find the way to indicate >this block to accumulate only values over a low limit...with limits ? >clamping ? (without hold ...) I don't understand your "without hold ..." comment, but am going to toss out my solution anyway. Here goes.... For some reason, the SCI of 7 (low flow cut-off) doesn't work for me, even though it's a pretty plain-jane mass meter sending 4-20mA signal through an FBM 4. My solution: I tie the close limit switch of the block valve going to this meter to the HOLd parameter of the ACCUM block: valve closes, ACCUM goes into hold and stops accumulating. (Yeah, I know, one of these days the limit switch is going to fail and somebody will have to fiddle with the ACCUM block, but it works well for now.) Hope this helps. Duc _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave