Hart Transmitter Configuration; Using The Field Device Communicator (Fdc); Personnel Requirements - Honeywell SLG 700 User Manual

3 HART Transmitter Configuration

3.1 Using the Field Device Communicator (FDC)

Each new SLG 700 Level Transmitter configured for HART protocol is shipped from the factory
configured as ordered to meet customer requirements. No reconfiguring should be necessary,
however if changes are desired then this section assumes that the user 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 has 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 the user 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 the user to save on device commissioning time and even helps the
user 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 the user needs to perform for importing offline configuration in
FDC application software and then downloading it to the device.

Create offline configuration template in FDM
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Save the configuration in FDM in FDM format.
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Import the offline configuration in FDC
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Download the offline configuration to the device
Note: For details on creating and using offline configuration, refer to section Offline configuration
in FDM User's Guide.
3.1.1

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 SLG 700 family of SmartLine Level Transmitters.
Therefore, detailed procedures are supplied only in so far as necessary to ensure satisfactory
configuration.
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