Sitrans Rd500 Components; Recommended Field Instruments; System Hardware - Siemens SITRANS RD500 Operating Instructions Manual

SITRANS RD500 Components

Recommended Field Instruments

The RD500 is ideally suited to work with any instrument offering a current (4 to 20),
voltage (0 to 10), digital, pulse, RTD, Modbus serial, or thermocouple output.
Siemens supplies many products including level, pressure, temperature, flow, and
weighing instruments that are ideally suited for monitoring your applications and will
easily connect to the RD500 to provide remote data management functionality to these
instruments.
The RD500 is not limited to Siemens instruments but also readily accepts outputs from
any of your existing instrument infrastructure that support the above mentioned I/O.

System Hardware

For more information on connection to RD500 modules, please refer to RD500 hardware
manuals, available at www.siemens.com/sitransRD500.
RD500 Application
The application is stored on the RD500 onboard memory while the expandable
CompactFlash offers storage capacity for datalogging and saving configuration.
Due to the nature of Flash memory, it is best to also have backup of your
Note:
configuration and send data files to a remote server or other backup media.
Data is compiled and stored in CSV (comma separated value) files, as requested by the
on-line user through the web interface. The database stores up to 2 GB of historic data.
Based on typical usage, 2 GB could store years of data.
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