10. ACCESSORIES
10.1
Units of measurement & instrument
identification.
New BA364NG Counters are supplied with a printed
scale card showing the units of measurement and tag
information specified when the instrument was
ordered. If this information was not supplied a blank
scale card will be fitted which can easily be marked
with a dry transfer or a permanent marker on-site.
Custom printed scale cards are available as
accessories and may be easily fitted as shown in
section 5.4 of this manual.
The BA364NG can also be supplied with a blank or
custom laser engraved stainless steel legend plate -
see Fig 7. The plate, which after installation is visible
from the front of the instrument, is supplied loose with
two fixing screws for securing it to the rear of the
instrument's back-box. This plate can typically
accommodate:
1 row of 5 alphanumeric characters 10mm high
or 1 row of 6 alphanumeric characters 7mm high
or 2 rows of 10 alphanumeric characters 5mm high
10.2 Backlight
The BA364NG Counter can be supplied with a factory
fitted backlight that produces green illumination
enhancing display contrast and enabling it to be read
at night or in poor lighting conditions. The backlight is
internally powered from the instrument power supply
so that no additional wiring or intrinsically safe
interface is required, but the supply current increases
as shown below.
Maximum
current
consumption
Without backlight
10mA
Additional for backlight
16mA
Addition with terminals 3 & 4 linked
6mA
Addition with terminals 7 & 8 linked
6mA
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Total current
38mA max
10.3 Alarms
The BA364NG Counter can be supplied with
factory fitted dual alarms. Each may be
independently configured as a rate display or total
display, high or low alarm. with a normally open, or
a normally closed solid state output.
Configurable functions for each alarm include
adjustable setpoint, alarm delay time and alarm
silence time. Hysteresis may be applied to rate
alarms.
WARNING
These alarm outputs should not be used
for critical safety applications such as a
shut down system.
When the BA364NG power supply is turned off or
disconnected, alarm outputs will open irrespective
of whether normally open or normally closed
outputs have been selected. When designing a
system an open output should therefore be chosen
for the alarm condition.
Alarm annunciators on the instrument display
indicate the status of each alarm. If an alarm delay
or silence time has been selected the annunciator
will flash during the delay or silence period.
The BA364NG internal counters are up-dated and
compared with the alarm setpoint twice per
second, irrespective of the display update time
selected. This may result in an alarm being
delayed for up to half a second after the rate or
total has exceeded the setpoint.
10.3.1 Solid state output
Each alarm has a galvanically isolated single pole
solid state switch output as shown in Fig 14. The
outputs are polarised and current will only flow in
one direction. Terminals A1 and A3 should be
connected to the positive side of the supply.
Ron
=
less than 5
+ 0.7V
Roff
=
greater than 1M
Note:
Because of the series protection diode
some test meters may not detect a closed
alarm output
Fig 13 Equivalent circuit of each alarm output
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