Hart Transmitter Configuration For St 700 Basic Transmitter; Overview - Honeywell ST 700 User Manual

16 HART Transmitter Configuration for
ST 700 Basic Transmitter

16.1 Overview

Each new ST 700 Basic SmartLine Pressure Transmitter configured for HART protocol is shipped
from the factory with a basic configuration database installed. This basic configuration database must
be edited or revised to meet the requirements of your process system. The process in this section
assumes that you 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 creating a configuration template when the device is not physically
present or communicating with the application. This process enables you 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 you to save on device commissioning time and even helps you to replicate the
configuration in multiplicity of devices with lesser efforts. Currently, FDC does not support creating
offline configuration.
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 ST 700 family of SmartLine Pressure Transmitters. Therefore,
detailed procedures are supplied only in so far as necessary to ensure satisfactory configuration. The
other HART configuration Tools are Honeywell Experion in conjunction with FDM, iDTMs running
on FDM or Pactware, and Emerson 375/475. The organization of Device Configuration and
Parameter Descriptions on page 35 is provided in Table 12.
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