Manual

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Temperature-measuring Analog Modules (1756-IR6I, 1756-IT6I, and 1756-IT6I2) Chapter 6
Process Alarms
Process alarms alert you when the module has exceeded configured high or
low limits for each channel. You can latch process alarms. These are set at four
user configurable alarm trigger points.
•High high
• High
•Low
• Low low
Alarm Deadband
You may configure an alarm deadband to work with these alarms. The
deadband allows the process alarm status bit to remain set, despite the alarm
condition disappearing, as long as the input data remains within the deadband
of the process alarm.
The illustration shows input data that sets each of the four alarms at some
point during module operation. In this example, latching is disabled; therefore,
each alarms turns Off when the condition that caused it to set ceases to exist.
To see how to set process alarms, see
page 210 .
IMPORTANT
Process alarms are available only in applications using floating
point mode. The values for each limit are entered in scaled
engineering units.
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High high
Low low
Low
High
Alarm deadbands
High high alarm turns Off
High alarm remains On
High high alarm turns On
High alarm remains On
Normal input range
Low low alarms turns Off
Low alarm remains On
High alarm turns Off
Low low alarms turns On
Low alarm remains On
Low alarms turns OffLow alarms turns On
High alarm
turns On