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FBxConnect Configuration Software User Manual

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Contents

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Introduction ............................................................. 1

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Installing and Starting FBxConnect ........................................................................... 1

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User Interface ........................................................................................................... 1

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File Menu ................................................................ 11

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Save As ................................................................................................................... 11

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Save (Offline Mode) ................................................................................................ 16

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Download ............................................................................................................... 16

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Download to Flash .................................................................................................. 21

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Close ...................................................................................................................... 24

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Monitor Menu ......................................................... 25

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Main ....................................................................................................................... 25

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I/O .......................................................................................................................... 27

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Current ................................................................................................................... 28

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HMI Display ............................................................................................................ 29

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History ................................................................................................................... 30

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Alarms .................................................................................................................... 33

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Events .................................................................................................................... 34

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Comm Ports ........................................................................................................... 36

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Configure Menu ...................................................... 43

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Home ..................................................................................................................... 44

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Initial Setup ............................................................................................................ 49

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Engr Units ............................................................................................................... 71

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I/O Setup ................................................................................................................ 74

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Meter Setup ......................................................................................................... 132

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DP Meter .............................................................................................................. 135

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Linear Meter ......................................................................................................... 149

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Fluid Properties .................................................................................................... 169

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Components ........................................................................................................ 176

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PID Loops ............................................................................................................. 216

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Action Blocks ........................................................................................................ 226

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Communications .................................................................................................. 243

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Service Info ........................................................................................................... 283

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Board Info ............................................................................................................. 284

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Firmware Update .................................................................................................. 287

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Warm Start ........................................................................................................... 291

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Cold Start ............................................................................................................. 292

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Calibration ........................................................................................................... 294

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Plate Change ........................................................................................................ 326

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System Power ....................................................................................................... 333

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Time Synch ........................................................................................................... 335

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Security Management .......................................................................................... 349

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EFM Report ........................................................................................................... 353

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CFX Report ........................................................................................................... 356

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History Report ...................................................................................................... 358

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Alarm Report ........................................................................................................ 362

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Event Report ........................................................................................................ 364

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Configuration Report ............................................................................................ 367

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Configuration Comparison Report ........................................................................ 369

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Gas Composition Report ....................................................................................... 371

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Parameter Status Report ...................................................................................... 373

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Diagnostic Report ................................................................................................. 375

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Calibration Report ................................................................................................ 377

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Online .................................................................................................................. 379

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About ................................................................................................................... 380

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Introduction

FBxConnect™ Configuration Software enables you to monitor, configure, and calibrate Emerson's

FB1100, FB1200, FB2100, and FB2200 Flow Computers. FBxConnect is designed for ease of use.

Drop-down lists help to direct selections and data entry.

Installing and Starting FBxConnect

FBxConnect Configuration Software is installed as a part of Emerson Field Tools. For more

information on installation of Field Tools and connecting to a device, refer to Emerson Field Tools

Quick Start Guide (D301703X412).

User Interface

FBxConnect is designed for ease of use. At the top of the screen, FBxConnect utilizes a ribbon-style

tabbed menu to navigate the software. Select a menu and submenu option to display the various

screens of FBxConnect in the display area. The left-side of the screen displays the device status

and communication statistics for the connected device. Click the links below to learn more about

each section of the FBxConnect screen.

Figure 1. User Interface

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Click on the links below for more information on each user interface element:

1.

Menu — Use the Menu to access the screens and wizards used to configure and monitor your

device.

2.

Device Status — The Device Status section provides general information about the connected

device and the connection to the device.

3.

Display Area — The Display Area is the portion of the screen that shows you the configuration

fields for your device based on your menu selection.

4.

Communication Statistics — The Communication Statistics section provides information

about communications sent to and received from the connected device.

1.2.1 Menu

FBxConnect contains a ribbon-style tabbed menu at the top of the screen. Select a menu item to

display a list of options in a submenu. Select an option from the submenu to show that screen in

the display area.

Figure 2. Menu and Submenu

For more information about each menu, select the name of a menu option below:

File Menu — Use the options in this menu to save a device configuration file to your PC, save a

device configuration to flash memory, load a saved configuration to the device, or close the

current connection to the device.

Monitor Menu — Use the options in this menu to view current conditions including flowing

conditions, history, alarms, events, and communication port status.

Configure Menu — Use the options in this menu to configure device parameters, including meter

runs, I/O, fluid properties, history, customizing the display, and running the initial setup wizard.

Services Menu — Use the options in this menu to access utilities and perform maintenance on your

device, such as user management, firmware updates, and calibration.

Reports Menu — Use the options in this menu to collect information and view reports, including

EFM, CFX, fluid composition, history, alarms, events, and diagnostic reports.

Help Menu — Use the options in this menu to view information about your installed version of Field

Tools, and to access the online help system.

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Note

If the submenu extends past the end of your screen, use the arrows located on the sides of the

submenu to view the available options.

1.2.2 Device Status

The Device Status section provides general information about the connected device and the

connection to the device. Information includes the device type, type of connection, device

address, baud rate, and PC communication port.

A picture provides a visual representation of the device type with which you are communicating. A

circle icon is shown to the right of the device image, to provide a quick indication of the

communications status between FBxConnect and the device. When the connection status is

"online", the icon color is green. When the communications have been interrupted, the icon color

is red. When viewing a configuration in an "offline" mode, the icon color is grey.

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Figure 3. Device Status (Serial Port)

Review the values in the following fields:

Field Description

Status

This read-only field shows the status of the flow computer described in the open

configuration file.

Type

This read-only field shows the type of flow computer currently connected.

Link

This read-only field shows the type of communications port used by the current

FBxConnect session.

Comm

Port

This read-only field shows the communications port on the PC used by the

current FBxConnect session.

Note: This field displays only for connections using a serial port.

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Field Description

Baud Rate

This read-only field shows the rate of information transfer over the selected

communications port.

Note: This field displays only for connections using a serial port.

Address

This read-only field shows the address of the flow computer.

Note: This field displays only for connections using a serial port.

IP Port

This read-only field shows the IP port on the flow computer used by the current

FBxConnect session.

Note: This field displays only for connections using an IP port.

IP Address

This read-only field shows the IP address of the flow computer.

Note: This field displays only for connections using an IP port.

User

This read-only field shows the user name currently logged into the flow

computer.

Note: This field displays only for connections using an IP port.

1.2.3 Display Area

The Display Area is the portion of the screen that shows you the configuration fields for your

device based on your menu selection.

Figure 4. Display Area

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1.2.4 Communication Statistics

The Communication Statistics section provides information about communications sent to and

received from the connected device. Information includes the communications status of the

device, number of timeouts, number of errors, and number of buffer overflows.

1.

To view the communications information, select the down arrow in the Communications

statistics frame.

Figure 5. Communication Statistics

2.

Review the values in the following fields:

Field Description

Communication

Statistics Toolbar

Use the buttons in the toolbar to group statistics according to

categories ( ) or alphabetically ( ), and to reset all statistics (

).

Communicating

This read-only field shows the status of communications with the

flow computer.

Messages Sent

This read-only field shows the number of messages sent to the

flow computer from FBxConnect software during the current

session.

Messages Received

This read-only field shows the number of messages received from

the flow computer by FBxConnect software during the current

session.

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Field Description

Retries

This read-only field shows the number of times that messages

have been retried due to failures. A high number of retries can be

an indicator of a problem with your communications channel.

Ack timeouts

This read-only field shows the number or times the flow computer

has failed to acknowledge a message sent from FBxConnect

software.

CRC errors

Each message received from the connected device includes a

Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) component, which is used to

determine if an error has been introduced into the message during

transmission. This read-only field shows the number of times that

a message failed to be validated against its CRC. A non-zero value

can be an indication of a poor transmission channel.

Buffer Overflow

This read-only field shows the number of data link frames that

exceeded buffer size.

1.2.5 Point Picker

In many locations in FBxConnect, you can click browse ( ) to view the Point Picker dialog. The

Point Picker dialog allows you to reference a specific object or parameter in the database. These

are used typically when linking two objects together (like a meter to a station) or when

dynamically assigning an input or output variable to a source (like an analog input to a meter

temperature input).

You can select two different types of references in FBxConnect depending on the field: object

references and parameter references.

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Object References — Sometimes the point picker is used to pick an object reference. In this

case, you are only able to select the object and instance of the object in the first column. For

example, if you are configuring a meter run and are setting the station assignment, you can

only pick which station you wish to assign, not a particular parameter. For object

references, the second and third column of the point picker are not used.

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Parameter References — Sometimes the point picker is used to pick a parameter reference.

After clicking on the object type and instance in the first column, the second column

displays all appropriate parameters for this particular parameter reference. For example,

many parameter references need to be a numeric data type, and so no parameters that are

a character string type are displayed for selection.

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Figure 6. Point Picker

Field Description

Filter

Click

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to change which objects and parameters are displayed. Filters may be

based on object type, measurement type, or data type.

Note: Select No Filter to view all available Objects.

Object and

Instances

Object

A group of configuration settings and calculated or measured

values related to a specific function. For example, all values

associated with the device clock (second, hour, day, etc.) are part

of an Object named Clock. From the first column, click on the

object type you wish to reference.

Instance

There may be one or more occurrences of each type of object with

its own set of configuration settings and values. Each occurrence of

an object is called an instance. For example, there are multiple

instances of the object named Comm, and each instance

represents one of the device’s communication ports. After clicking

on the object you wish to reference, the available instances are

displayed. Click on the instance you wish to reference.

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Field Description

Parameter

One of the configuration settings, calculated values, or measured values that is

a part of the object. Each parameter has a value as well as a set of attributes that

define it, such as data type, R/W access, measurement type, units, and

parameter health. After clicking on the object and instance you wish to

reference, the available parameters are displayed. Click on the parameter you

wish to reference.

Referenced

Parameter

If the point picker is used to pick a parameter reference, you can pick a

parameter directly from the object to which it belongs, or you can pick the

parameter through an object reference in a related object. For instance, to pick

a parameter to assign to an Average object, you can pick the DP Mtr_1 object

and the Station Assignment parameter and then the third column displays all of

the parameters that are available from the Station object that is assigned to DP

Mtr_1. This is useful because even if the station assignment later changes, the

Average object is always associated with DP Mtr_1.

1.2.6 Forward and Back Buttons

FBxConnect gives you the ability to navigate to a new screen to perform additional configuration

changes, and quickly navigate to the previous screen through the use of forward and back

buttons. These buttons are colored blue when they are active ( ) and grey when they are

inactive ( ). These buttons allow you to quickly jump back and forth between screens without

losing your spot in the configuration process. For example:

On the GC Data screen, the GC Configuration Object field has a forward button just to the right of

the field. Select the forward button ( ) to navigate to the GC Config screen and configure the

selected gas chromatograph.

Figure 7. Forward and Back Buttons

After you are done performing changes on the GC Config screen, select the back button ( ) to

return to the GC Data screen.

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Figure 8. Active Back Button

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File Menu

Use the options in this menu to save a device configuration file to your PC, save a device

configuration to flash memory, load a saved configuration to the device, or close the current

connection to the device.

Figure 9. File Menu

The File menu contains the following options:

Save As — Save the current device configuration to a file on your PC.

Save (Offline Mode) — Save changes when modifying a configuration file in offline mode (not

connected to a device).

Download — Load a previously saved configuration file to the connected device.

Download to Flash — Save a previously saved configuration file to the flash memory of the

connected device.

Close — Close the current connection and exit FBxConnect.

Save As

It is good practice to save your configuration whenever you make a change to the device. When

you save a configuration, a configuration file is saved to your PC. This allows you to reload the

configuration if something should corrupt your device.

Note

FBxConnect configuration files only include true values for the R/W configuration parameters. The

R/O output parameters (like calculation results, meter run totals, etc.) are not saved from the

device, and instead are displayed as the default values.

In addition to saving your entire device configuration, you can also save only specific Objects and

Instances by performing a Partial Upload. This is useful when transferring configuration data that

is similar between multiple devices. For example, if all your devices have the same

communications configurations, you can save time by saving only the communications

parameters from a configured device and transfer that data to all the other devices.

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Note

After you create a backup configuration file, you can load it onto a device using Download and

save it to the device's flash memory using Download to Flash.

To save a configuration:

1.

Select File > Save As from the FBxConnect menu. The Configuration Save As dialog displays:

Figure 10. Configuration Save As

2.

Select Browse to open a file explorer window.

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