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News Release from: Tyco Thermal Controls | Subject: MoniTrace 200N
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 18 February 2005
Reduced wiring costs for industrial
trace-heating
MoniTrace 200N is an advanced multi-circuit trace-heating control and monitoring unit that can reduce wiring costs in industrial process temperature maintenance and frost protection applications
MoniTrace 200N, from Tyco Thermal Controls, is an advanced multi-circuit electronic trace-heating control and monitoring unit that can reduce wiring costs in industrial process temperature maintenance and frost protection applications It is designed for integration with Tyco Thermal Controls' proprietary heating cable systems, which are marketed under the Raychem, Pyrotenax and Isopad brands, and supported by Tracer, the company's engineering arm
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 16 Apr 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Each MoniTrace unit can control up to 130 trace-heating circuits and monitor up to 130 temperature inputs and offers localised and series-communication to minimise wiring costs and complexity.
Heating cable circuits are operated using remote module controls (RMCs), typically located in trace-heating distribution panels.
Each RMC unit can be configured for 2 to 32 relay outputs, which are wired directly to heating cable power contactors.
Control modes include surface sensing, ambient sensing and also the company's proprietary proportional ambient sensing control (PASC), which can be used to control a group of trace-heating cables to the same pipe-temperature based solely on ambient temperature.
PASC offers the advantage of eliminating flow path considerations and minimising the circuits required - delivering additional savings by reducing the circuit breakers, panel space, wiring and controllers.
This provides a simpler and more reliable system.
MoniTrace 200N monitors a series of up to 16 remote monitoring modules (RMMs) that each has inputs for eight 3-wire temperature sensors.
These are located close to temperature sensing locations in either normal or hazardous areas.
Instead of hard-wiring every temperature sensor all the way back to the control, sensors can be wired to local monitors and series-linked for communication back to the MoniTrace control unit through the same RS-485 cable.
Because RMMs are local to the temperature sensors and RMCs are local to contactors in distribution panels, wiring cost and complexity can be reduced significantly.
The entire system can be monitored/managed remotely from a central PC using MoniTrace supervisory software.
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