Banner Wireless for Affordable Remote Level Monitoring
In an ideal world, every plance you need to install a transmitter would have easy access to electrical power.
But we don't live or work in an ideal world, and there are locations where level measurement is critical, but power isn't readily available — and getting electrical power to those arease is quite costly.
Banner Engineering's DX80 FlexPower wireless node radios are designed to provide power for periodic monitoring at extended intervals. A Banner gateway in the control room reproduces the transmitter reading as a 4-20 mA signal, which is easily handled by the control system.
- Works with transmitters that have 4-20 mA output (see tested models below)
- Transceiver pairs replace a single signal cable (save up to $90/foot)
- General purpose, non-hazardous field nodes shown here with single D-cell integral battery*
- Intrinsically safe models only available with single D-cell battery pack
- To avoid draining radio battery, the level transmitter should be configured under DC power, then connected to the field node radio
- Systems require a pair: One field node radio and a DC-powered Banner gateway (in the control room); Each comes with low gain antenna, but can be upgraded based on your specific application needs
| Level Transmitter (Tested Models) | Description | Update/ Report Interval |
Expected Battery Life |
Field
Node Radio | Gateway (DC Power) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intrinsically safe level transmitters, loop powered, 4-20 mA output required, with intrinsically safe field node radios. | |||||
| Siemens SITRANS LR250 | 25GHz radar for liquid level | 20 minutes | 125 days | 20178 | 17441 |
| Siemens SITRANS LR560 | 40m model only, 78GHz radar for dry solids | 20 minutes | 277 days | 20178 | 17441 |
| Siemens SITRANS DS-III | Gauge and differential pressure ranges | 1 minute 5 minutes 10 minutes 15 minutes | 74 days 392 days 740 days 1111 days | 20178 | 17441 |
| General purpose level transmitters, loop powered, 4-20 mA output required. with general purpose field node radios. | |||||
| Siemens SITRANS Probe LU | Ultrasonic level, 6M range | 15 minutes | 105 days | 18088* | 17441 |
| Siemens SITRANS Probe LU | Ultrasonic level, 10M range | 15 minutes | 116 days | 18088* | 17441 |
| Siemens SITRANS DS-III | Gauge and differential pressure ranges | 1 minute 5 minutes 10 minutes 15 minutes | 74 days 392 days 740 days 1111 days | 18088* | 17441 |
| Submersible level transmitter | Any brand, general purpose | 5 minutes | >2 years | 18088* | 17441 |