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Vessel installations, Struts – VEGA VEGAPULS 43 Profibus PA User Manual

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VEGAPULS 43 – Profibus PA

Buildup

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Inflowing material

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Inflowing material

Do not mount the instrument in or above the
filling stream. Ensure that you detect the
product surface and not the inflowing mate-
rial.

Buildup

If the sensor is mounted too close to the
vessel wall, product buildup and other de-
posits on the vessel wall cause false echoes.
Position the sensor at a sufficient distance
from the vessel wall. Please also note chapter
"3.1 General installation instructions“.

Mounting and installation

Vessel installations

Vessel installations, such as e.g. ladders,
often cause false echoes. Make sure when
planning your measuring location that the
radar signals have free access to the meas-
ured product.

Vessel installations

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Ladder

Ladder

Struts

Struts, like other vessel installations, can
cause strong false echoes that are superim-
posed on the useful echoes. Small baffles
effectively prevent a direct false echo recep-
tion. These false echoes are scattered and
diffused in the surrounding space and are
then filtered out as "echo noise“ by the meas-
uring electronics.

Struts

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Shields