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News Release from: Vishay Nobel | Subject: RFS 3
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 08 August 2002
Purpose-built roll force measurement
system
A new brochure from Thermo Nobel highlights the benefits of the RFS 3 purpose-built roll force measurement system.
A new brochure from Thermo Nobel highlights the benefits of the RFS 3 purpose-built roll force measurement system Designed specifically for use on both new and existing rolling mills, the system provides the mill operator with the continuous monitoring and display of roll separating force and differential balance forces
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 18 Apr 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Roll force measurement system fits old and new
The RFS 3 system from Thermo Nobel is a purpose-built roll force measurement system, designed specifically for use on both new and existing rolling mills.
Continuous monitoring and display of mill forces
Vishay Intertechnology has announced the availability of the Vishay Nobel RFS 3 system.
In addition, it also provides local and remote indications of 'metal in mill' and 'mill overload'.
Signal outputs representing the rolling mill forces on each side of the mill that are being measured by the system are supplied for the operation of remote indicators or for use by external control systems.
The system is designed to retrofit on to existing rolling mills that have no load measurement facilities and where the fitting of load cells is either impossible or prohibitively expensive.
It uses the principle of extensometers fixed to the mill stand, where the sides of the mill stand then become the load cells.
The system utilises four Thermo Nobel high performance signal transmitters, AST 3P and two or four Thermo BLH Type E-4 semiconductor extensometers.
The four AST 3P units communicate using Modbus RTU protocol, via the master unit to pass force and status details to all units.
Each unit thus has all the force values to enable it to show the four computed values - 'work side', 'drive side', 'sum' and 'difference'.
Each one can be configured to output via its analogue port for either 0-10V, 4-20mA or 0-20mA to represent any of the computed values.
Trip levels can also be configured to energise relays at preset values and referenced to any of these computed values.
There is also built-in redundancy so that if a transducer is damaged or has an incorrect output, its value is ignored, an error light and signal is generated and the complimentary transmitter doubles its output to make up for the missing one The two or four Model E4 extensometers are connected via either one or two junction boxes to the RFS 3 unit.
Special high temperature cable is used to wire the extensometers to the junction box, while stainless steel braid armoured cable is used from the junction box to the unit. Request a free brochure from Vishay Nobel ...
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