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Sunday, February 18, 2007

Significance of Current Loop 4 to 20 mA Standard

Subject: delabs comments - Tell Me.
message: why 4-20mA standard. why not 2-22mA or any thing else

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they knew you would come up with a question like this.

so see this page en.wikipedia.org--4-20_mA

crouse-hinds.com--intrinsically_safe--4-20mA

tell your friends about it too too, at least we need to share knowledge.

...transmitting 0mV or 0mA will be lost in the noise too. 4mA is enough power to go over long wires with low error due to leakages. and current ensures RFI-EMI immunity as the picked noise does not have any juice just some voltage.

Hence it could be 4-20mA not mV. 0-20mA is not good enough, but is used when you just have to interface two cards or instruments close by. 4-20 mA can go from your street to the next or even much more depending on cables and voltage.

delabs


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