Type EC 10 Multifunction process calibrators for electrical signals

SIKA multifunction process calibrators have been developed to make your calibration and maintenance tasks easier and more flexible. Different test sequences can be completed in one run without changing instruments, which saves time. SIKA's multifunction simulators combine the functions of different individual instruments in one device.

The main areas of application are:

• Service, maintenance and repair
• Quality assurance
• Test laboratories and research
• Measurement and control technology
• Process industry
• Energy supply
• Mechanical and apparatus engineering

as well as many other areas.

The backlit multifunction display is used for clear and unambiguous display of input and output values as well as all settings made. In addition to the widely used operation by means of rubber keys, there is also the convenient, menu-guided operation via function keys, navigation cross and numeric keypad. This also allows more extensive functions to be mapped and activated very easily.

If a periodic call-up is required, an automatic program run is generated. The signal type, duration and value can be defined. A possibly desired start delay, the number of repetitions as well as a continuous, linear ascending or descending course can be specified individually.

Frequently required signal values can be stored in the simulator in a fixed or flexible manner and quickly called up at the push of a button. If a discontinuous course with changing signal values is to be generated, the synthesizer function helps. Previously programmed, changing signal heights are output at the simulator's output. This makes it easy to define a wide variety of staircases, ramps or synthesizer values and call them up one after the other, which is helpful when fulfilling the test task.

If the characteristic measurement properties and deviations of a probe are known and are available in the form of a calibration certificate, they should also be taken into account during a measurement in order to achieve exact measurement results. By means of offset programming, the simulator input can be shifted linearly and thus approximated to the existing measurement curve of the probe. This one-point adjustment is the simplest and best known way to improve the measurement results. If higher demands are made on the measuring accuracy, a multi-point adjustment is the best option. Here, the input is ideally adapted to the real sensor curve by means of four linearization points and linearity errors are compensated. Up to five different adjustment sets can be stored directly and called up easily.

In measurement technology, ideal, linear characteristic curves are often taken as a basis. In the real world, however, sensors, transmitters,