Within the European Community, intrinsically safe pressure sensors may only be used in hazardous areas if they’re installed in conjunction with an Ex barrier. The mix of pressure sensor and Ex barrier must meet up with the ?Proof of intrinsic safety? relative to the 94/9/EC ATEX directive. Not all combinations of sensor and barrier from different manufacturers fulfil this condition.
On the one hand, it might be that the safety or Ex characteristic values do not match, however, the functional characteristics must also match the application. So, even if the safety-related data match, the pair of Ex barrier and pressure sensor may not match since, for instance, both components work ?passively?.
(Additional information on the subject ?active?/?passive? are เกจวัดแรงดันลม in your blog article ?Electrical circuitry for pressure sensors: when is a sensor active, and when passive??)
Therefore, you should make sure that you merely use barriers and sensors together whose safety-related data and function-related data match each other. We therefore directly recommend, inside our intrinsically safe pressure sensors? data sheets, a potentially compatible intrinsically safe Ex barrier.
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