Hello,
We have 15 Endress & Hauser Cerabar PMC731 Pressure transmitters with error number 110 and we hope someone can guide us to fix them.
According to the guide, the error is in the electronic board and we tested this with a healthy board and it was correct.
Does anyone have experience repairing the electronic boards of these transmitters?
What is the main reason for the failure of these boards?
Many thanks in advance for your help.

 

I'll speculate that if the failure is the electronics card with the 4-20mA/HART, Profibus or Foundation Fieldbus communications, then I'd guess that near lightning strikes take out the electronics due to long cable runs' ability to pickup induced voltage from the lightning. But it's speculation.

 

May it starts working after we reset it by a Hart communicator?

 

Probably not, but what do have to lose by trying that?

 

Probably not, but what do have to lose by trying that?

Unfortunately factory reset couldn't solve the problem. Any idea for repairing?

 

If E&H doesn't tell you how to fix it, then you're on your own.

Pressure transmitters have two typical failure modes. Either the pressure sensing element fails or the electronics fails.

If you have enough faulty transmitters you can swap electronics modules with a known good pressure sensor to test the electronics modules or swap pressure sensor modules with a known good electronics module so you'll know what's good and what's bad and what can be used a spare part.

Good luck fixing bad electronics - I doubt that there's any public documentation.