Calibrating a Fisher™ 3582 Positioner - Beam Alignment

hi I'm Jim Jones with Emerson in this video I'm going to show you what you may need to do before you calibrate this Fisher 3582 pneumatic positioner of course we want to always make sure we review and are familiar with all of the safety precautions and procedures found in the instruction manual for the 3582 positioner okay the positioner has already been properly mounted onto this Fisher 6 5 7 size 40 I direct-acting actuator we've hooked up the air supply and made sure the regulator is set to the proper pressure in this case 20 psi and we've installed the air line from the positioner to the actuator so let's first identify the components of the positioner that we'll be working with the D shaped beam here is the summing beam and is the component this flapper assembly moves around on notice the summing beam is labeled direct over here and reverse over here the cam which is attached to the rotary shaft feedback arm is behind the summing being down here at the bottom this cam labeled a is the linear cam make sure the arrow on the cam points in the direction of actuator stem travel on this direct acting actuator increasing diaphragm pressure drives the stem down so the arrow must point down the nozzle is located right here the bellows is behind the beam and in the upper right corner there are two pins and one screw that we will adjust in this initial setup procedure one pin is directly above the nozzle and it's called the beam pivot pin the other pin is located just in front of the bellows and is called the bellows pivot pin the screw we will adjust is on the flapper assembly we want to make sure that the beam is totally to the nozzle so the flapper approaches the nozzle squarely to do that we may need to do a beam alignment now if you have a brand new 3582 positioner you shouldn't need to do this beam alignment procedure but it doesn't hurt to check it commonly you will need to check beam alignment if the positioner has been rebuilt and any components replaced if the positioner is to be split ranged or the positioner is acting in a non-standard way step one is to loosen the locknut around the nozzle turn the nozzle in all the way and then back it out for complete turns step 2 increase the input signal to the middle of the input range in other words on a 3 to 15 psi input take the pressure to 9 psi step 3 move the flapper assembly to place it over the cam down here at position 0 now check the rotary shaft arm if the index marks on the arm are not aligned with the ones on the case adjust the follower assembly screw until the marks are aligned when they are parallel tighten the locknut on this assembly this will be the only time we will need to adjust this screw now in step 4 we move the flapper assembly to the number 10 on the direct side of the beam check the feedback arms if they are not parallel adjust the bellows pin using an eighth inch wrench until they are go to the reverse side and check the arms again if they are not parallel adjust the beam pivot pin above the nozzle you may need to repeat this direct 10 reverse 10 procedure a few times until there is no movement in the arms and they stay parallel regardless of where the flapper assembly is placed if the arms don't move when the flapper assembly is on either side of the summing beam beam alignment is complete just make sure all the lock nuts are tightened the only thing left to do now is to zero and span the positioner but I'll show you how to do that in another video so the first part of calibrating a Fisher 3582 positioner is making sure the beam is aligned with the nozzle and we can do that in just four easy steps first turn the nozzle all the way in and then out for complete turns next set the input signal to the middle of its range then move the flapper assembly over the cam and adjust the flapper assembly screw to align the feedback arms step four is to move the flapper assembly from direct ten and then to reverse ten to align those arms using both the bellows pin and the beam pivot pin finally when you're all done tighten up the lock nuts and that's it visit Fisher.com to learn more about the Fisher 3582 positioner or to contact your local Emerson sales representative thanks for watching

Channel: Fisher Valves & Instruments

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Length: 5min 31sec (331 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 26 2016

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