Sor Inc.

Xiqing Ma

John M Donnelly

Arthur David Womack, Jr

Prabhaharan Kumarakulasingam

Mark Stephen Bartrum

A process control instruments includes a sensor for sensing a process variable in a processing environment, and a switch, a gauge, and a transmitter. The sensor, switch, gauge, and transmitter, a controller to which each of the stated and related components are connected, are powered via a two-wire power loop. In particular, the two-wired power loop also comprises the transmitter, such that the controller, upon receiving information indicative of the level of a variable being sensed by the sensor, modulates the amplitude of the current on the two-wire loop to a level corresponding to the level of the processed variables sensed. Each of the switch, gauge, and transmitter are independently scalable. In the preferred embodiment of the invention, a pair of switches in the form of relays are provided, and a logic circuit operates to power the components of the invention, with the exception of the relays, when the process variable being sensed with within a selected range. When, however, the process variable being sensed dips below the lower threshold(s) or rises above an upper threshold(s), the logic circuit operates to provide power to the components of the invention through a relay corresponding to the threshold reached.

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