I work with quite a bit of dairy. whether it be sour cream, milk (skim, whole, 2%, choc. etc.), ice cream you name it. Currently all of the silos and tanks are using a 4-20mA pressure sensor to detect amount of product in tank. They're all currently scaled the same regardless of product, however specific gravity for each product differs. I've been tasked with scaling the value by each product's specific gravity.
My thoughts on doing this:
1. grab product code of product in tank
2. use correct specific gravity depending on product and multiply the scaled output (gallons) by specific gravity.
Or
Should I be multiplying the counts directly from the pressure sensor by the specific gravity and then spit it into the scaling blocks? I feel the difference won't be be that great if at all. Proper way seems like multiplying the counts but I wanted to run it by here first.
Regards,
Phil
My thoughts on doing this:
1. grab product code of product in tank
2. use correct specific gravity depending on product and multiply the scaled output (gallons) by specific gravity.
Or
Should I be multiplying the counts directly from the pressure sensor by the specific gravity and then spit it into the scaling blocks? I feel the difference won't be be that great if at all. Proper way seems like multiplying the counts but I wanted to run it by here first.
Regards,
Phil