Carrier provides fast integration of intrinsically safe isolator barriers

R. Stahl has introduced the pac-Carrier 9295 — a space-saving integration solution for the company’s 12 mm ISpac intrinsically safe isolator barriers. The ISpac devices and the pac-Carriers are suitable for seamless use in decentralized installations due to approval for use in Zone 2 and Class I, Div. 2.

The pac-Carrier can also be used for functional safety applications up to SIL 3. The carrier is said to significantly simplify the installation and wiring of the isolators into the controllers’ (PLC/DCS) I/O cards from numerous manufacturers.

Prefabricated connecting cables reduce the risk of wiring errors, while the installation labour is reduced by up to 40% thanks to the tool-free mounting of the ISpac isolators, the company says.

The integration system is suitable for projects involving a high number of channels. The carriers are available in 8- and 16-slot versions, thereby enabling up to 32 signals to be connected.

The R. Stahl variant with 8 slots is 110 mm wide. An additional HART multiplexer coupling requires 36 mm of extra space. The 16-slot version further increases the channel density.