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JustinAW
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I am somewhat familiar with a PID controller and how it operates. But I am having a hard time interpretting my PID controller setting and getting them to do what I want. I figured I would open up here for some help.
I have a copper cylinder that is being heated up with a band heater. in the center of the cylinder I have the thermocouple. Both are hooked up to my PID controller. Because of the lag due to conduction I would like my Temperature curve to approach the limit and slow down. More like an asymptote and less like a damping sine wave. My current setting get to the temperature fine but then way over shoot it and it takes a while to cool back down. This is not Ideal for the experiments I want to run with it.
Below are my settings options:
Proportional band setup :_____ in Celsius
Proportional Gain setup :_____ no units provided
Integral time setup :_____ in seconds
Integral Gain setup :_____ no units provided
Derivative rate setup :_____ in seconds
Derivative rate Gain setup:_____ no units provided
Power output control :_____ percent
I have a copper cylinder that is being heated up with a band heater. in the center of the cylinder I have the thermocouple. Both are hooked up to my PID controller. Because of the lag due to conduction I would like my Temperature curve to approach the limit and slow down. More like an asymptote and less like a damping sine wave. My current setting get to the temperature fine but then way over shoot it and it takes a while to cool back down. This is not Ideal for the experiments I want to run with it.
Below are my settings options:
Proportional band setup :_____ in Celsius
Proportional Gain setup :_____ no units provided
Integral time setup :_____ in seconds
Integral Gain setup :_____ no units provided
Derivative rate setup :_____ in seconds
Derivative rate Gain setup:_____ no units provided
Power output control :_____ percent