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Axe199
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hi, i don't know if this qualifies as a question or not, but this is something i can't really understand.
i am an engineering undergrad, when we are learning about the pros and cons of different method of doing anything , for example maximum power point tracking in PV systems, we discussed a method called perturb and observe, and the main and most important advantage of this method was simplicity but has some serious drawbacks.
The part i don't get , why is it still used, i mean, don't the guys designing these things have years of experience and sometimes masters degrees? surely they can understand the other more complicated better methods. There are other examples for this but this is the one i can remember right now :D.
So to sum up my question, why is simplicity considered an important advantage in industry when it's easily overcome with proper training ( or at least i think so)?
i am an engineering undergrad, when we are learning about the pros and cons of different method of doing anything , for example maximum power point tracking in PV systems, we discussed a method called perturb and observe, and the main and most important advantage of this method was simplicity but has some serious drawbacks.
The part i don't get , why is it still used, i mean, don't the guys designing these things have years of experience and sometimes masters degrees? surely they can understand the other more complicated better methods. There are other examples for this but this is the one i can remember right now :D.
So to sum up my question, why is simplicity considered an important advantage in industry when it's easily overcome with proper training ( or at least i think so)?
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