Re: [Emc-developers] PID musings

2012-01-13 Thread andy pugh
On 13 January 2012 06:05, Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com wrote: I will have to try negative D values to see what they might do. D might want to be negative or positive, depending on what you are trying to achieve. You can use it to help catch a fast-moving setpoint (positive D) or to reject

Re: [Emc-developers] PID musings

2012-01-13 Thread Karl Cunningham
On 01/12/2012 10:05 PM, Jon Elson wrote: I was just perusing some of the EMC docs, and wound up on the PID hal component docs and source. I have never quite understood the behavior of the D term. To (over) simplify: error = commanded - feedback errorD = error - previous error output =

Re: [Emc-developers] PID musings

2012-01-13 Thread Jon Elson
Karl Cunningham wrote: I assume from your results there is a typo in the feedback -- it should have been 4.9 this cycle and 4.8 last cycle. So Terribly sorry, YES, that is what I MEANT to type! If I'm missing the boat, please let me know. Maybe I'd better refrain from doing even SIMPLE

Re: [Emc-developers] V2.5 documentation - issues

2012-01-13 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 1/7/2012 7:28 AM, John Thornton wrote: Hi Kent, Are you reading the HTML or the PDF? The HTML is easier to convey which file your reading and that makes it much easier to find and fix any errors. Thanks for proof reading them. Thanks John Hi, John. Once again I'm in the position for

[Emc-developers] V2.5 documentation - issues with HAL manual

2012-01-13 Thread Kent A. Reed
Gentle persons: This message covers editorial issues I found reviewing the HTML files on http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/2.5/ concerning the (English) HAL manual. In this email I shall call them parts. I have titled my comments on each part according to the link title in index.html and given the