Hi John, on the Fury, the proportional part you describe is roughly the same as EFC Scale. The integral part is PHASECO. Fury can happily run with correct frequency output with PHASECO set to 0, but the phase offset would be large, and slowly changing over time. The EFCS (proportional part) makes sure the frequency is correct, and the PHASECO (integral part) makes sure the phase error is "integrated out" to 0.0ns. hope that helps, bye, Said In a message dated 7/27/2010 18:37:20 Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
> I read the article on PID on Wikipedia last night. I do not fully > understand it, but I see/learning some of the relationship. Here's a very quick primer: Consider a very simple control position servo loop: Pos. Input --- + (SUM)--- PID --- AMP > --- MOTOR ===== Output Pos |- || | POS Sensor | | ----------------------------------- If you put an upwards step into the Pos Input the output of the SUM goes up. This is applied to the AMP via the PID network and the MOTOR stasrts up, turning the output shaft. As the Output shaft turns, the position sensor output rises. That subtracts from the commanded position in the SUM, reducing the AMP input. Thats how the P = Proportional signal drives the loop to null. However, in order for the motor to turn some non-zero voltage needs to be applied. As the SUM output approaches zero the motor drive ceases and the loop never reaches null. So the I = Integral term is added. If the loop stops just shy of null, the SUM output will not be zero. The I Integrator takes the near-null voltage and integrates it (Vsum dT) which will eventually rise sufficiently to drive the motor to null. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
