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Old 05-15-2018, 04:15 PM   #3257 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by MPaulHolmes View Post
They call them economizers I think. I've never made my own economizer before though. Make sure you reduce Kp and Ki by the same proportion that you increase the voltage. So, if your test was at 50v, and you increase the DC voltage to 150v, you would decrease Kp and Ki by a factor of 3 when running the controller at around 150v.
Thanks, I knew they had a name! And yeah I'll have to remember to scale by 3 when changing the voltage, but for now I'm going to stick with 50V. I'm gonna double check my connections later and try to get to the point where I can so run-pi-test2 and get valid results every time.
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