Watlow Optimizing Your Process System with the Series 988 Controller - Manual (Page 62)

7.5
Optimizing Your Process System with the WATLOW Series 988
How to Choose the Right 988 to Fit Your Application
A. Determine what software features your process
will require.
B. Determine the process range or ranges that the
software must maintain in the process.
C. Determine what conditioning, if any, is needed
for your input data.
D. Will you use any enhanced software features?
E. Use the information you have just gathered to fill
in the software box in your photocopy of the
worksheet from page 7.10.
Step 4: Software
HELPFUL REFERENCES
Check the software
features you will use.
If you will use any
enhanced software
features fill in a "B",
otherwise fill in an
"A".
General Software Features
auto-tune 3.2
burst fire 3.3
communications 3.4
dead band 3.5
digital event 3.6
heater current 3.7
input filter 3.8
input linearization 3.9
ramp to set point 3.10
remote set point 3.11
retransmit 3.12
slidewire feedback 3.13
Enhanced Software Features
cascade 4.2
differential 4.4
dual PID sets 4.5
duplex 4.6
ratio 4.7
See the filled in worksheets in
Chapter 1, Test Drives.
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