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Watlow Series 935A User’s Manual

Choose the PID Strategy

You may rely solely on the Auto-tune

[`Aut]

function (p. 32) and factory defaults to determine PID values for your system, or you may

use auto-tuning and additional manual adjustments. You must select dead band

[``db]

and calibration offset

[`CAL]

values manu-

ally.

The Series 935A PID Menu is the first sub-menu you encounter after moving to the Operations Menu. The PID Menu provides a soft-
ware location to select the individual heat or cool proportional band, hysteresis, and cycle time values; and the dead band, integral,
derivative, and calibration offset values.

To go to the PID Menu:

1.

Go first to the Operations Menu by pressing

.

and

,

simultaneously for three seconds.

2.

Scroll through the Operations Menu with

,

until you see the

[`Pid]

prompt.

3.

While pressing

ß

to display

[``no]

, choose

[`YES]

with

.

or

,

.

4.

Release

ß

to see the first PID prompt.

NOTE: Access to the PID Menu and the prompts there varies with lockout function and output set-up. The PID Menu is
locked out when the 935A leaves the factory.

Lockout function; the Lockout Tag

[`tAg]

function masks menus from view (if you cannot see a prompt, you can make no

change). See Using Lockout Functions, p. 18.

Output set-up; you must choose

[hEAt]

or

[COOL]

in either Output 1 or Output 2 to have access to the PID Menu. With a

[hEAt]

only choice,

[COOL]

prompts are not visible, and vice versa. See the Valid Output Functions Table, p. 3, or Setting Up Inputs and

Outputs, p. 20.

NOTE: Proportional Band, Integral, Derivative, Dead Band, and Calibration Offset values are adjustable in whole or tenth
°F or °C, depending on input type

[``In]

and

[`C_F]

Celsius/Fahrenheit Configuration Menu choices.

Learn the PID Menu