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Page 14: Choosing a pid setting strategy

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Watlow Series 935B User’s Manual

Choosing a PID Setting Strategy

You may rely solely on the Auto-tune

[`Aut]

function (p. 34) 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 manually.

The Series 935B PID Menu is the first sub-menu you encounter after moving to the Operations Menu. The PID Menu
provides a software 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 935B 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. 20.

• 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. 5, or Setting Up Inputs and Outputs, p. 22.

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