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Let’s look at three ways you can improve your Process Variable signal and ultimately your PID system performance. And let’s start with Number 3 - process variable filtering - because it’s the one everybody turns to first when it should be the last your resort. One of the cool things about the WEG drives is you can send a copy of the process variable to an analog output. Let’s do that so we can see the actual filtered process variable that PID uses. You need to tell the analog output what it is doing and what kind of signal you want it to output. You can also modify the output signal with these if you want to. I connected an oscilloscope here to look at the raw un-filtered analog input and here to view the analog output which is showing us the filtered process variable that PID actually uses. I’m using the exact same hardware as we used in all of the videos in this series. You can learn about that in this video. 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These sections of pipe are clear just so I can show you that effect in action. I’m going to zoom in on those and backlight them to make it easier to see the turbulence. Both of these are empty right now. When I turn the motor on you will see how the stub gets filled and then you will be able to see the turbulence in each pipe. Here we go. Switch to run mode – You see the stub filling up and now you can see the air bubbles dancing around but only up here where the turbulence is. I have a small valve on the inlet pipe so I can inject air into the system to make this easier to see. I’ll open that valve a little bit and we can see how fast the air bubbles are moving through here and smashing into this sensor. But down here we can see the turbulence is contained in the upper part of the stub pipe. If you look close you can see how slowly the small particulates are moving near the sensor at the bottom of the stub because there isn’t any turbulence. I love that demo because you can actually see what is causing the mechanical noise in the sensors and why the 5-pipe diameter rule works so well. Cool. And this applies to any system. If you are doing temperature, don’t put the sensor right next to the heating element or at least put a baffle between the sensor and the heating element. If you are measuring distance, don’t mount the sensor on a moving, shaking or vibrating platform. If you are measuring fluid level, put the sensor inside a pipe to eliminate surface turbulence. If you are measuring flow, then the same 5-pipe diameter rule applies. The point is, think about where you mount your sensor. It makes a big difference. OK, so that’s it. You now have multiple ways you can reduce process variable noise in your system. And you now know why abusing the analog input filtering built into the drive can be a bad thing. Click here to learn more about WEG Variable Frequency Drives. Click here to subscribe to our YouTube Channel so you will be notified when we publish more videos like this and click here to learn about AutomationDirect’s free award-winning tech support options.



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