[time-nuts] New Subscriber, DIY GPSDO project (yes, another one)

[Bill Hawkins]

Try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PID_controller

If that doesn't help, what we used to do for industrial process controllers was to set Reset time to the largest value and Derivative to zero (to disable them) and then increasethe gain until the loop oscillated when you made a step change to the setpoint, then you used 70% of that value for gain. The period of oscillation told you how to do Reset, but I don't remember that. Conservative settings were used because control valves were not linear. Heaters are generally linear.

Bill Hawkins, whose memory isn't what it used to be.

On Sat, Mar 7, 2020, at 5:04 PM, Hal Murray wrote:
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> kb8tq at n1k.org said:
> > As far as I know there is no “closed form” solution to tuning a GPSDO. It is
> > very much a measure / tweak / measure / tweak sort of thing. 
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> I've seen a recipe for tuning a PID controller. That was ages ago. I wonder 
> where.
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> The key idea was that you needed to be able to poke the system and see how it 
> responded.
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> Google for >tune PID< gets several hits that might be worth investigating.
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