Feedback device) to the fully extended position. The valve output LED will glow
either red or green (depending on if the outputs are reversed) and 10 volts will
be sent to the valve output.
After a delay set by the 'Soft Error Timeout', the 'Error' LED for the axis will
turn on, indicating the actuator has not followed the commanded position closely
enough. After the delay set by the 'Hard Error Timeout', the output 'Status' LED
will go red, and the axis will be disabled.
If you move both the actuator and command to the fully extended position,
then the valve LED will again extinguish, showing that zero volts are being sent
to the valve output. (You may need to reset the 'Hard Error Timeout' before the
valve output will be enabled again.)
Moving both the actuator and command to the 50% position the valve LED
will be extinguished, because the Position Feedback loop thinks the actuator is
at the commanded position. Now if you move either the Position Feedback or
commanded position, the valve will output a +/-5 volt signal as the Br-EFB tries
to command the actuator to follow the commanded position. If you increased the
gain to 2.000, the valve output would again reach +/-10 volts. Increasing the
gain even further will narrow how far apart the command and position sensor
need to be to reach the full +/-10 volt valve output. This is known as 'narrowing
the 'V", because as the gain is raised, it increases how tightly the actuator will try
to follow the position commands.
D) Integral (I) Gain (numeric value, slider, checkbox & output voltage
display)
This Numeric Value box and slider is used to manually set the 'I' gain used by
the currently selected axis controlled by this Br-EFB. If you don't want to use
Integral (I) Gain at all, just uncheck the checkbox.
The 'I', or 'Integral' gain is used in a PID ServoLoop to nudge the actuator that
last little bit to get it to the commanded position.
When an actuator is very near the position it is being commanded to move
towards, the difference between the current position (as measured by the
Position Feedback element on the actuator) and the commanded position are
too close for the positional ('P') gain to output a sufficient voltage to move the
actuator the last little bit.
The 'I' gain will give a steadily rising voltage to the valve output until it rises
high enough to 'nudge' the actuator the last little bit to get to the commanded
position.
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