Application manual
Air quality multisensor and regulator EK-ES2-TP
Release 1.0 - Updated: 14/02/2020
Application Manual
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9.4
Fancoils with On / Off fan speed control
The multi-stage fan control is similar to the 2-point control with hysteresis described in the previous section.
The speed of the fan is chosen basing on the difference between the set point (T
set
) and the actual measured
temperature (T
eff
). The substantial difference from the described 2-points algorithm is that, in this case, there
can be up to three stages (depending the number of available fan speeds); a different hysteresis threshold
exists for each stage transition. At a given stage, i.e. speed setting, a threshold causes the switching to a
higher speed (or none, for the highest stage) while the other causes the switching to a lower speed (or off, for
the lowest stage). Usually, but not inherently, a same threshold value will be used for both transitions that lead
to each speed from the adjacent ones.
Picture 16
Picture 17
The diagram on the left in Picture 16 refers to the speed control of the fan-coil (with 3-stage operation) in
heating mode. Please note that for each speed, two thresholds values are assigned, one for activation and
one for deactivation. The thresholds values are specified in the ETS application program, and their effect can
be summarized as follows:
Speed 1 (1st stage) – The speed is activated when the room temperature value is lower than the value
(T
Set
– Threshold TS1 - Hysteresis) and deactivated when the room temperature value reaches the value
(T
Set
– Threshold TS1); the first speed is also deactivated when a higher speed needs to be activated. The
default value for Threshold TS1 parameter is 0 K.
VEL1
Tset
VEL2
VEL3
Hyster.
T Ambient
Tset
T Ambient
Hyster.
OFF
VEL1
VEL2
VEL3
OFF
Threshold TS1
Threshold TS2
Threshold TS3
(T Setpoint
– T Ambient)
Threshold TS1
Threshold TS2
Threshold TS3
(T Ambient
– T Setpoint)
T ambient
OFF
ON
Tset
Thyster.
T ambient
OFF
ON
Tset
Thyster.