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  1. patmando

    Need Temposonic Rod Scaling Help

    PNachtwey,, thankyou for your replies. I do not believe I have a control issue or even feed back at that. I think it is more of an linearity performance problem. At 125 inch rod set at 1 recirc is about the best I am going to do. So I think at 0.02% times the length of the rod is going to...
  2. patmando

    Need Temposonic Rod Scaling Help

    Thank you for your inputs, the press we have is for pressing particle board. It's a 20 hole press, steam for heat which can reach over 300 degrees. There is an existing rod in place, but not of that length. The code for this one is in a parallel rung of code. Using the same type of logic...
  3. patmando

    Need Temposonic Rod Scaling Help

    Thank you for all your advice. There are scaling instructions in TI, but for the most part here they prefer to use math instruction blocks. The main problem is that the scaled value fluctuates +-20 thousands. Say my press target is .835 inches when fully closed, when it goes past the target by...
  4. patmando

    Need Temposonic Rod Scaling Help

    Have a 130" temposonic rod to keep track of press position. Using Siemens PLC 555. Rod is an MTS Flexible Sensor, 0-20ma @ +24vdc. MTS 201554 magnet. Not too sure how the scaling functions work. Need some advise please. thanks

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