jeepinjeepin
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cwi said:Most commercially available PID controllers are inappropriate for use with compressor based cooling, or for slow responding systems (like large thermal masses with relatively small cooling/heating inputs- sound familiar?).
Using a BCS or Arduino controller with some custom code is one of the few ways to get better performance than these simple on/off controllers provide, and for the most part, that only applies for heating inputs.
Yeah, didn't think about the compressor delay stuff. It would short cycle the life out of it, literally. The Arduino is interesting though. I have zero(0) experience in Arduino or coding though. I guess you would give it rules telling it to cut off early and include a compressor delay but without heating restriction?