Applying the principles of closed loop PID control to your system fan requirements will eliminate many problems down the road. Darrin Vallis is a principal field applications engineer at Cypress ...

With closed-loop control, poor performance typically manifests itself as deviations from set point. By analyzing these deviations, one can determine if they are caused by suboptimal controller tuning ...

UNDERSTANDING CLOSED-LOOP FAN SPEED CONTROL By Ken W. Gay, SMSC When implementing cooling solutions for electronic equipment, system designers are confronted with a complex set of variables.

Since closed-loop heating relies upon various components for precision feedback and optimized control, the system can incur additional hardware/software costs versus an open-loop system, which can ...

Withclosed loop speed control, the fan controller ensures that the fan isrunning at the desired speed by measuring the actual speed and adjustingthe duty cycle accordingly. Here the host specifies the ...

The “systems” we speak of here are closed-loop control systems. These systems rely on sensor data which, when input to the controller, provide the feedback from which the controller takes action. That ...

Feedback control methods implemented using low-cost microprocessors enable significant gains for single-phase ac motor speed controls.