Q series PID control

[Robo 1]

Does anyone know how to reinitialise the PID function on 1 loop only.

I am using 3 loops and don't want to use the PIDINIT command as this will perform an initialise on all loops while they are running OK. I am using the PIDRUN/PIDSTOP commands for loop 3 and this is causing the next PID process to use the "old auto mv" it had stored prior to the PIDSTOP command for the 2nd and subsequent processes. All loops run in auto only. I have used PIDPRMW but this doesn't work.

[kaare_t 155]

I'm not too into PIDs, but what CPU and software (including version) are you using?

[Robo 1]

Q03UD

GXWorks2 Version 1.499V

[kaare_t 155]

Sorry, forgot to ask the first time: Why do you want to re-initialize the loop in the first place? Wouldn't normal start/stop, or maybe bypassing them be sufficient?

[Robo 1]

No. Using start/stop does not re-initialise the PID. It just turns off the PID function leaving the autoMV where it was prior to the stop function. So the next time you use the PID function it resumes at a point you stopped last time. This causes a major malfunction with our process. 

I've just had a colleague tell me that the auto/manual selection bit can be used to move the manMV (writeable) into the autoMV(read only), so by toggling the auto/manual and writing '0' to the manMV should do the trick.

[kaare_t 155]

Yes, that was what I was wondering about. I've used auto/manual and have never had issues, but I guess I used the wrong term ("start/stop" instead of "auto/manual"). Glad you got it sorted out.