Emerson AXP1600, AXP1406 manual Figure A-1 Cooling Algorithm

Adaptive Adjustment of the Minimum Fan Level System Behavior in Response to Sensor Events

The following graph illustrates the behavior of the above cooling algorithm in finding a stable fan level in real shelf, in the presence of a substantial thermal load in the shelf. The configuration parameter NORMAL_STABLE_TIME* is set to 30 minutes. The graph presents the fan speed changes over a period of 70 minutes. The horizontal axis has time scaled from 0 to 70 minutes.

Figure A-1 Cooling Algorithm

The fan speed is initially lowered to 3. This causes a thermal alert and after a single increase in fan speed, during the subsequent fan speed reduction, the level stabilizes at 4. After the expiration of a period defined by the parameter NORMAL_STABLE_TIME* (which is equal to 30 minutes) the level is lowered to 3 which again causes a thermal alert, an increase in fan speed with subsequent reductions, and the fan level again stabilizes at 4.

*These are configurable options in /etc/shelfman.conf. If these values are not defined in shelfman.conf, default levels are used.

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