Operation
6.4.4AdvancedPeakHold
Thisfunctionsearchesthesensorsignalforalocalmaximum(peak)
andwritesthisvaluetotheoutputuntilanewlocalmaximumis
found.Beforethealgorithmrestartssearchingforalocalmaximum,
theobjecttemperaturehastodropbelowapredefinedthreshold.If
theobjecttemperatureraisesabovetheheld��valuewhichhasbeen
writtentotheoutputsofar,theoutputsignalfollowstheobject
temperatureagain.Ifthealgorithmdetectsalocalmaximumwhile
theobjecttemperatureiscurrentlybelowthepredefinedthreshold
theoutputsignaljumpstothenewmaximumtemperatureofthis
localmaximum.Oncetheactualtemperaturehaspassedamaximum
aboveacertainmagnitude,anewlocalmaximumisfound.This
magnitudeiscalledhysteresis.
Temp
output temperature
object temperature
hysteresis
threshold
Time
Figure28:AdvancedPeakHold
Theadvancedpeakholdfunctionisonlyadjustablebymeansofthe
DataTempMultiDropSoftware.
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