Some more threshold temperature checks were implemented (my plan was different but I had an error in the implementation. The power should be higher, and these are the actual values):
- limit power to 70 W (17.5 %) when the heaters are above 225 °C
- limit power to 40 W (10 %) when the chiller outlet is above 70 °C
- cut power when the chiller outlet is above 100 °C
This is the result:
So I changed this a bit:
- limit power to 100 W (25 %) when the heaters are above 230 °C
- limit power to 70 W (17.5 %) when the heaters are above 235 °C
- limit power to 40 W (10 %) when the chiller outler is above 70 °C
- cut power when the chiller outlet is above 100 °C
Things were a bit different now:
Now there's saturated vapor in the chamber at about t = 220 s, and a short while later the chiller outlet temperature jumps to some 90 °C. This jump could be anticipated, because some evaporated galden condensed in the chiller inlet tube, which has a short horizontal section just behind the chamber. A galden drop built up here, basically obstructing the outlet until too much galden evaporated and suddenly a lot of it got into the chiller.
The chiller reacts quickly to the increased galden mass flow, and also shows fast recovery from such a "flush".
Next:
- improve tube geometry to have less galden being collected in there. This is annoying because the teflon tube is so hard to get into shape;
- fix power setting algorithm,
- write a P- or PI-controller for the heating up state, and one for the saturated vapor state.
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