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Example: You have a press with top and bottom heated platens, each with its own temperature controller (see Fig 1). You want to be able to set the temperature on one controller, say the top, (call it the master) and have the bottom, (the slave) adopt the same setting.

The slave controller takes the signal representing temperature difference, from the two thermocouples connected back-to-back. You set its set point to 0 degrees. This controller decreases its output power for upscale readings increases it for downscale readings and will not be satisfied until it achieves its set point of zero degrees. This means that the two thermocouples therefore the two platens end up at the same temperature.

 


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