It does appear to work that way, which unfortunately has rarely been useful to me, for the reasons you cite. I usually end up doing it in a CALC* block. You might also be able to use a DTIME block with appropriate PERIOD and compare the first and last buckets, but I've never tried it. Corey Clingo BASF Corporation "Wilson, Brad" <brad.wilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 05/04/2007 10:34 AM Please respond to foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject Re: [foxboro] Rate of Change Alarming There is nothing in REALM that allows you to qualify how it calculates the rate of change - I'm guessing it compares inputs from scan to scan which could result in very erratic reading for flows & pressures. Temperatures are more steady, so perhaps you slow down the scan rate for the REALM and see if that helps. Brad Wilson brad.wilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Invensys Systems, Inc 1090 King Georges Post Rd, Suite 204 Edison, NJ 08837 732-874-0087 - _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave