Aargh, this annoying Outlook text formatting!! Original message repeated below, hopefully without text artefacts... I believe this is as-designed.=20 You can only configure a characterisation containing a 'peak' if you set PRIBLK=3D0. If there's a peak in the curve (ie. it's not continuously moving in one direction...what's the mathematical term for this?) then it's not possible to generate a unique value for BCALCO for any value of BCALCI. So I guess the designers included this as a genuine feature...to allow you to put such curves in, BCALCO calculation has been disabled when PRIBLK=3D0.=20 You can check this by trying to configure a curve containing a peak with PRIBLK=3D1. The ICC will tell you where to go. If you turn PRIBLK off, = it goes in fine.=20 If you still need the BCALCO value in your control scheme, you can configure a dummy BIAS block upstream of the CHARC, and use it to terminate the initialisation chain.=20 Con O'Brien Bulwer Island=20 -----Original Message----- From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Corey R Clingo Sent: Wednesday, 22 March 2006 2:32 AM To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [foxboro] CHARC block BCALCO generation Hi list, I noticed while troubleshooting some control logic the other day that CHARC blocks will not continuously update the BCALCO parameter when PRIBLK is not 1. Unfortunately in the scheme we're using I cannot set PRIBLK to 1 as there is not always an upstream propagation path for it. Is this as-designed behavior? I don't believe I've noticed this phenomenon on other blocks, but I plan to experiment if I get time. I took a quick look at the docs, but they don't explicitly mention this. Thanks, Corey Clingo BASF Corp. =20 =20 _______________________________________________________________________ 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 =20 foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: = mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=3Djoin to unsubscribe: = mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=3Dleave =20 _______________________________________________________________________ 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