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Surely a basic PID controller with reasonable tuning could mostly mitigate the problem you describe, which isn’t really a different problem than a thermostat th

Surely a basic PID controller with reasonable tuning could mostly mitigate the problem you describe, which isn’t really a different problem than a thermostat that would attempt to turn the furnace on and off multiple times per second if the thermometer was fluctuating between 74 and 75 multiple times per second. Granted, tuning the PID controller implies loosening the “maintain the exact target temperature at all costs” spec.

pdonis 4y ago
> tuning the PID controller implies loosening the “maintain the exact target temperature at all costs” spec. And if you loosen that spec, then, as others have already pointed out, just having two setpoints, a lower one for heating and a higher one for cooling, will be sufficient as long as the difference between them is large enough (probably 2 degrees or more would be enough for many use cases). That would be simpler than adding a PID controller.