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Use a temperature sensor and a heating unit to control the temperature water at a given variation

Topic last updated 29 Nov 2016, by Richard van Bemmelen. 1 reply
Zheyou Guo
31 Mar 2016

People like to use warm water at 30 to 50 degree rather than boiling water, so what if I use a temperature sensor to control the temperature of the water? What should the code be？ I am a beginner and really not familiar with the function of temperature sensor or heating unit, how to programme? Thank you for your help.

Richard van Bemmelen
29 Nov 2016

You need to create a PID controller. That has a setpoint for the desired temperature, a measured value for the actual temperature and an output that controls the temperature.