Position Control using potentiometer?

[biojae]

Originally Posted by dyanoshak

What do you have your PID constants set to now?

I would just start with P to begin with. With my setup, a pot on a window motor , my P is at about 500. This moves the shaft pretty quick to the setpoint. I would try stepping up from 50, until you get a good feeling for how much P causes the motor to turn.

The PID constants will be unique to the system.

My P was 158,
with an I of 0.001

I was unsure of how high the values could go, so I tried something pretty high in my opinion (So used to numbers from -1 to 1 ). When it wasn't quite working, the next thing i jumped to was I control.

What is the range for the PID constants? 10bits + sign (-1024 to 1023)?