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[From Bruce Gregory (990421.1458 EDT)]

Bill Powers (990420.1553 MDT)
>

> So what? It is correct. In fact if you don't understand that
> the thermostat
> controls only its perception, you may have a hard time
> troubleshooting a
> thermostat with a bad sensor.

I doubt it. Clearly the sensor needs to be able to detect the "true"
temperature of the room.

> You may have trouble understanding why a
> perfectly good thermostat set to 72 degrees doesn't keep the
> air on the
> other side of the room (by the windows) at 72 degrees,
> although the air
> around the thermostat is at the right temperature.

Again, I doubt it. Probably not enough hot-air registers to keep the
room uniformly warm.

> Why are you so worried all of a sudden about people thinking
> our ideas are
> bizarre or that we are "flakes?" RE the other post, there
> are plenty of
> professional control system designers who do a lousy job of it. Do you
> really care what they think? I don't.

Calling a theory a "control theory" when control engineers do not
recognize it as such is asking to be ignored. That seems to be what is
happening.


Bruce Gregory