I don't know dude... I'd bet your solution works, but it sounds like you're just acheiving the same thing as a larger deadband using a timer instead of your sensor.
Your relay chatter sounds like a classical deadband problem, where you're using a binary-valued actuator to control a continuous-valued process. There's a direct tradeoff between tolerable following error in your process variable and the duty-cycle of your actuator.
But you've been doing this a long time, so I'm probably not telling you anything you don't already know.

Richie308 wrote:

No, I've just exposed the double standard of some people who make their livings via intellectual property, yet who disrespect the IP rights of others.

You mean like the way the entertainment industry disrepects my fair-use rights?

WiseHacker wrote:

I agree. It's unfair to Digg that its own users put it in a state where it can be prosecuted

Unfair nothing! Digg's business model is built on user-contributed content; if Digg doesn't like what users are posting, they have two choices:

1. Allow the undesirable posts to continue and keep the user community happy 2) Restrict/delete the undesirable posts and live with the consequences of an unhappy user community that happens to drive their revenue
   Digg made a choice about how to handle the situation, and they will have to deal with the consequences

While I must admit to a chuckle or two from your post, I'm a little confused by the association of Jack Welch and General Motors... Jack Welch was longtime CEO of General Electric, replaced a few years ago by one of his proteges, Jeffery Immelt. I would be somewhat surprised if General Motors released a press release "by Mr. Welch himself".

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