P-P EAR compensated

The idea behind PP EAR compensation was to reduce the overall value of the PP EAR % in such a way
as to allow for a lower threshold.
This would make the AWA more sensitive to changing surge wave shape and produce a trip to minimize
the number of surge pulses acting on a copper to copper weakness.
This PP EAR compensation is basically doing the following.
1. During the early stages of amplitude increase calculate the difference in area between the surge
waveform and the 0V axis.
2. Once 400V has been reached take the calculated area and subtract it from the next pulse area
difference. This would effectively remove the expected amplitude difference as a contributor to the next
calculation.
3. Continue to remove the expected change from each successive pulse to effectively lower the PP EAR.
4. Procedurally lower the PPEAR Trip set point to stop testing as soon as waveform instability is
recognized.

The compensation mode is having these random spiking issues when the change in area applied does
not match up with the actual change caused by amplitude increase.
a few ideas that may be causing this issue are:
1. Processor hesitation due to other processes running in the background.
2. Changes in the area change over the course of the test due to rotor influence.

So with the foundation laid the short answer to the question is, Yes.
Yes, turning off compensation mode will remove the spurious spikes in the PP EAR graph as shown in
the customers own experiments.
The down side is not the area change will be higher and follow the standard (1/x) shaped curve. As seen
below.
This means that the PP EAR value at the beginning of the test will be significantly higher than with
compensation turned on.
Additionally this initial PP EAR value is more closely related to the surge ramp rate. In fact it is directly
proportional to the VRAMP setting in the surge setup section.

The greater the VRAMP setting will affect a greater change in area between pulses resulting in a higher
Pulse to Pulse EAR.
This will require a higher PP EAR setting. Usually around 10% for ramp rates less than 50.
Near the end of the test, when the PP EAR has reduced asymptotically and is much lower than the trip set
point, small changes in wave shape that cause PP EAR to spike will not likely cause the tester to trip.
As long as the technician is watching the PP EAR for these smaller changes there is little benefit lost in
turning off compensation mode.