# Percent Deadband

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/percent-deadband/19126>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [August 7, 2018, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/percent-deadband/19126 "2018-08-07T15:32:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![rbillings](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/53a042/32.png) [@rbillings](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/rbillings)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/percent-deadband/19126/1 "2018-08-07T15:32:45Z")

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The percent deadband, is it percent of engineering max and min or of last data point?

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/2/246e48019e012aeff407d4b8e50291de66f9715e.png)

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 3:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/percent-deadband/19126/2 "2018-08-07T15:52:03Z")

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If the deadband mode is percent, it is set from the engineering limits, yes.