# Power Chart adjusting the Y axis to accommodate your data range

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [July 9, 2024, 8:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/power-chart-adjusting-the-y-axis-to-accommodate-your-data-range/92977 "2024-07-09T20:06:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Felipe\_CRM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dfb087/32.png) [@Felipe\_CRM](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Felipe_CRM)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 12:53pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/power-chart-adjusting-the-y-axis-to-accommodate-your-data-range/92977/4 "2024-07-10T12:53:47Z")

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Try a logarithmic scale:

> **[Perspective - XY Chart | Ignition User Manual](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/docs/8.1/appendix/components/perspective-components/perspective-chart-palette/perspective-xy-chart#yaxesvalue)**
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> The XY Chart displays data trends.

It would accomodate both your large and small values, as long as you're careful setting the range:

> [@Help setting up the y axis scaling on a Perspective XY Chart](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/help-setting-up-the-y-axis-scaling-on-a-perspective-xy-chart/87068/2):
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> On the logarithmic scale, the issue is with your range. Since the log of 0 explodes to negative infinity, the chart will attempt to max out the range and your values will disappear. [image] [image] Instead, set the min to a reasonable low value, or leave it blank so the chart will automatically set a lower limit based on the data (you can still specify a max): [image] [image] For the linear chart, you'll have to play with the appearance.grid.minDistance property of your axis: [image] [im…

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