Fixing aux parameter in ramping constraint

[GabrielSoto-INL]

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Pull Request Description

What issue does this change request address?

#357

What are the significant changes in functionality due to this change request?

Auxiliary parameter for binary variables (used only when ramp frequencies are selected by user) is now a smaller value scaling with limit. This prevents the lower bound for ramping to be unintentionally constrained.

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[dylanjm]

Minor request for more clarification in comment

[dylanjm]

Can expound on your comment a bit more. Things like why would it not behave and why choose such a small number.

[GabrielSoto-INL]

I added more explanation to the comments here. Additionally, added a xlsx file to the relevant regression test with some sanity checking for the signs, here is a screenshot:

[dylanjm]

Changes are good to merge.