05-13-2015 05:26 PM
I have a vi that can manually run and pause a stepper motor. What I would like to achieve is to automatically pause the stepper for 10 seconds then automatically restart the stepper. Thanks
05-13-2015 05:43 PM
Sounds like a good application for a simple State Machine. What have you tried? Where are you stuck?
05-13-2015 06:03 PM
I can pause the motor manually, but not automatically. what I want to do is to step the motor and have it stop and collect data at four points. i would like to input the four points and input the time to stay at those points.
05-13-2015 07:15 PM
So you figured out the first part of your new state machine. Now you just need a wait state that keeps returning to the wait statement until the 10 seconds have passed. Then you return back to your first state.
05-14-2015 09:28 AM
Yes that I what I need
05-14-2015 12:10 PM
Usually a standalone VI for manually operating a piece of equipment is just a fancy wrapper for a driver. You can get ideas on how to control it automatically by looking inside the VI.