Elapsed Time

[inuyasha84]

Hi guys I'm using the Elapsed Time to set a wait and to have, at the same time, the chance to stop the waiting.

The problem is that if for example I set wait for 1 minute the first time everything works fine, but when I repeat the same operation (my VI is a state machine so I can put it in an idle state) something goes wrong...I tried to debug but I'm sure that the problem is the Elapsed Time for two reasons: the first is that I have replaced it with Wait (ms) Function and it works properly everytime I want, the second is that I put an indicator on the Elapsed time (s) and the first time I see that it count/wait from 0  to 1sec while the second time in automatic it goes to 5,46 without any countdown.

I hope you can help me because this thing is driving me crazy.

[apok]

please post your VI and not a image of it.....the problem might be in how to reset the timer input to count properly or to hold it.

[inuyasha84]

hi sorry for the delay... attached there is the VI..

the problem is in the Max Hold&Peak table as shown in the immage:

[TuiTui]

Hi inuyasha84,

I believe you need to reset the elapsed time express VI in order to make it start counting at 0 again.

If you hover the mouse over the VI, you can see that there is an input node for you to reset the function.

May i ask why you want to do this when you can use wait(ms) function or time delay function?

Hope this help

Best regards,

TuiTui

[inuyasha84]

I tried already with the reset and the error is always there. When it iterates the second time it gives in exit a strange number... it doesn't count from 0 to the value that I set.

Bytheway I need to stop the VI because if for example I did an error in the setup and I have the wait (ms) function setted at 1h I must wait until it finishes (The idea is to do an .exe of this VI).

[TuiTui]

Hi inuyasha84,

May i know how you reset the express VI?

I attached here a simple VI to show how you can reset the elapsed time.

Best regards,

TuiTui