I am trying to latch a boolean indicator when true. Once it reads true I want it to stay latched even if the input changes states.

[gasguy]

I am running a continuous DAQ application. When an input comes withen a certain percentage of the output I want to illuminate a boolean light. But, I want it to stay lit even if the input becomes false.

[djadjok]

Yes, unlike boolean controls, indicators have not all those fancy mechanical actions, as indicators are supposed _to_indicate_ the values on theirs inputs. But you can implement your required latching programmatically - with a shift register (if in a loop) or with a local variable of this indicator. In both cases just perform a logical OR operation with old value. So once set to TRUE, the indicator will remain in this case (just don't forget to initialise it to false in the beginning).

[EdDickens]

Here's a boolean latch VI I made that has inputs for resetting the latch when needed, and also you can choose to either reset on first call or not.

This is in ver 6.0.2

Ed

[gasguy]

Ed,

Thanks for the input, how do I tie my boolean input to your latch VI?

[EdDickens]

The input terminal "Latch Control" (should have thought up a better name) is where you wire the boolean you want latched, and wire the "Latched?" output terminal to complete the circuit.

Ed

[Nirmal_Sharma]

Hi,

I am including a VI which solves your problem.

If you are looking for soemething different, pl. give feedback.

Best Regards,
Nirmal Sharma
India

[EdDickens]

Here's a boolean latch sub-VI I made that has an input for resetting the latch when needed, and also you can choose to either reset on first call or not.

The input terminal "Latch Control" is where you wire the boolean you want latched, and wire the "Latched?" output terminal to complete the circuit.


This is in ver 6.0.2 but will upgrade to 6.1 or 7 with no problems.

Ed

[Piotrekp]

How would you implement this latch when you are monitoring multiple inputs to the DAQ card. I am trying to do the same with 7 channels. I know the shift register will have 7 elements but I am missing the rest.

[Justin D]

Piotrekp,

I've attached a short example that shows you how to do this with 2 different signals.  You could expand this to handle any number of input signals.  To make things look neater you also might want to try using functional globals instead of plain shift registers in your while loop.  Functional globals are explained in this document...

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/webmain/D2E196C7416F373A862568690074C759

As a side note.  It's usually a good idea to create a new thread instead of posting to a thread that hasn't been replied to in a while.  In this case the most recent reply before yours was in 2003.  This makes it less likely that other users will see your post and reply to it.

I hope this helps,

Justin D.

Applications Engineer

National Instruments

[nirav]

Hi Justin 😧

Can you post the TestLatch.vi on this thread in Labview version 7.1. I do not have Labview 8.0

Respectfully,

Nirav