Programmatic Control of Pulses from Ctr0

[MogaRaghu]

Using LV8.0 with Win_XP.

To control a loading solenoid at  a user programmed time interval ( On / Off ) I am using Ctr0 to generate the pulses and counting the number of pulses  by Ctr1 using a hardware link from Ctr0 output to Ctr1 input.

My requirement is to be able to start and stop the Pulse generation based on certain  conditions in a State Machine. And when I stop and restart the pulse generation, the Numeric count of pulses must not be reset. Typically each schedule on the machine will run for about 2 million cycles and hence retaining the elapsed count is very important.

More than my description the enclosed VI will explain the requirement more clearly.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Raghunathan

[TheWoost]

Hi Raghunathan,

I liked your application and couldn't help but try and code this up myself.  I have attached the modified version with the logic used to stop/restart the counter output.  Let me know if this is what you were trying to do.

Regards,
Andrew W
National Instruments