Problem with Time delay in step 7

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waqas_here

Joined: 20 Jan 2008
Posts: 24

09 Aug 2009 17:41 step 7 timer

I have several ON delay timers. Every time i have to change the delay time i have to search for each timer and change their time.
All of them have same delay time.

I want to call the delay time from a db variable so that i only have to change the time in db. How to do it? I have tried it but timer doesn't take time from DB.

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venix

Joined: 20 Mar 2008
Posts: 86
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10 Aug 2009 6:42 delay step7

Hello!

When you declare the variables in your datablock you must declare them as s5time.The initial value is expressed like this S5T#xMS (x integer in miliseconds,).

Ex: S5T#500MS (500 miliseconds)
S5T#5S (5 seconds)

A S5TIME variable occupies a word.So when you want to call the variable from datablock you have : DBx.DBWy

x=no of DB
y=no of Datablock Word

Ex: DB2.DBW4 declared as S5Time

Best regards!
Venix