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General => Technical support => Topic started by: Bo Barry on April 01, 2007, 01:24:34 PM

Title: 'Done bit' on Timers
Post by: Bo Barry on April 01, 2007, 01:24:34 PM

Most texts show two outputs for timers, including a 'done' bit.
How do I get one from the Tiger (T100MD)?

Any help appreciated.

Bo Barry

Title: Re:'Done bit' on Timers
Post by: support on April 01, 2007, 07:11:43 PM

What's tiger? That's not a nick name for T100MD+ - not endorsed by us at least.

The "done bit" you are referring to must be the timer contact? The timer contact is the NO or NC contact you can pick from the timer table and that itself is the time out flag. You access the timer contact (i.e. time out flag ) in TBASIC as well using the TESTIO command or TESTBIT command.

Title: Re:'Done bit' on Timers
Post by: Bo Barry on April 01, 2007, 08:18:25 PM

I must be losing it! Somewhere, when I purchased the Latin-tech PTS-T100 trainers I got the name Tiger 100. I cannot find it anywhere. Oh well. I'm retiring in 40 days, so will the tiger name.

Thanks for the reply.

What I was referring to was the two outputs from timers in my text, the ENABLE bit, active when the timer instruction is true, and the DONE bit, which changes state when the accumulator hits the preset value. It also mentions, but rarely uses a TIMER-TIMING bit. But several examples use both the ENABLE & DONE bits, hence my confusion about the T100MD+ timer.

Thanks again.

Bo

Title: Re:'Done bit' on Timers
Post by: support on April 02, 2007, 10:08:38 AM

In TRiLOGI, the enable bit is the ladder circuit connecting to the timer's coil. The done bit is any contact that has the same label name as the timer. It is just a different in notations.