hdhosseini

DLittlejohn412

Hello Experts

I am trying to use a timer preset value in a math function to calculate Rate Of Change for a process value.

The goal is to have logic that will run a timer and calculate rate of change for temperature.

I was trying to use SFB4 timer function. At T=0, store the temperature as START_TEMP. At T=X (Timer Preset Value), store the temperature as END_TEMP. Then (END_TEMP - START_TEMP) / Timer Preset Value.

This will allow me to change the timer preset to 1 minute, 10 minutes, etc and have the Rate of Change calculation give me the rate for the same time period.

How can I use the Timer Preset in the division equation? Or is there a better way to do this?

Regards

Hello,
To do the task,the easiest way using "TIME" data
type.This data type shows how many "ms" is in
selected period. To obtain number of "seconds",
you should divide the "TIME" by 1000 as "DINT".
Also possible to find out the number of minutes!

My suggestion would be conversion of data type
"TIME" to its "REAL" equivalent which can be freely
used in Arithmetic and Mathematics instructions.
[code]
L MD 100 //Data type TIME
L 1000
/D
DTR
T MD 104[/code]


Check a very detailed discussion here:

Variable Time Value Timer

Best regards,
Hamid Hosseini

 Good day,

How can I load a Time type variable in an FB?

What should I use instead of MD 10?

I am going to load a Duration and a Cycle and change a variable from 1 to 100 by every cycle.

How can I divide Duration by Cycle when they are both in Time data type?

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Split from Use TIME data type in math function.