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Stucture help please   [3 Articles]

I am trying write a program that monitors 2 inputs and then activates 3 outputs. If Input #1 is active: Make output #1 follow input' AND Start 20...

Timer()   [3 Articles]

Good afternoon, I would like to use the Timer on a bx-24. In a new project, F=Timer works perfectly. If I use the exact same code in another (much longer) f...

Timer2 on Pin 25   [3 Articles]

Not too long ago Frank Manning posted some code to use Timer 2 to control PWM on pin 25. I'm using Timer 1 to control a motor at 14 kHz on pin 27 and would like ...

Re: Timer() loses time

From: Neil Jepsen <> > [...]as soon as I realised that timer was not losing > time, my "game_time" was incorrect.. I've repeated > the offending code below, an...

PWM & Timer   [3 Articles]

Hi~ I have a question about timer. In my applicaiton, PWM is always used to control a DC motor, but I also want to use the command "timer" to calcuate the time interval of...

Re: MultiTasking

How about using the Timer function: -------------------------------- Sub Main Dim Five_Secs As Single Five_Secs = Timer() Do Call CheckPins()...

RE: DCF77   [2 Articles]

I do this on one of my projects. It is very simple but the accuracy is only +/- 4 ms. s=false do If pin = high and s=false then t=timer s=true end if ...

max timer value?   [3 Articles]

This routine locks after a few day's so Pinker stay's 1! If Timer>TimerTempB+1.0 then If Pinker=0 then Pinker=1 ElseIf Pinker=1 then Pinker=0 End If...

Watchdog Vs Timer?   [3 Articles]

Hi guy, I understand that the Watchdog is capable of reseting the processor after a maximum of 2048ms. However, my application require this timing to be appr...

Run time timer   [3 Articles]

I have a project that I am designing and I need a simple accurate timer that starts when power is applied to the circuit. I need to display this on a bpi-216. Any ideas woul...

Timer?   [4 Articles]

Hi, I need to incorporate a stopwatch type timer in a program I am writing for the BX24. I have looked at, and run, TimerExample.bas but it only counts about 9 sec...

Timer0 + ticking interupt

Hello. how can i use timer0 to generate an interupt for a task periodically? The timer will be used as a free running ticking device and when a I/O line goes hig...

Re: recommend a piezo speaker to use?   [2 Articles]

--- In basicx@basi..., Carol wrote: > hello, > > i am wishing to hook a piezo speaker to a basicx pin and get a beep out > of the thing with an i...

watchdog timer and reseting

Is there a status bit or method which can indicate the source of a reset? Weather the BX24 was reseted from a watchdog timer or the reset signal? mike for bo...

how pass ADC contents to Timer/Counter   [2 Articles]

Hello, my new group!!! I write from Italy, so excuse my grammar mistake... I' ve already a nice question for you... How can I pass the contents of ADC's registers (ADCH and ADCL...

DeltaTime   [2 Articles]

I am trying to determine DT every time i sample an ADC from an analog input.... This is what i am doing... TimerTemp = Timer ' We store the timer value in ...

Timer, button, Time on delay

Hello, I also program AB PLCs and try to experment using what I know with programing PLC in RS logic to the microcontrolers. I am working on what would be a time on delay Rel...

Re: Migrating to a new platform   [2 Articles]

--- In basicx@basi..., "Westhoff, Thomas " wrote: > > >It doesn't have multi-tasking, but you can work around that usually. And this is one of the really ni...

Need Timer Action in BX24

Hello Is it possible to wait for 1min for keypress. And if the chip get a keypress on its input within 1minute then we have to jump to a location, else after 1min we have to jum...

Re: Re: BX task switching, shared variables and atomic access

I have not used tasking in the past because I have not understood it properly nor been able to use it reliably. In an effecot to get some more understanding I decided to start...

Re: Internal Timers

Operating_system_referance.doc page 26 gives you a list of conflicts. adc to com1 used timer 1 InputCapture used timer 1 OutputCapture uses timer 1 thos...

InputCapture overflow.

Hi, Is there a way of changing the tick-rate of InputCapture? I imagine there is a pre-scaler ahead of the timer used for InputCapture. I need to test the ...

Re: Timing button presses   [2 Articles]

--- In , "psyclopedia" wrote: > Is there a way for the BX-24 to test for the amount of time > a button is pressed? I assume that you have a ...

onboard timer capabilities?   [3 Articles]

g'day everyone, I'm pretty new to microcontrollers having done one project at uni with a BS2. My next project involves measuring race times with an accuracy of 1...

Can i use RTC , COM3 and Timer1 functions on a BX24chip

Hello Can i use RTC , COM3 and Timer1 functions on a BX24chip. can i do Timer action with 1 or is their free timer to use. Thanks ------------------------------------ ...

Re: Re: BX task switching, shared variables and atomic access

You only need to start the task once. Try this for your Sub Main: sub main() calltask "taskled1", stackled1 'run as task calltask "taskled2", stackled2 do Call...

Timeout on Serial Port.

Hi, Does anybody have a method of implementing a timeout on a serial port. I have a project where I where I am waiting for a specific string on the seri...

data transciever   [2 Articles]

I'm building a wireless timing system for alpine ski racing using a few BX-01's i have around, and i was wondering if anyone knew of a low cost transceiver tha...

Low Power Mode using timer1 interrupt On LCDX (BX-34)

Does anyone know how this is done? I want to put the cpu into idle mode using an interrupt from the the compare function on timer 1. According to the Atmel documentation this shoul...

Re: 40 KHz signal

use a 555 timer chip. there are some 555 timer design tools that can be found on the web which will help you choose the schematic, resistors and capacitors for the ...

Re: Timer() loses time   [9 Articles]

Neil, Frank is correct, I misspoke. Com3 will not interfere with the RTC. I was thinking of something else. Are you perhaps incrementing your Time variable ...

Re: Re: Multiple Instances of a Task

Perhaps obvious, a one-line task makes a VB-like timer. When the task completes, its stack's first byte becomes value bxTaskHalted. It can be reused, but a second concurre...

Amplifier   [9 Articles]

I want to make a stamp project to set the fast/slow control on an old clock rather than wait for a day to see if the clock is slow or fast I want to use a "tic" to ...

Extended Timer() function

Here is an exploit of the Basic-X register.RTCTick implementation which permits using Timer(), usually limited to a 24-hour period, to measure beyond 48-day periods. Basic-X kee...

Timer/Sample rate   [2 Articles]

Is there a way to determine a sample rate (how many times per second i have been runing this sub). or is there a way to set watchdog/interrupt timer to go to a sp...

Re: timedelay   [6 Articles]

A major shortcoming with the bx24 ( and others) is the lack of timers. In PLC programming, an oft use command is if x.= true then start timer y when timer y = 0, ...

Re: Persistant variables and EEPROM life

Don, Use Timer(). Every time the 'station' is changed, refresh a variable for, say, three seconds in the future (Timer + 3.0). When Timer catches up with the vari...