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"Stopwatch" instruction

This instruction is used to measure a time during the execution of the part-program.

The time measured is accurate to two thousandths of a second.

It is possible to integrate up to 5 stopwatches into a part-program. These are numbered according to the position of the instruction that starts the stopwatch in the program, so stopwatch n°1 is the one that is placed at the top of the program, the stopwatch placed at the bottom will be n°2 etc.

The feedback variable of this stopwatch corresponds to the time that elapsed between the start and stop of the stopwatch. This time is returned in TIME format (in [ms]).

The reset function stops the stopwatch and resets its value.

Use of the instruction

To use the stopwatch instruction, you must first declare a variable of type "TIME" to be able to view the time value (see figure 1). You can activate the visualization using the "visualize" button on the main menu.

Figure 1: Declaration of the stopwatch feedback variable

Then, you must place the instruction in the part-program where you want to start, stop and reset the stopwatch.

You must also, in the variable line, select the "TIME" return variable created previously.

Figure 2: Using the stopwatch instruction

Below is a list of the instruction's input and output parameters:

Table 1: List of instruction parameters

Warning, if no stop or reset is programmed, the chronometer value will continue to increase until its value reaches 2,000,000,000,000 ms.