timer

[janet23]

Hello everyone, 

I'm a student and i'am looking for help, l learned the basics of labview but not too much i also sow some videos but i'am pressed with time now and i couldn't find a solution.

However, i was assigned to collect the break time of each machine in a production chain in a factory.the supervisor wants to see the break time of the machine processing  when emergency stop button is pressed (true) and when it is not (false) , he wants to stop the timer and display this time.I will join a screenshot of what i did. I use it as a subVI but the problem is that i didnt know how to display the time when the button is not pressed for now i put a null constant in that case until i'll find a solution .Could you please help me getting through this.

[vipillai]

Hi janet23,

Perhaps you could use a case structure inside your while loop, with one case being when the button is pressed and the other being when the button is unpressed. Also, it seems like you are just using software timing. For future reference, the counter/timer forum is for hardware timing. Next time you could post something like this in the LabVIEW forum. Thanks!

Vin