Hello,
My problem is that I am using Labview to monitor a cycle testing rig. Part of the cycle is to heat a sample with steam until it reaches a certain temperature. It is my desire to run this cycle at night when no one is there so I am attempting to build a timeout function into the program.
The idea is to stop the cycle if the steaming doesn't raise the sample to required temperature say in 5 minutes. This indicates a problem, thus the testing rig will shutdown until someone can look at it. The problem I am running into is that after the first cycle the elapsed time function is running in the background which is not a problem until the second cycle. Even though I have the code so that the elapsed time function resets to zero once it is called again it returns a "true" value for a split second which is enough to shutdown the program. So is there a way to either....
1) Reset the elapsed time function to zero before it returns a split second true.
2) Filter a value (boolean) to "ignore" the first second of data or these types of fleeting responses. Possibly some kind of switch function or a time average value over a few seconds
3)Use some other clever timeout function.
Before you ask. I cannot post my code as my boss is convinced it is a privacy issue.
