elapsed timer

[mlewis]

I am new to LabView and have an elapsed timer .vi that is not counting down. I am using this to control a heaters run time, and I want it to show the time I started the test and the elapsed time of the test,  with the added control of adding or removing hours of test. I have recently upgraded to 8.6 from 8.5 and that is when the .vi stopped working correctly. Any suggestions would be great.

[gosenbach]

I changed your "less than or equal to" to a "greater than or equal to" and it seems to work just fine.

Greg

[jon_mcbee]

Hi Mlewis.  I am not sure why your vi stopped working after the upgrade.  I put a little program together that does what you want in a different way (It is an example you can modify to suit your needs).  I have used an Action Engine as a way to keep track of the elapsed time:

( see here: http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&thread.id=240328&view=by_date_ascending&page=1 )

 and I took out the local variable.  Feel free to ask questions if you have any.

Attached VI's are in 8.6 

(Having trouble attaching VI's, will try again shortly) 

Message Edited by jmcbee on 10-13-2008 11:50 AM

[jon_mcbee · Accepted solution]

Here are the VI's.  For some reason Google Chrome has trouble attaching files to this message board...

[mlewis]

Thank you for the help, it is working now.