RE: Running-Timer

[Kurtis Martineau <klmartineau-at-shaw.ca>]

The Time out of E-stop is what I am after, but the running time of EMC would
be nice to have logged as well.
The log could read: 3,153,600 glitch-free seconds - and counting!  : )

Kurtis

> -----Original Message-----
> From: emc-at-nist.gov [emc-at-nist.gov]On Behalf Of Paul
> Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 7:26 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: Re: Running-Timer
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> Hi Kurtis
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> One of the multitude of internal variables used by EMC is a timer - This
> records the time EMC is running in seconds to six decimal places.
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> It wouldn't take much to save this data to a file each time EMC
> is shut down..
>  If you were looking for the time spent out of E-stop and
> actually moving,
> this might require a little more effort.
>
> Regards, Paul.
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>
> On Friday 20 Dec 2002 6:52 pm, Kurtis Martineau wrote:
> > Has anyone incorporated a accumulating timer to keep track of
> the amount of
> > time a machine is on?  I would like to keep track of this in a way that
> > would permit EMC and/or the PC to be shut down and rebooted, and still
> > retain the accumulated running time of the machine under control.
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