cannemi Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 How do you program a 1 second delay in He? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryanjackson Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Under the programming tab, scroll down on the right to where you see programming control. Click on it then below you will see add a delay.Ryan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cannemi Posted January 20, 2013 Author Share Posted January 20, 2013 Thanks Ryan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CFUG Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Just so you know, one second programming may not yield 1000ms response 100% of the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanE Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Right. It's typically *at least* the time value, not *exactly* the time value, as Director could be busy doing other things when the time expires.Control4's software is *not* a real-time OS.RyanE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CFUG Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 OP- what is it you are trying to accomplish? A simple TDR could give you exact duty cycles... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mas0282 Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Controlfouruserguy - would you mind explaining what a TDR is? I am interested in learning more about this topic. At the moment I just use delays in my programming (as they're easy to use) but I'm interested in learning about more efficient methods. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryanjackson Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 He's saying you could hook up a time domain reflectometer (TDR http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-domain_reflectometer) and measure the actual time a c4 1 second programming delay would be. I assume your not using this for anything sure time sensative? Ryan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CFUG Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 ^You've been standing too close to flux capacitors. TDR is time delay relay. Trip the relay off of a CA device or the HC and do your programming thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdnDesigner Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Agreed. An external relay can have more accurate pulse timing than C4 controller since controller has a lot of other things to be doing. Some external relays have their own microcontroller which doesn't have many tasks to accomplish. This allows it to be more dedicated to making the pulse last for the exact time specified by C4 settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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