InTouch 10.0 - Hours and minutes couter

Hi I don't know how to make counter which will count how many hours and minutes a motor is running!?

I have one tag which represent motor status of running (td1), 0=not running and 1=running. I have many motor where I have to do this couter.

I only managed to get start and end date and time and that's it.

In Data Change Script I placed this code:

Tagname[.field]:td1
IF td1 == 1 THEN
day1 =$Day;
month1 =$Month;
hour1 = $Hour;
minutes1 = $Minute;

ELSE IF td1==0 THEN

day2 =$Day;
month2 =$Month;
hour2 = $Hour;
minutes2 = $Minute;
ENDIF;
ENDIF;

Can someone please help me.
Thanks,M

why are you looking at the dates and times? are you trying to log when the motors start and stop?

if you only want a run timer you need to use a condition script that runs every 60 seconds. if the motor status is on add 1 to the minutes1 tag. then you can use math to determine how many hours the motor has run by dividing it by 60 on the screen.

give us a clear and concise explanation of how you want it to work and we can help.

This is best done in the PLC, & use WW to read the PLC value.

As far as I am aware, this is normal practice for most systems I have seen anyways.
Our standard code has current running minutes (accurate to +/- 1sec), no of starts, total run hours, & how long the device has been off for.

lostcontrol said:

This is best done in the PLC, & use WW to read the PLC value.

As far as I am aware, this is normal practice for most systems I have seen anyways.
Our standard code has current running minutes (accurate to +/- 1sec), no of starts, total run hours, & how long the device has been off for.

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I have asked if this is possible to do in PLC but they said that they can't do this.

This is the answer that I got:
The criteria for the hour counter is that when fan is running the hours accumulate, it should also be possible to reset the hour counter. The logic has to be made by you as there is no logic in the plc for this. I guess the only option you have to do the logic is to use the fan running tag.

if they cant do it in the plc then you need to find someone that can. thats a very simple task and is the best way to do it reliably.

if you want to do it in the wonderware explain exactly how you want it to work and I can help you write the script. it wont be accurate to the second like a plc would but if you can live with it being off a little then it will work fine.

i agree with the folks above, the most common practice is to do it in the PLC. What kind of PLC do you use?

if you are trying to get a timestamp of the Start/ Stop times of the fan you can use a string tag. but if you want to know how long the fan has been turned ON/ OFF you do the logic that was presented by diat150.