Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

The SCAN field lets you choose from .1, .2, .5, 1, 2, 5, or 10 seconds. In cases where this is not enough, is there a simple way to make a record process at other intervals such as 2.7 seconds or 5.4 seconds, specified at runtime? I know you can add options for more periods of the SCAN field by editing dbd files, but you cannot change your mind at runtime.

 

I envision something like this:

 

record(timer, “BL0:mytimer”){

                field(PERI, 2.7)

                field(FLNK, “BL0:mytrigger”)

}

 

And then subfields to enable/disable it.  

 

Does anything like this exist? I would imagine that something like this would be very generally useful.

 

Alex