Enabletime affected by Sleep?

[jon_nic]

is Enalbletime command affected by sleep command?

I want to start the eleapsed time counter by "enabletime" command, do some other code then put the Picaxe to sleep using "sleep xx" command. Will the elapsed timer still continue to count the seconds when in sleep mode ?

thanks

 

[hippy]

The elapsed time will not increment whilst executing a sleep command.

 

[AllyCat]

Hi Jon,

Note that enabletime (on) is the default after a power-up/reset, and that the accuracy of "time" may be affected by any "blocking" commands.

As hippy says, sleep stops the updating of the time variable. What you could try is a SLEEP 5, followed by a TIME = TIME + 6, since a SLEEP 1 lasts about 1.2 seconds.

It really depends what accuracy you want. TIME is only moderately accurate, it should be better than +/- 1%, and can be adjusted a little with CALIBFREQ, but it depends on the code instructions used in your program. The Microchip specification for the SLEEP period is much worse (it uses the Watchdog timer) but in practice may be acceptable.

Cheers, Alan

 

[jon_nic]

thanks, I wont let the picaxe sleep then.