Runtime display for last 24 hours

Question

I'm working on a BRX PLC connected to a C-More HMI. I'm using Do-More Designer to write ladder code. I'm looking for ladder logic that will give me the runtime of a circulating pump in the last 24 hours. I want something that updates every minute and displays as HH:MM on the HMI. I've included a visual representation of what I'm looking for.

Answer 1

One way to do this is with a FIFO (First-In-First-Out) structure. On the Do-More PLC, the relevant instructions are FIFOLOAD and FIFOUNLOAD. Because you want the display to update each minute, you need to keep track of runtime during the current minute, perhaps with an accumulating timer (TMRA). At the end of the minute, you unload the data for the minute that happened 24 hours ago (the oldest minute in the structure), load the data for the minute that just passed, and then add up the data for all of the minutes in the structure so you can update the display. There are 1440 minutes in a 24-hour period, so that is how big your data block will need to be.

As an alternative to adding up 1440 values every minute, you can keep the running total in a separate variable, and then each minute you can subtract the value you unload and add the value that you load.