Determining The Cycle Time - IDEC SMARTRELAY User Manual

Determining the cycle time

The program cycle is the complete execution of the circuit program, that is, primarily the
reading in of the inputs, the processing of the circuit program and the subse uent writing the
outputs. The cycle time is the time re uired to execute a circuit program once in full.
ou can determine the time re uired for a program cycle using a short test program. Create
this test program in IDEC SmartRelay to return a value from which you can calculate the cycle
time.
Test program
To program this test program, follow these steps:
1. Create the test program by linking an output to a fre uency trigger and connecting the
trigger input with an inverted marker.
2. Configure the fre uency trigger as shown below. IDEC SmartRelay generates a pulse in
each program cycle due to the inverted marker. The trigger interval is 2 seconds.
3. Now start the circuit program and switch IDEC SmartRelay to parameter assignment
mode. In this mode, view the trigger parameters.
4. The reciprocal value of f
current circuit program in its memory.
1/f
a
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is e uivalent to the IDEC SmartRelay execution time of the
a
cycle time in s
B
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