Connections For Rain Gage - Campbell CR510 Operator's Manual

TD ADDENDUM—SECTION 8. PROCESSING AND PROGRAM CONTROL EXAMPLES
8.4 INTERRUPT SUBROUTINE USED
TO COUNT SWITCH CLOSURES
(RAIN GAGE)
Subroutines given the label of 97 or 98 will be
executed when control ports 7 or 8,
respectively, go high (5 V, see Instruction 85,
Section 12). In this example, Subroutine 98 and
control port 8 are substituted for a pulse
counting channel to count switch closures on a
tipping bucket rain gage.
The subroutine adds 0.254 (mm, bucket
calibrated for 0.01 inch tip) to an input location
and uses Instruction 22 to delay 0.2 seconds.
The delay is to insure that any switch bouncing
(when closing, the contacts actually bounce off
each other, making and breaking the circuit
several times) has died out before the
subroutine is completed. (The pulse count
inputs do this automatically.) Without the delay,
the subroutine could be completed and called
again by a bounce, causing false counts. The
interrupt has no effect while the subroutine is
still being executed.
Subroutine 98 is in effect keeping a running
total in Input Storage. On the output interval,
this total is sampled to Final Storage and
zeroed by the program in Program Table 1.
To provide comparison, this example has the 2
pulse inputs also reading rain gages. (In a real
situation, it is more likely that the pulse counters
would be used for 2 wind speeds.) In Program
Table 1, the 2 normal pulse inputs are read and
the hourly totals output to Final Storage with
Instruction 72.
The rain gage is connected as diagrammed
below. When the switch closes, 5 volts is
applied to port 8 which causes the subroutine to
be executed.
FIGURE 8.4-1. Connections for Rain Gage
Input location Assignments:
10:Rain_1 (from Pulse count)
11:Rain_2 (from Pulse count)
12:Rain_3 (from subroutine 98 while
Output Flag is low)
* 1 Table 1 Programs
01: 10 Sec. Execution Interval
01: P3 Pulse
01: 2 Reps
02: 1 Pulse Input Chan
03: 2 Switch closure
04: 10 Loc [:Rain_1 ]
05: .254 Mult
06: 0 Offset
02: P84 Data Table
01: 0 Seconds into interval
02: 3600 Seconds interval
03: 0 Records (0=auto; -=redirect)
03: P72 Totalize
01: 2 Reps
02: 10 Loc Rain_1
04: P70 Sample
01: 1 Reps
02: 12 Loc Rain_3
05: P92 If time is
01: 0 seconds into a
02: 3600 second interval
03: 30 Then Do
06: P30 Z=F
01: 0 F
02: 0 Exponent of 10
03: 12 Z Loc [:Rain_3 ]
07: P95 End
08: P End Table 1
* 3 Table 3 Subroutines
01: P85 Beginning of Subroutine
01: 98 Subroutine Number
02: P 34 Z=X+F
01: 12 X Loc Rain_3
02: .254 F
03: 12 Z Loc [:Rain_3 ]
03: P22 Excitation with Delay
01: 1 EX Chan
02: 0 Delay w/EX (units=.01sec)
03: 20 Delay after EX (units=.01sec)
04: 0 mV Excitation
04: P95 End
05: P End Table 3
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