12f675_fuse_about_to_blow!

[mackrackit]

While the value is in the EEPROM you can not go anything with it. You have to read the value into a variable, do something with it and write it back into the EEPROM.

I think that is what you are asking...

[LEDave]

I think that is what you are asking...

Spot on.

Dave

[LEDave]

I can almost hear mackrackit tapping his fingers on the table............!

Working really hard on this, I know what I want to do, I just need a breakthrough. At the moment I'm going around in circles.

I'll see what I can come up with tonight.


Tap, tap, tap...Stop it mackrackit...lol.

[mackrackit]

Going around in circles?
You mean stuck in a loop

tap tap tap
that is funny

[LEDave]

You mean stuck in a loop

Yep,exactly that

If I can't crack it by tomorrow night I'm going to have to ask for a pointer. I was going to ask for one tonight but I think I'm in the right ball park for a small break through (he typed deludedly but hopefully).

Dave

[LEDave]

Mmmm,

You mean stuck in a loop

Cryptic I know but are you 'hinting' that the way to do part two of the mission, namely:

Total parts run before M/C stops for maintenance For each run

Is to have the Total count (part one of mission) actually run inside a WORD size loop and Total parts run is actually the loop count itself? So that whenever the loop stops (ie, MC stops) that value is then written to EEPROM as Total parts run?

The thinking would then be that Total count just carries on and parts run ie the loop count resets to zero and then starts again on power up.

Dave

[mackrackit]

The thinking would then be that Total count just carries on and parts run ie the loop count resets to zero and then starts again on power up.

And writes to a different EEPROM location each time. So if you have five start ups you will have five EEPROM locations (10 actually, 2 per WORD), plus the pair of locations for the TOTAL.