Hardware timers

[Bruce]

At 20MHz, if you're using the internal clock, Timer1 will count to 65,535, then roll-over on
the next tick in just 13.1072mS with a 1:1 prescaler.

If you set the prescaler to 1:8 it would take 8 times this period before it rolls-over. The
only way you could use Timer1 for a 10 second delay period would be to monitor & count
over-flows until your 10 second period is up.

Unless you're just trying to learn to use timers, a long pause would be the easiest.

Steve has a nice utility here: http://www.mister-e.org/pages/utilitiespag.html you might
find helpful. Check out the timer helper.

[b1arrk5]

For a long delay like 9 seconds, I use Steve's calculator utility to set up a timer to go for 10 milliseconds. Then I use Darrell's Instant Interrupts, and set up an interrupt, let's say for Timer 3. I just set my variable seconds to 0, and then enable the timer interrupt. When the 10 ms. is up, the interrupt goes to the following;

'********************** TIMER 3 INTERRUPT*************************************
TIMER3INT: 'THIS INTERRUPT OCCURS EVERY 10 MILLISECONDS
TICKS = TICKS + 1 'INCREMENT TICKS
IF TICKS > 100 THEN
TICKS = 0
SECONDS = SECONDS + 1
ENDIF
@ INT_RETURN
'********************** END TIMER 3 INTERRUPT ********************************
now I just add a line in my main program to see if seconds is equal to nine, and when it is I disable the interrupt and go do what ever comes next. This works well if I'm waiting for a user to make a selection, I'll wait ten seconds, and if they don't respond, then the program will move on.

Good Luck!

Jerry.

[mitchf14]

Wow that Picmulticalc is really amazing thanks for referring me to it i will defiantly be using it.
I don't need to use a interrupt. Right now i am using a really long pause 10 sec, so when my battery charges up to 9 volts my led comes on saying the battery is fully charge. Then i have my pause that checks back in ten seconds if my battery is still full or not. The only things i don't like about this process is that for that seconds my pic hangs and all my other operations are on a alt until the 10 seconds is completed. Now i was thinking if i could figure out how to use the hardware timers, my timers could count in the background without affecting my ADC, and LCD etc.

Could anyone clarify this for me and maybe suggest a better way of doing this.

thanks