sparky101 (Customer) asked a question.September 7, 2026 at 9:53 PMLookin for countdown timers in click plus. im only finding on-delay or off-delay thanksExpand PostClick
RogerRR (Customer)22 days agoThere are a couple of ways to get the count down value.Use a timer and subtract the accumulated value from a known value.Use a count down counter with a time based SC4 - SC6 edge contact as an input and use the accumulated value. Expand Post
ssweber (Customer)Edited September 8, 2026 at 12:20 PMAs RogerRR has said, you’d do: on_delay(Timer, Preset)calc(Preset - Timer_Acc, Countdown) # math instruction and usually, when not wanting a value in the countdown (like when not in that Step): copy(0, Countdown)Expand Post
There are a couple of ways to get the count down value.
Use a timer and subtract the accumulated value from a known value.
Use a count down counter with a time based SC4 - SC6 edge contact as an input and use the accumulated value.
As RogerRR has said, you’d do:
on_delay(Timer, Preset)
calc(Preset - Timer_Acc, Countdown) # math instruction
and usually, when not wanting a value in the countdown (like when not in that Step):
copy(0, Countdown)