5 Second Average Interval

[MaxDAQ]

Hello all! New to the forum, I am so glad to have other like-minded individuals to communicate with as I unravel some legacy code.

I have Dasylab exporting 5 second average data to Excel, which is then manipulated using a macro file. So the time stamps may have the second-intervals as :00 & :05, :01 & :06, :02 & :07, :03 & :08, or :04 & 09. There have been cases of people stopping and restarting Dasylab, which causes the time stamp sometimes shift the time-second interval. So there's only a 20% chance that you end up on the same time-second interval when you restart it.

Ideally, I would love these time stamps to automatically be in only intervals of :00 & :05. Is there any way to ensure Dasylab starts on one these? 

Sincere thanks to any help you guys can offer!

[CJ_Butler__DASYLab_Pro]

Hi,

Welcome to the forum. 

I'n not sure that we can force DASYLab to use a time stamp that is consistently :00 or :05. The clock ticks start when you click the Start Measurement button, and that may not be on the 0 or five second mark. 

I'm going to try a test where I use a Time Base module to tick seconds, and see if that is more reliable. 

[MaxDAQ]

Thanks CJ!

It is certainly proving to be a difficult problem. I have considered potentially coding something in VBA to handle this, but the existing code is already pretty resource intensive, so I'm hesitant to pile on more.