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• Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514

  2019-02-13 23:01

  Please post your code inside [ code ] [ /code] blocks (without the spaces), in order to preserve the indentation.
  
  Thanks,
  -Phil
• Genetix Posts: 1,764

  2019-02-13 23:44

  Iguanaman,
  
  I don't where my copy of the book is but try using the files from here.
  ftp://ftp.propeller-chip.com/PCMProp/Chapter_04/Source/
  
  RC Time.spin
  Test Simple RCTIME.spin
• lardom Posts: 1,659

  2019-02-14 05:03

  RCTime can be found in the Propeller library directory. In PUB Go you only called PST Start. RCTime starts in another cog so you also have to call the start method for RCTime.
• ErNa Posts: 1,828

  2019-02-14 06:40

  '' Test Simple RCTIME.spin
  CON
  _clkfreq = xtal1 + pll16x
  _xinfreq = 5_000_000
  OBJ
  rc : "RCTime"
  pst : "Parallax Serial Terminal"
  
  PUB Go | tDecay
  pst.Start(115200)
  repeat
  waitcnt(clkfreq/10 + cnt)
  rc.time(18, 1, @tDecay)
  pst.Str(String(pst#CE, pst#HM, "tDecay = "))
  pst.Dec(tDecay)
  

  
  in this code there is no indentation to see. And in this case: repeat just runs forever as an empty loop.
  So please post your code again using the code tag.
  (Mark the code area and click the C button in the top area of this editor
  
  
• ChrisGadd Posts: 311

  2019-02-14 11:58

  Change rc.time(18, 1, @tDecay) to rc.rctime(18,1,@tDelay).
  
  @lardom, the RCTIME method may be run as either foreground or background.
• lardom Posts: 1,659

  2019-02-14 14:10

  I ran the code and found two mistakes:

  CON
  _clkmode = xtal1 + pll16x      'correct
  _xinfreq = 5_000_000
  {CON
  _clkfreq = xtal1 + pll16x         'error
  _xinfreq = 5_000_000}
  
  OBJ
  rc : "RCTime"
  pst : "Parallax Serial Terminal"
  
  PUB Go | tDecay
  pst.Start(115200)
  repeat
    waitcnt(clkfreq/10 + cnt)
    'rc.time(18, 1, @tDecay)             'error
    rc.RCTIME(18, 1, @tDecay)         'correct
    pst.Str(String(pst#CE, pst#HM, "tDecay = "))
    pst.Dec(tDecay)
  

  1) In the CON block, replace "_clkfreq" with "_clkmode".
  2) In the instruction "rc.time(18, 1, @tDecay)" there is no method named "time" in the RCTIME object.