Stop Watch / Count / Reset

[mFokus]

Hi,

I am new to the Forum but have some 1,400 hours experience playing Factorio.
So far, I have made very limited use of circuit networks. A little counting to activate belts and inserters, that's all.
I have now started looking into timers and counters and encountered some issues.

This is, what I have:

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This inserts ticks (T) and gives seconds (S), minutes (M), hours (H) and days (D):



Here is what I want to do with this:

• Start the timer with some input. I will probably use a crate as trigger (something is in crate = run, crate is empty = reset timer).

• Stop the timer when a certain quantity of a certain element is reached.

• Reset the clock (T=0, S=0, M=0, H=0, D=0) when said crate is emptied (or any other mechanism, if that's easier).

I hope this makes sense. Sitting at home with Covid at not quite on top...

Thanks!

[Amarula]

You may find the wiki tutorial helpful: https://wiki.factorio.com/Tutorial:Comb ... sic_clocks

[mFokus]

Thanks @amurala.
Here again, I only see a solution for resetting and immediately restarting the timer. I have that implemented for the minutes / seconds calculations.
I am looking for a solution to pause the clock and reset it when I decide to start over.
Or am I misinterpreting the tutorial?

[asheiduk]

A quick idea is this:

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C=Counter/Clock
T=Tick (1: Clock is running, 0: Clock is stopped)
R=Reset (0: Clock is running, !=0: Reset counter)

Another quick idea: I think it is easier to have simple counter which is incremented. The HH:MM:SS conversion can be done after that by simple modulo calculations.