Sir I am new to Arduino
I want to stop my dc water pump after 3 sec the following is my code please suggest a better solution
thank you
#define IRsensor 2 #define DCwater_pump 13
void setup() {
// put your setup code here, to run once:
pinMode(IRsensor, INPUT);
pinMode(DCwater_pump, OUTPUT);
Serial.begin(9600);
}
int readPin = 0;
void loop()
{
// put your main code here, to run repeatedly:
readPin = digitalRead(IRsensor);
if (readPin == HIGH)
{
digitalWrite(DCwater_pump, HIGH);
Serial.println("DC Pump is OFF now!!");
delayMicroseconds(2);
}
else
{
digitalWrite(DCwater_pump, LOW);
Serial.println("DC Pump is ON Now !!");
}
Not sure exactly what you want to do. Start the pump with a LOW and 3 seconds later turn the pump off regardless of the state of the signal or run the pump as long as the signal is LOW and turn the pump off 3 seconds after the signal goes HIGH.
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To your code delayMicroseconds(2); does what its name says: delay for 0,000002 seconds.
So as a human beeing you won't recognize such a short "delay".
baldengineer.com has a very good tutorial about timing with function millis() too .
There is one paragraph that nails down the difference between function delay() and millis() down to the point:
The millis() function is one of the most powerful functions of the Arduino library. This function returns the number of milliseconds the current sketch has been running since the last reset. At first, you might be thinking, well that’s not every useful! But consider how you tell time during the day. Effectively, you look at how many minutes have elapsed since midnight. That’s the idea behind millis()!
Instead of “waiting a certain amount of time” like you do with delay(), you can use millis() to ask “how much time has passed”?
and this is the essence and the fundamental difference between blocking timing with delay() ;
and non-blocking timing with function millis();