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NB DESIGNER NUMBER INPUT

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Hi, I've been trying to use the number display on NB designer HMI. it is connected to an NX1 Controller with sysmac studio as the automation software. I have a timer on my program and i want to display it to my hmi screen. However, the screen of tge number display keeps on blinking with "****" and random numbers and not showing the elapsed time of my timer in plc. Thanks in advance! 

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I don't know for sure but I highly doubt the NB is capable of displaying Sysmac Studio 'TIME' data type. I would convert 'TIME' to 'UINT' then try to display on the NB.

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Thanks. I converted the time first using timetosec, then used lint to uint converter. The seconds could now appear on the display.
However, I have another problem. The display is fine from numbers 1 to 9, but instead of continuing to 10, it would show asterisks again, then after maybe 5 sec, number 10 will then appear and will increment up to 19, then asterisk will be displayed, and after 5 sec again, number 20 will appear until 29th, then asterisk again, and so on...

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I don't know much about the NB. It sounds like the NB is expecting a BCD value and you are supplying a UINT. See if you can find a setting in your NB data display to change the data type to integer or decimal. 

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