Automated tester of circuit boards

I am developing code in labview to perform automated testing on various circuit boards. If you take a look at my program so far I am using stacked sequence that performs various steps in each sequence with various time delays. As you can see a lot of the same tests are performed over and over again such as checking ACC Cold, Ignition Cold, and +12V Machine. You can also see that I have an LED on the front panel for everytime one of those are checked, ideally though what I want is just one LED for each of those tests that will come on and off between each step/sequence to let me know that each step is performing the way it is supposed to. Also what I have not yet been able to figure out is how at the end of the testing to turn off all the LEDs that are still on because currently they stay on permanently until I exit out of labview and get back in. Also you can see that in each stacked sequence I have a text box saying what is going on, I know there is a way to have that message displayed on the front panel and have it change between every sequence...eventually I want to have error messages put in place so if one of the steps failed such as checking the ACC Cold an error message would pop up on the front panel. I know this is a lot but if you have time take a look at my program attached and give me some feedback.
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I also noticed frame 4 "Apply: +12V Machine Wait: 1.5 sec". I once learned long time ago that this is the wrong way of doing it, because you might end up with "Wait: 1.5 sec Apply: +12V Machine ". Since you have no control of the execution order in this case. This because there are no dataflow between the "Apply: +12V Machine " and "Wait: 1.5 sec" functions. A frame should be used in this case
Besides which, my opinion is that Express VIs Carthage must be destroyed deleted
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I finally got my program working for my automated testing on circuit boards...what I am trying to figure out is how to display errors on the front panel if one occurs. Right now its setup where its just showing that the test passed regardless if theres an error or not because of the boolean control next to the left shift register. How do I make it so that if one of the tests fails that the boolean on the front panel will display "FAILED"??? Im assuming I have to have some sort of digital logic in there such as an and gate or something....
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cmhand wrote:
I finally got my program working for my automated testing on circuit boards...what I am trying to figure out is how to display errors on the front panel if one occurs. Right now its setup where its just showing that the test passed regardless if theres an error or not because of the boolean control next to the left shift register. How do I make it so that if one of the tests fails that the boolean on the front panel will display "FAILED"??? Im assuming I have to have some sort of digital logic in there such as an and gate or something....Are you saying you want to check the error cluster and if there is an error, display failed? Why not use unbundle by name to get the error status. Then wire it to your indicator?
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