[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by Dave Scheck

Max

You can try something like this to set the pwm value to 127 after 30 loops:

void pulse(void)
{
  static int loop_count = 0;
  if(loop_count < 30)
  {
    pwm06 = 254;
  }
  else
  {
    pwm06 = 127;
  }
  loop_count++;
}

Then, you would want to call this in your main loop. Note that this method never resets loop_count, so this would run for 30 loops at 254 and then stop.

As Dave said.. when you want to keep track of how many times something has looped, use a counter variable. You should try to stay away from while and for loops in your code. Even when you are in your Default Routine, you are still nested within a while loop that will execute the default routine 39 times per second.