> Currently I can turn the motor on and of but am having trouble 
> making it
> pause.

> Does anyone know how to do this?

Looks like this is your first post - welcome to the list.

Your problem is probably better phrased either "can someone tell me 
how to program" or "how do I control an electric motor".
That is,  you have already described the problem in English language 
pseudo code. You know what you want to do. What you need to know is 
how to "run" a PIC. Starting with the "hello world"/"flash a LED" type 
program and getting competent with that is probably the path to what 
you want to do.

Re your specific question above - as phrased it doesn't seem to make 
sense. If you can turn the motor off, then it will pause, so 
apparently you mean something different from what it appears you mean. 
Can you break your problem down into smaller simpler parts so we can 
understand what you are trying to achieve and what parts you are 
finding hard?

Otherwise:

MState = hall switch level

Turn motor on

Do 5 times
    wait until hall switch level <> MState
    wait until hall switch level = MState
end do

Turn motor off.

_________

Along the way to turning that into real code you will learn quite a 
lot about debounce, motor acceleration and speed and quite a few other 
related things :-)

Ask more questions and provide more detail and we should be able to 
help.



        Russell McMahon


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