hi all, I have no problems when entering a constant into the argument of a delay function. but when I enter a variable I can't get any result at all. Here is an example of what I mean.
digitalWrite(11, HIGH);
delayMicroseconds(15);
digitalWrite(11, LOW);
delayMicroseconds(25);
Now if I put a variable in place of the 15 and 25 I just get mv voltage at pin11. The above program gives a pseudo analog voltage. To get a different voltage all you have to do is change the constants. But it is not working for a variable in place of the constants Why?
I am using the arduino nano board.

 

hi den.
Post your sketch header showing the Variable definitions.
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Although its not stated explicitly there are several examples that demonstrate that delayMicroseconds() takes a single unsigned integer constant value between 4 and 16384 and not a variable. I found this out myself the hard way too (though I've not tried using it with a declared constant variable). So:

delayMicroseconds(10); //works OK

#define DLY 10
delayMicroseconds(DLY); //works OK

const unsigned int x = 10;
delayMicroseconds(x); //not tried this, but should work

unsigned int y = 10;
delayMicroseconds(y); //tried this, definitely doesn't work for me