Managing Continuous Operation of Flame Machine with Sleep Function

[rama1001]

Hi,
I am correcting a C code which was written for a flame machine. My desire is to give a burst cool time when the machine working continuously. In deep, user could have the facility to enter the flame time and cool time before a continuous operation. So, i exactly want to off the current when user time met the flame time and then cool period starts here and so on continuously.
I thought of using Sleep function with an argument of user entered cool time. Is this handle other interrupts in this period? Or any other suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[anorlunda]

Yes, the sleep function is appropriate. But you don't give enough information for us to say more.

Interrupt? Are you writing an interrupt handler?What operating system?

Do you have a library to handle turning current on/off?

Does this process run forever?

Lots of questions.