# BOOL Alarm Active Delay Behavior

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bool-alarm-active-delay-behavior/96665>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81\
**Created:** [October 1, 2024, 3:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bool-alarm-active-delay-behavior/96665 "2024-10-01T15:39:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 1, 2024, 3:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bool-alarm-active-delay-behavior/96665/1 "2024-10-01T15:39:53Z")

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I have a boolean tag that has 2 alarms configured.

1. Setpoint = 0
2. Setpoint = 1

Other than that the rest of the settings are identical. Each one has an active delay of 10 seconds (bound to a different tag in the UDT) and a clear delay of 0 seconds.

The boolean tag itself toggles on/off fairly rapidly (~300 ms).

The way I would _expect_ this to work is that neither alarm (1 or 2) would go off unless the boolean tag stayed at a constant value for more than 10 seconds. Alarm 1 would go off if it stayed at value 0 for more than 10 seconds and alarm 2 would go off if it stayed at value 1 for more than 10 seconds. - Is this how it works?

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2024, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bool-alarm-active-delay-behavior/96665/2 "2024-10-01T15:55:07Z")

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Sounds about right, but would be sensitive to how fast you are actually sampling this boolean. Probably needs to be every ~150ms to be reliable.

(Sounds like a job for the PLC, really.)