# Scan Class Phasing

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/scan-class-phasing/3734>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [December 12, 2011, 5:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/scan-class-phasing/3734 "2011-12-12T17:03:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dravik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Dravik](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Dravik)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2011, 5:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/scan-class-phasing/3734/1 "2011-12-12T17:03:34Z")

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The ability to offset individual scan class executions would be very handy.

For example, I have 24 Ge Multilin devices(In 3 sets of 8 ) I am requesting data from over Modbus. Since I’m using a 5 sec rate, I’d like to be able to offset the requests for each set of 8 by about a second just to smooth out the traffic.