Elapsed time delay does that once in the state machine

Hello.  I have problems using the delay to show the seconds remaining on an expectation not in a simple state machine.  I have a front panel countdown indicating the time remaining for the step.  I thought that the delay of elapsed time was the way to do.  The problem is the vi work correctly the first time.  But then after that the calendar does not seem to reset at the time I had put.  If I remove the delay and just stick a waiting time in the State, the vi is exhausted because I expect.  This is just to give the user an idea of the time remaining.  What I missing when using the passage of time, or it's just the wrong tool for the job?

A small question, is that I would like to move the tasks, in this case the LED outside of the loop, so I don't have to repeat the code.  But when I tried moving them outside with only allow constants within the State, they do not work as I expected.  If you have tasks such as operating a set of Boolean values that you are used in several States, what is the the cleaner way to do it without repeating the code?

Thanks for the help.

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