[1.12.2] The best way to animate TESR

[Terrails]

I'm making a block with a TESR that has some special effects, I was just wondering what would be the best way to use a counter in TESR because its a singleton. For now I have couple of counter fields in my TileEntity class. I need those counters because I'm translating and scaling and if I use System time it wouldn't start from the beginning, but I need it to start like that because its an activation sequence.

Current TESR and Tile

 

Am I doing it totally wrong and is there a better way to do it?

[Draco18s]

Store the counter in your TE and reference it in your TESR

[Terrails]

Looks like I was doing it the right way than.