6085 and safe controller

[LakeGirl]

Greetings fellow reefers-
Lost my Aquacontroller programming in a failed software upgrade. Boo!
Rather reluctantly, upgraded to the next generation. The Apex is now up and running.

I had two Turbelle Stream pumps running in a sequence that resulted in a mix of off/on series where they would run together, singly,both off at times, etc.

I seem to recall some advice from this forum:
First-- don't run in on/off cycles less than 10 minutes apart?? These pumps aren't intended to run on a true wave maker.
Second-- some program language for changing intervals of run time

Seems like I set up something that ran one pump every 20 mins on / 15 mins off, and the other one maybe 40 mins on / 15 mins off.

Random would have been better, but I felt it important to be very conservative with the cycling parameters.

Can anyone help point me to this past advice, or any new wisdom/tricks??

Many thanks!!

 

[shawnz28]

6085s cannot be ran in intervals shorter than 15 minutes.

Pump one
Fallback On
OSC 0:00/20:00/15:00 Then ON
If FeedA 000 Then Off

Pump two
Fallback ON
OSC 15:00/40:00/0:00 Then ON
If FeedA 000 Then Off

 

[LakeGirl]

Thanks, that's it!

 

[rvitko]

I just wanted to add that the longer the delay, the better, the props can break from the hard starts and they will chatter on start up. The first sign of a broken prop is a pump stuck spinning backwards.