OSC stopped for an hour??? - RESOLVED

[markalot]

I'm using an OSC command to dose my topoff rather than float switches. This morning I noticed that it stopped for a little over an hour, then started back up.

It's an advanced outlet with just 2 lines of code.

Fallback OFF
OSC 000:00/000:30/015:00 Then ON

The XML output:

<name>Kalk_Topoff_</name>
<value>ON</value></record>
<record><date>07/30/2014 05:51:00</date>
<name>Kalk_Topoff_</name>
<value>OFF</value></record>
<record><date>07/30/2014 06:06:00</date>
<name>Kalk_Topoff_</name>
<value>ON</value></record>
<record><date>07/30/2014 06:06:30</date>
<name>Kalk_Topoff_</name>
<value>OFF</value></record>
<record><date>07/30/2014 07:35:46</date>
<name>VarSpd3_I3</name>
<value>PF3</value></record>
<record><date>07/30/2014 07:35:46</date>
<name>VarSpd4_I4</name>
<value>PF4</value></record>
<record><date>07/30/2014 07:35:46</date>
<name>SumpFan_3</name>
<value>ON</value></record>
<record><date>07/30/2014 07:35:46</date>
<name>Skimmer_4</name>
<value>ON</value></record>
<record><date>07/30/2014 07:35:46</date>
<name>SumpCircPump</name>
<value>ON</value></record>
<record><date>07/30/2014 07:39:00</date>
<name>Kalk_Topoff_</name>
<value>ON</value></record>
<record><date>07/30/2014 07:39:30</date>
<name>Kalk_Topoff_</name>
<value>OFF</value></record>

A power failure that no one noticed is reported at the same time it started back up.

<power><failed>07/30/2014 07:35:14</failed>
<restored>07/30/2014 07:35:46</restored></power>

software="4.31_3B14" hardware="1.0"


I'm new at this but up until now have not had a problem setting the APEX up. Any rhyme or reason to what might have happened?

 

[markalot]

Woops, apologies. There is one clock in the house blinking so apparently we did have a short power failure which means it probably just lost some data.



If anyone sees any issues with what I'm doing and wants to respond please let me have it. Thanks.

 

[gregr]

I'd want to add at least one other failsafe in case the pump got stuck on or died and stopped topping off. Have you got a salinity probe that would indicate a problem? Or I guess the pH would start to change eventually so you could use that, but salinity would be faster. Also, you could create a virtual outlet to act as a timer for the top off pump. If the pump stays on too long the virtual outlet would trigger an alarm and kill the pump.

 

[markalot]

Thanks for the idea greg.