Skimmer & Reactor code

[djkms]

Hi guys,

When I do my daily feeding I also feed phytoplankon to my tank. I want my skimmer and carbon reactor to shutoff for 8 hours when feed mode A is activated. For some reason after a couple of hours the skimmer and reactor turn back on. Here is my code, is it correct? If not what do I need to change?

SkimmerPump
Fallback ON
Set ON
If Outlet SumpFloat = ON Then OFF
If Outlet MainPump = OFF Then OFF
Defer 001:00 Then ON
If FeedD 001 Then OFF
If FeedA 480 Then OFF

Is the 1min defer maybe messing it up?

Reactors
Fallback ON
Set ON
If Outlet SumpFloat = ON Then OFF
If FeedA 480 Then OFF

Thanks for your help.

 

[aquamanic]

The time you have AFTER the FeedA or FeedD statement is not the feed time. It's the time AFTER the feed mode ends normally to have this outlet remain OFF. So if FeedA was 20 minutes, this statement would have the outlet off 500 minutes - the 20 minutes for the FeedA cycle PLUS another 480 minutes:

If FeedA 480 Then OFF

Check the Feed Interval via your display module or if you have 4.05 firmware, on the Misc Setup web page.

 

[djkms]

Thats how I understood it as well. So if FeedA was 3 minutes during then the outlet should be off for 483 minutes correct?

 

[aquamanic]

That's right, unless there's some max time in there that you're hitting.

 

[djkms]

If that is the case I suppose the way around it would be a virtual outlet with a statement like:
Feed
If FeedA 000 Then ON
Defer 480:00 Then OFF

Then a statement in my SkimmerPump

If Outlet Feed = ON Then OFF

 

[RussM]

I seem to recall mention of a max limit in If FeedX nnn values. 240 or 360 I think. I'd fire out an email to support@Neptunesys.com to ask.

 

[djkms]

Talking to Curt about it now. He is not aware of a limitation but we are looking into it.