Apex a little overboard on alarms

[Carl C]

Every minute

 

[Dine]

Not sure what that code is meant to tell you but if it’s not something you want to know about ASAP I’d change the conditions that trigger the alarm.

 

[TheHarold]

Every minute

The issue is that the switch is being triggered repeatedly, on and off. To avoid this you should put a defer statement before turning on- like “defer 5 then on”. That way the float switch needs to be in the triggered position for 5 solid minutes before it triggers the alarm.

 

[SuncrestReef]

What is Swx3_4? As mentioned above, a Defer timer usually helps, though depending on what the switch is it may be more appropriate to only defer for a few seconds.

You might also want to monitor it via a virtual output with the defer, then alert on the status of the virtual output.

See my tutorial on Apex Alarm programming for examples: https://www.reef2reef.com/ams/neptune-apex-programming-tutorials-part-6-alarms.707/

 

[Carl C]

The issue is that the switch is being triggered repeatedly, on and off. To avoid this you should put a defer statement before turning on- like “defer 5 then on”. That way the float switch needs to be in the triggered position for 5 solid minutes before it triggers the alarm.

thats great thanks for helping