Clarisea Mod For Apex Control With Optical Sensor

[SuncrestReef]

@SuncrestReef

is the min time off statement necessary in both
Klir and Klircontrol? I recently changed the timing on both of those statements to 15 minutes. Today i had a strange situation where the osc function spun the motor but for some reason within 15 min the float tripped and the klirlimit switched on and stayed on but because the float remained up it never shut off and therefor did not roll again. I think it might have had something to do with the defer timing so i increased that. Im also going to change the min time to 5 minutes but want to clean it up if i dont need it in both...

Notice in my code there was a 4 second Min Time ON which exactly matched the 4 seconds ON of the OSC command. If you only changed the Min Time value to 15 minutes but left the OSC at 4 seconds, then every single time the OSC runs the Min Time will force it to remain On for 15 minutes. I really doubt that's what you intended. The Min Time 000:04 Then ON was needed to make it run for 4 seconds only when manually triggered by the physical button.

This was a carefully-crafted solution. Be sure you thoroughly understand what it's designed to do before tinkering with the timers. If you want it to run for different amounts of time when manually triggered but only 4 seconds on the OSC schedule, then the whole thing needs to be re-architected because you can't accomplish that by just changing the Min Time value.

 

[infinite0180]

Notice in my code there was a 4 second Min Time ON which exactly matched the 4 seconds ON of the OSC command. If you only changed the Min Time value to 15 minutes but left the OSC at 4 seconds, then every single time the OSC runs the Min Time will force it to remain On for 15 minutes. I really doubt that's what you intended. The Min Time 000:04 Then ON was needed to make it run for 4 seconds only when manually triggered by the physical button.

This was a carefully-crafted solution. Be sure you thoroughly understand what it's designed to do before tinkering with the timers. If you want it to run for different amounts of time when manually triggered but only 4 seconds on the OSC schedule, then the whole thing needs to be re-architected because you can't accomplish that by just changing the Min Time value.

Heres what i was running:

[KlirControl] -- VO
Set OFF
If S_KLIR CLOSED Then ON
If Output KlirLimit = ON Then OFF
Min Time 015:00 Then OFF

[KlirLimit] -- VO
Set OFF
If S_KLIR CLOSED Then ON
Defer 000:04 Then ON

[Klir]
Fallback OFF
OSC 000:00/000:01/239:59 Then ON
If Output KlirControl = ON Then ON
Min Time 000:04 Then ON
Min Time 015:00 Then OFF
If Output ReturnPump = OFF Then OFF

Here is my day from noon on. Take a look at 4pm, when i got home and saw what was happening i manually shut klirlimit off at 6:22pm.

18	2021-03-22 12:00:00	Klir ON
19	2021-03-22 12:00:05	Klir OFF
20	2021-03-22 12:14:48	Heater1 ON
21	2021-03-22 12:27:31	TmpHighPower ON
22	2021-03-22 12:27:31	Heater2 ON
23	2021-03-22 13:15:00	T5-2 ON
24	2021-03-22 13:15:00	T5-Fan ON
25	2021-03-22 14:30:00	T5-4 ON
26	2021-03-22 15:00:04	TmpHighPower OFF
27	2021-03-22 15:00:04	Heater2 OFF
28	2021-03-22 16:00:00	Klir ON
29	2021-03-22 16:00:05	Klir OFF
30	2021-03-22 16:11:29	KlirControl ON
31	2021-03-22 16:11:33	KlirLimit ON
32	2021-03-22 16:11:33	KlirControl OFF
33	2021-03-22 16:31:00	Feeder ON
34	2021-03-22 16:31:30	Feeder OFF
35	2021-03-22 16:49:33	TmpHighPower ON
36	2021-03-22 16:49:33	Heater2 ON
37	2021-03-22 18:22:08	KlirLimit OFF
38	2021-03-22 18:22:08	KlirControl ON
39	2021-03-22 18:22:08	Klir ON
40	2021-03-22 18:22:12	KlirControl OFF
41	2021-03-22 18:22:13	Klir OFF
42	2021-03-22 18:35:20	TmpHighPower OFF
43	2021-03-22 18:35:20	Heater2 OFF

I had changed the osc function to 1 sec to simplify the code because the min time on kept it going for 4 sec regardless....

 

[infinite0180]

@SuncrestReef

it appears what happened was at 4pm the roller advanced like it should but within 15 min the water was dirty enough to lift the float. Because it was within 15 min of 4pm the klir did not turn on but klirlimit was activated as it should because the float lifted for more than 4 sec. The float remained in the open position and kept klirlimit on even after the 15 min expired. If i did not intervene then it would have all corrected itself at 8pm. My thought is to lower the 15 min off time to something closer to 5 min, that way its only preventing a stuck float switch, which is the goal. Any thoughts?

 

[David Cher]

So I got tired of the Clarisea controller beeping and being annoying so I decided to cut it off and directly wire it into the power adapter it came with. Lo and behold, the roller turns on when plugged in which makes it a great fit for the Apex!

My current program turns on the fleece roller for 4 seconds every 25 minutes:

Fallback OFF
OSC 000:00/000:04/025:00 Then ON

I was interested in adding in an optical sensor here to turn on for 4 seconds if the sensor is closed and wait 15 mins between times that its allowed to turn on again. Does this code look kosher to ya'll?

Fallback OFF
Set OFF
OSC 000:00/000:04/025:00 Then ON
If OS1 CLOSED Then ON
If OS1 OPEN Then OFF
Defer 000:04 Then OFF
Min Time 015:00 Then OFF

@stacksoner how did you hardwired it ?

 

[stacksoner]

@stacksoner how did you hardwired it ?

You need to cut off the control module on the cord, splice both wires, and connect them.

What's cool is that you can make the roll spin in either direction depending on which way you connect the two ends.

 

[David Cher]

@stacksoner do you happened to have any picture ?