Control for pump with intermittent duty cycle

[Gp!]

I have a pump with a 50% duty cycle. I am using it to move water from a storage tank to my mix tank. I have a toggle switch hooked up to a break out box that I want to use to turn it on.

I have created virtual outlet "MIX_FW_ON" to be ON when the toggle switch is flipped up and OFF when flipped down.

I have created virtual outlet "MIX_FULL" to be ON when the water level is as high as it can be without overflowing.

I have created virtual outlet "FW_EMPTY" to be on when the storage tank is empty.

I want outlet "MIX_FW_PUMP" to be on when outlet "MIX_FW_ON" is ON and "MIX_FULL" is OFF. However, I want the pump to cycle between ON and OFF every 5 minutes. Otherwise, I want the pump to be off.

Does this look right?

Fallback OFF
Set OFF
If Output MIX_FW_ON = ON Then ON
OSC 000:00/005:00/005:00 Then OFF
If Output FW_EMPTY = On Then OFF
If Output MIX_FULL = On Then OFF

 

[Tastee]

I don’t think your code will work the way you want. Don’t forget the Apex is a state machine and at the end of parsing the code the state will be either ON or OFF. The OSC command doesn’t care what the prior state was, it just sets a state of ON and OFF based on a defined cycle. So anything you put before it is overridden (e.g. your If Output MIX_FW_ON = ON Then ON).

The commands after the OSC can however change the state further. So the way to do this is to set a default state using the OSC command and then other commands to take other factors into account and change this default state.

I think below will do what you want.

Fallback OFF
Set OFF
OSC 000:00/005:00/005:00 Then ON
If Output MIX_FW_ON = OFF Then OFF
If Output FW_EMPTY = ON Then OFF
If Output MIX_FULL = ON Then OFF

 

[Gp!]

The OSC command doesn’t care what the prior state was, it just sets a state of ON and OFF based on a defined cycle. So anything you put before it is overridden (e.g. your If Output MIX_FW_ON = ON Then ON).

Are you saying that the line OSC 000:00/005:00/005:00 Then OFF sets the state to "ON" even though the assignment is "OFF"?

 

[Gp!]

I think below will do what you want.

Thanks btw! Haven't done much with advanced programming before. You got me going and I added a momentary button for forcing the pump to fill when I want a touch more