Hydros Programming - No heaters during peak TOU

[Coach v]

I have been happily using hydros fror some time. I have an X4, X2, 2 @ WaveEngine LE, and several Wifi plugs and feeders running my 120 DT and basement sump setup. I am in California and trying to reign in electricity costs. Even with solar, I average about $80 per month over the past 3 years and we are planning on adding a hot tub.

Peak pricing on our plan is weekdays between 5PM and 8PM and I would like to have my heaters OFF during this time. Can someone help me program my Hydros to do this?

 

[tbrown]

Not sure if it works with heaters but on my ATO plug there's a "Has internal schedule". Set the On to 20:00 and the Off to 17:00?

 

[braaap]

Make a new output. Name it heaters off. Select advanced. Then generic. Then internal schedule and set your times.

Then go to your heater and make it depend on that heaters off output and have it off if on.

You aren’t going to save more than a couple of cents. But you might lose growth or even livestock depending on temp swings. Being in Cali you would probably be fine. But I’d lose 10 degrees more likely here in Montana.

All that for a heater schedule. Apex would have been two lines of code. This is my gripe with Coralvue and their sham marketing.