Twice now, the ATO from my reef-pi has ran much longer than it should. The first time it ran for over a minute, the second, it ran for a little over 20 seconds. It's not the float sticking. My setup:
Reef-pi 3.4 running on pi zero w. ATO consists of small 120VAC submersible pump powered by reef-pi via adj power strip, marinedepot float switch, and a 5 gallon bucket of RODI water. I have reef-pi configured to check the float switch every 7 seconds and to alert me if runs more than 10 seconds.
In testing, this worked great, and typically, 7 seconds is enough time to top off from evaporation with the pump I'm using. When I got alerted the first time, it kept running for a little over 1 minute and I got alerted multiple times. I got to the tank shortly after, and the float was up, so I don't know what happened. The second time, I was in the house when I got alerted, ran to the tank, the float again was up, but it was still pumping, the water level was well above where it should be. It stopped after running a little over 20 seconds.
Can reef-pi handle checking every second? I'm wondering if it's not checking often enough our quickly enough. Can it miss a cycle?
I've also added a second float and set reefpi to monitor it - if the water level gets to high, it should detect it on this float, and I have a macro it will trigger to shut off power to the ATO pump and return pump.
Reef-pi 3.4 running on pi zero w. ATO consists of small 120VAC submersible pump powered by reef-pi via adj power strip, marinedepot float switch, and a 5 gallon bucket of RODI water. I have reef-pi configured to check the float switch every 7 seconds and to alert me if runs more than 10 seconds.
In testing, this worked great, and typically, 7 seconds is enough time to top off from evaporation with the pump I'm using. When I got alerted the first time, it kept running for a little over 1 minute and I got alerted multiple times. I got to the tank shortly after, and the float was up, so I don't know what happened. The second time, I was in the house when I got alerted, ran to the tank, the float again was up, but it was still pumping, the water level was well above where it should be. It stopped after running a little over 20 seconds.
Can reef-pi handle checking every second? I'm wondering if it's not checking often enough our quickly enough. Can it miss a cycle?
I've also added a second float and set reefpi to monitor it - if the water level gets to high, it should detect it on this float, and I have a macro it will trigger to shut off power to the ATO pump and return pump.
