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    Question Need to delay restart of return pump on feeding only

    Folks,
    During feed cycle A and the scheduled VFeed (my virtual outlet to give two daily feedings) , I'm trying to get my powerheads (called WAV_2_6) to come on 2 minutes before my return pump to circulate the food before it gets filtered out.
    I suppose the one of the following would work, but i can't find how to implement either:
    1. return pump to have a delayed re-start of 2 minutes after completion of feed cycle
    2. powerheads to come on 2 minutes before completion of feed cycle

    I tried adding this line to ReturnPump: If Output vFeed = ON 002 Then OFF
    But, after upload and then screen refresh, it changes back to: If Output vFeed = ON Then OFF

    Please help.

    Many thanks!!
    Benjamin

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    Add this to your return pump code:

    IF FEEDA 002 THEN OFF

    The 002 adds two minutes to the default feed time, so here, your ret pump would be off for 7 minutes total, like #1 above.

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    Or, you can add these two lines:

    IF OUTPUT VFEED = ON THEN OFF
    DEFER 2:00 THEN ON.

    Just be aware that this option will delay the return pump from coming on for 2 minutes ANY time the pump is set to off. I prefer the first option, but this should be viable as well (#2)

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    Thank you Jon! The "ANY time" is what i'm trying to avoid (I suppose, but now that I think of it, what is so bad about that?). Also, i need this delay for both a manual "feed A" activation, as well as for the scheduled virtual outlet feeding.

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    Hmmm, I'm not at my system to test, but I think you can just combine the two:

    IF OUTPUT VFEED = ON THEN OFF
    IF FEEDA 000 THEN OFF
    DEFER 2:00 THEN ON


    I believe this should work.

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    Great, thanks! The delayed restart is working on cue. However, now I am unable to manually turn the return pump off from the control panel; the slider goes to off then instantly back to Auto.
    Current settings
    vFeed:
    Set OFF
    If Time 08:00 to 08:04 Then ON
    If Time 18:00 to 18:04 Then ON
    If FeedA 000 Then ON

    Return Pump:
    Fallback ON
    Set ON
    If Output vFeed = ON Then OFF
    If FeedA 000 Then OFF
    Defer 002:00 Then ON




    Quote Originally Posted by jonlovisolo View Post
    Hmmm, I'm not at my system to test, but I think you can just combine the two:

    IF OUTPUT VFEED = ON THEN OFF
    IF FEEDA 000 THEN OFF
    DEFER 2:00 THEN ON


    I believe this should work.

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    ignore that last message, turns out I was logged out (but still able to see the dashboard....unusual, but getting used to the idiosyncrasies)

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