Last week we had a power outage that lasted a few hours. When the power came back on, one of my two EB832s came back up in a Fallback mode for some reason. This EB832 is not the one supplying power to the Apex 2016 so I think that might of had something to do with it. I have some question about how this EB832 should have reconnected to the APEX 2016, but I'll post them in a different thread.
The power was restored at 2:00 AM in the morning, so after checking to make sure the basic life support systems were online (heaters and pumps) I went back to bed, so I didn't discover the Fallback issue until the next morning. My two DOS pumps (four heads) were on the EB832 that was in fall back mode so they had not been running for almost a full day. Not a major disaster, but I always try to take opportunities like these to improve my setup and harden it from failures.
That said - I went through each device on that EB832 and evaluated if it should be set to Fallback or not. When I got to the four dosing heads I discovered you can set them to fallback, but after reading some other forum post, it appears this might not be advisable. Could someone help answer the following questions?
1. If you set the DOS pump to Fallback ON, would the pump ignore the dosing programming/schedule and just run continuously? Asking another way - is the dosing 'program/schedule' pushed to each pump or does it have to be connected to the APEX to run the proper program?
2. If it does retain the program, how does it know what the time is?
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