ATO on water level

[JoelIreland]

I have a Red Sea max S 650 which has a built in gravity fed ATO. I have replaced the pipe with a RA ATO to avoid the risk of the float valve failing.
Can someone please tell me what the best option would be for keeping sump to specific level with the ATO. Thanks.


Joel

[lnevo]

Are you no longer using gravity fed now? If you are using a pump with the water level sensor then you can just use the ReefAngel.WaterLevelATO(Relay, min, max, timeout); function to set the level you want.

[JoelIreland]

Thanks will do that. My next part to question is I will time how long it takes to empty reservoir. Where is the best place to store the current run time so it keeps track?


Joel

[lnevo]

It doesn't keep track. You could write it down, otherwise its a good amount of coding

[JoelIreland]

I thought i could check if the port was active, to log how long for each time and store this information.
I could also time how long the tank takes to empty and minus the active time from total time.
I see others have done this with dosing pumps. Maybe I explained wrong as it seems a few do something similar.

[lnevo]

I'm doing it, its not that simple. Im working with someone else to do similar. Please take a look at this thread and you could follow some of the code there

http://forum.reefangel.com/viewtopic.php?p=27884#p27884

[JoelIreland]

Thanks for that.

[rimai]

You can use customs fields to log that run time.
The idea would be to have a variable incrementing time everytime the port is on.
Then, simply display that number in the screen

[JoelIreland]

So what would be the best way to keep track if say there was a power outage as it would reset.
Im still not 100% sure on how to store info in the portal memory

[rimai]

Yeah, it would loose the count if there was a power outage, but do you have power outages that frequent that it would be a concern?

[JoelIreland]

Probably not and we have it on a UPS