T5 ballast causing ato troubles

[butcherman]

When my t5's turn on the atu pump goes crazy. I belive uts caused through induction voltage as the t5 wires run close to the float switch wires. Any thoughts?

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[rimai]

Have you tried moving the float wires away from the t5 wires?

[butcherman]

I will have to do some rewiring.

But the issue goes away when the t5's are unplugged

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[mls228]

I think I may be having the same issue but I'm using LEDs on PWM. I notice that my log shows that the ATO stops acting up once the lights dim down to 1% for the night. See my ATO relay log below, note that the actual water level was between the two floats this entire time.

[rimai]

The Portal only register events every 5 minutes.
If the event is quick, it won't register.
What I think you are seeing is just more evaporation during the day.

[mls228]

I disagree. This happens anytime the high limit switch isn't active. I have about 2.5 days of evaporation between the switched. I think I'm getting this noise issue much more frequently than every 5 minutes but it just catches a few in the log. I'll try cleaning up the wiring to see what happens.

[mls228]

Update: I'm in the process of switching my four led bars over to pwm control. The ATO issue is gone now that I disconnected one if my Chinese led drivers that was nearby the ato wiring.