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Questions regarding Water Level ATO in the Wizard:

• 1. Clarification that the Timeout (sec) option shuts down the pump after running that many seconds.
  2. Assuming #1 is correct, how long does that timeout last by default?

I'm asking because I'm using a dosing pump, pulling water from my ATO reservoir through my kalk stirrer, and into the sump. I've added an if/then failsafe to shut-off the pump over pH 8.4, but as a secondary failsafe and to help preserve the pump, I was going to allow the pump to run for only 10-15 minutes, let it timeout, and then restart after several minutes. Obviously I would try to set this such that my runtime would typically handle, but if evaporation was excessive, the pump would finish topping-off after the timeout.

The ATO timeout is permanent until you clear it through the joystick or using any app.

rimai wrote:The ATO timeout is permanent until you clear it through the joystick or using any app.

Ok so my idea won't work... at least not the way I envisioned. I guess I can either try to program it as a dosing pump or just let it run with a long enough timeout to where if triggered, there has to be a problem. It shouldn't be an issue as the Spectrapure dosing pump I'm using is really designed for this application (at least it is marketed that way).

You can always code it to reset the ATO timeout after a certain period of time