As soon as I get this schedule thing figured out, assuming I do, I plan to experiment to find the minimum amount of water flow in/out of the spa that's needed to keep that water healthy. Anyway, here are the screenshots (I even thought maybe 3 schedules couldn't run simultaneously, which is why I have the noon waterfall come on at 12:01pm so it didn't overlap with the pool/cleaner schedule):ĮDIT: I do have a fairly constant battle with my pH due to aeration from the SWG and spillway schedule. It was after I adjusted the actuator that I noticed one waterfall schedule wouldn't run.
I'll be honest, I may have not noticed that one of the schedules wasn't running until the last few days but I'm pretty OCD about this (new pool!) and think I would have been checking. It ran for a few days that way because I didn't have time to mess with it, and like I said, the 3 schedules seemed to work. However, I had created the 3 waterfall periods before I adjusted the actuator. That adjustment - creating 3 "waterfall" schedules instead of the 1 in the evening I originally had - was all I did to the system. After consulting with people here on the forums (and not really liking that approach) I reset the actuator to close off completely and instead run the waterfall more than the 45 minutes a day I was so I'd get fresh, chlorinated water in there throughout the day.
He then adjusted the actuator so the return to the spa never fully closed. In a separate thread I had described how a pool builder friend (he did not build my pool) told me my spa should ALWAYS, whenever the pump is running, be trickling over the spillway to avoid dead water. I agree, it must have been something I did but I went so far as to delete the "waterfall" schedules and recreate them and one (the 5:45pm one) didn't run again last night.
Not sure how to fix this seemingly simple issue. The cleaner period, with a higher pump rpm speed, comes later). There are never more than 2 schedules that overlap (e.g., the filtration timer is running and then the waterfall kicks in for 30 minutes during the time period. Has anybody else experienced this problem? My scheduled run tines include regular filtration, suction side cleaner, and the 3 waterfall periods. I've let the system run for more than 24 hours, thinking it may be a timer/cycle issue, but tonight was 48 hours and the evening waterfall didn't work again. I turned the breakers off and restarted the whole system and voila, the morning and noon waterfalls work, but now the evening won't. Originally my noon waterfall period stopped turning on but the morning and evening would.
However, after messing with the schedules and then trying to set them back to the way they originally were, they don't all work. I could SWEAR when I originally set this up all 3 waterfall schedules worked fine (morning, noon, and early evening). I've set my pool up to run for roughly 9 hours per day but in the middle of that I turn the spillway from the spa on at 3 different times just to move the water in the spa. I have the Pentair EasyTouch controller and use the ScreenLogic iOS app as my main interface.