Issues - don't know what else to call it.

[DaReefer]

I woke up this morning and noticed that my ph dropped to 7.8. I dose Kalkwasser on the heavy side overnight. My tank is in my office and when I walked into my office, I noticed that the outlet strip that my dosing pump was connected to was showing that it was disconnected. I checked the dosing log and it showed that the Kalk was dosed as scheduled, but it most certainly was not. I was looking at the dosing pump and it should have been dosing, but it was not. I am a little concerned that the log reflects something that did not happen at all. I did check my kh level and it had dropped about .6 overnight.

After I reconnected the outlet strip, I walked into the kitchen, and I heard my return pump shut down for no reason and I am sure that other things also shut down. The return pump is on a different outlet strip and was only off for a few seconds.

I decided to unplug everything and let it all reboot. It took about two minutes for everything to come back up.

A few seconds later all three outlet strips were red and "disconnected". Then I got a message that the collective was broken. I had to unplug my Control XS for it to reboot.

Anyone else having or have had issues like this?

Thank you!

 

[John Neuzil]

Not i.

 

[Danny]

Collective broken means that there is no wifi communications with one or more controllers. If it is not all controllers the best bet is to reboot your router first then power down the collective and power it back up. I have had my router cause this before and powering it down and powering it back up would fix it. I have had my router refuse to connect to my surface before and had to reboot it for that. So it is possible that the router will work for everything but one or two devices.

 

[ggdowski]

I had one failure that was somewhat worse. I had an outlet somehow get stuck in the "on" position. It was indeed the outlet to my ATO pump. It ended up overflowing my sump. I somehow had turned off other warnings and had the "run if beyond max time" in the on position. It depleted my 100G reservoir that was luckily only half full. It was pretty catastrophic. Luckily, all of the water was in the basement with the sump. It was partially a consequence of not resettings warnings and flags. Live and learn. It is still easy to make mistakes. I don't know why that outlet got stuck on. It isn't doing it now. I'm wondering if it was correlated with me doing the recent upgrade -- I don't know. I will eventually move critical things like this to a wired outlet system that I built that is similar to the XP8.

I have since put more advanced warnings using my level sensor in the tank and I am in the process of adding a rope leak sensor so that I can shut down everything immediately.