Apex help with programing ato for kalk

[chuckbuc]

Hi everyone .I would like to start adding kalk to my auto top off .right now I have my ato working threw my breakout box .it works great but I woukd like to be topping off only at night when I start using kalk .does anyone have a program I can use .or something I can add to mine to make it so I only top off at night

[Mark Bianco]

Without having any knowledge of what you have ie float switches and where they are located, its would be almost impossible to help with a program. However if you already have a working program all you need to do is add this code to your existing program at the bottom, adjust the times as you want.

If Time 08:00 to 20:00 Then OFF

This code will keep it off from 8 am to 8 pm

Hope that helps

Mark

[chuckbuc]

I have just tryied this program yesterday around 9pm and it didnt work right my ato went on..i need it only at night say from 11 to 6 am ..i dont wanna top off during the day .during the day around 9am my pump turns on to mux my kalk in yhe ato container ..

[fairladyZ]

How big is your container? If it's not huge then I wouldn't stir it up. Plus if you only top off at night your initial top off for the day of evaporation will probably sky rocket your ph to possibly dangerous levels. I would mix up a container and let it sit a couple hours then hook it up and let it top off all day as necessary.

You said you had a breakout box so I assume you have floats. Keep small top offs all day and set failsafes for high ph or if the pump runs longer than say 15 minutes it shuts off automatically to keep from any thing bad happening with the kalk

[chuckbuc]

I have a 30 gallon resevroir for my top off ..my total water volune is 450 gallons ....actually that would help me cause i can never get my ph above 8.05

[chuckbuc]

And yes im using the floats with the breakout box ..i have my auto top off working good i just need to know how to set the time for it ..i wrote what mark said and it still goes on whenever the float tells it to