I have a customer with an EasyTouch 4. They have an attached spa and gas heater. There is a Pool High circuit that runs on a schedule, but it's not assigned to any of the aux buttons. Right now, the 4 aux buttons are programmed to Pool Low, Pool Light, Spa Light and Air Blower. It seems to me I've seen Pool High set to the heater button when there is no heater installed. Is there a way to set Pool High to the solar button or something else where I can kick it on from the panel?
How to use Pool High manually from EasyTouch 4
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Dave,
"Pool High" is just a Circuit Name.. It could be "Jim"... It is just a name, that by itself, does nothing..
What does it do on a schedule?? I suspect it just changes the pump speed.
I don't see how you could assign it to the heater button...
If it just changes the pump speed, then most likely it is a Feature Circuit.. If that is the case, it can be turned on or off by using the little 3" LCD
Menu, scroll to find Feature Circuit with a name of "Pool High" and turn it on or off..
Edit... What is it you are actually trying to do??
Thanks,
Jim R.
"Pool High" is just a Circuit Name.. It could be "Jim"... It is just a name, that by itself, does nothing..
What does it do on a schedule?? I suspect it just changes the pump speed.
I don't see how you could assign it to the heater button...
If it just changes the pump speed, then most likely it is a Feature Circuit.. If that is the case, it can be turned on or off by using the little 3" LCD
Menu, scroll to find Feature Circuit with a name of "Pool High" and turn it on or off..
Edit... What is it you are actually trying to do??
Thanks,
Jim R.
Dave,
"Pool High" is just a Circuit Name.. It could be "Jim"... It is just a name, that by itself, does nothing..
What does it do on a schedule?? I suspect it just changes the pump speed.
I don't see how you could assign it to the heater button...
If it just changes the pump speed, then most likely it is a Feature Circuit.. If that is the case, it can be turned on or off by using the little 3" LCD
Menu, scroll to find Feature Circuit with a name of "Pool High" and turn it on or off..
Edit... What is it you are actually trying to do??
Thanks,
Jim R.
Edit: Well, nevermind. I just read through the manual and it says that the Solar button can only be used in Service mode. But it also says the same thing about the Heater button, and also that it does not activate the pump(!), so now I'm curious about what I thought was going on with Customer B's panel. We shall see....
Edit 2: The plot thickens! The manual says the Solar button can be used outside of Service Mode to control the AUX EXTRA circuit. It looks like I can assign Pool High to AUX EXTRA, set it as an egg timer schedule and activate it with the Solar button. I will post back my results.
Thanks, Jim. I knew that about the circuit name, and Pool High does in fact just kick the pump speed up for the cleaning cycle.
Scrolling through the menus to toggle a circuit is more complicated than I'm interested in, and I'd just as soon put the panel into timeout and hit Quick Clean on the pump.
I have another customer that I'm certain has the heater button programmed to run a higher pump speed and nothing else (he has no heater), but I'll have to check this when I'm at his pool this coming week. I don't know if Heater and Solar operate differently, but I'll confirm and, if I'm right about Heater, I'll poke around in the settings to see how it was configured.
Customer A has his panel connected to a Screenlogic interface which would be just fine, but something happened with his home internet and now neither of us can connect to Screenlogic from the app.
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Dave,
Whatever works for you, but it is right at the first page and takes less than 10 seconds..
I suspect that what is happening with the heater is that they have a speed assigned to the "Either heater" circuit, on the pump speed page. So, when he pushes the heater button, the system calls for heat which in turn tells the pump to increase to whatever speed is assigned to "Either heater". Not quite the same as assigning a random circuit name to the heater button..
ScreenLogic is old and does not work well with the new mesh home Wi-Fi systems.. Is that what the installed?
Thanks,
Jim R.
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I'm assuming the pool pump is a 2 speed pump - not a variable speed...?
Since it is an Easytouch4:
I think when you say the 4 Aux buttons you mean Filter, Aux1, Aux2, Aux3 buttons...?
If a solar system is NOT present, the Extra Aux should work the same as Aux 1-3 giving you a 4th Aux
You should be able to achieve what you are asking about, however, be aware in a 2 speed pump configuration, The Pool/Filter needs to be turned on first, or in conjunction with High Speed in order to turn on the pump to High.
Have you considered achieving the same result instead by switching the system to Time-Out mode and running High Speed for three hours?
Since it is an Easytouch4:
I think when you say the 4 Aux buttons you mean Filter, Aux1, Aux2, Aux3 buttons...?
If a solar system is NOT present, the Extra Aux should work the same as Aux 1-3 giving you a 4th Aux
You should be able to achieve what you are asking about, however, be aware in a 2 speed pump configuration, The Pool/Filter needs to be turned on first, or in conjunction with High Speed in order to turn on the pump to High.
Have you considered achieving the same result instead by switching the system to Time-Out mode and running High Speed for three hours?