Hi there,
We're looking at adding a heat pump to our system. I was under the impression that the IntelliCenter could call for both heating and cooling using RS-485, however the new UltraTemp HXi models don't support serial, only a dry contract input for on/off.
I've been talking to Pentair support, but their suggestion so far has been to manage cooling manually through the heat pump mobile app. I would prefer to have this automated, and "just work" as required keeping the pool at the right temperature without having to check and manually activating cooling mode through the app when required.
I note the board for the HXi model also has RS-485 terminals and seem to connect to the WiFi and "controller" terminals on the schematic, but they're not documented and support are saying they're not supported. Perhaps included for future updates?
Hoping someone here knows how to get around this - at this stage it looks like RS-485 is being phased out on heat pump in favour of simple on/off connected to the GAS dry contact, but that seems like a pretty significant step backwards in functionality from the previous UltraTemp heat pumps that worked over RS-485.
Thanks
We're looking at adding a heat pump to our system. I was under the impression that the IntelliCenter could call for both heating and cooling using RS-485, however the new UltraTemp HXi models don't support serial, only a dry contract input for on/off.
I've been talking to Pentair support, but their suggestion so far has been to manage cooling manually through the heat pump mobile app. I would prefer to have this automated, and "just work" as required keeping the pool at the right temperature without having to check and manually activating cooling mode through the app when required.
I note the board for the HXi model also has RS-485 terminals and seem to connect to the WiFi and "controller" terminals on the schematic, but they're not documented and support are saying they're not supported. Perhaps included for future updates?
Hoping someone here knows how to get around this - at this stage it looks like RS-485 is being phased out on heat pump in favour of simple on/off connected to the GAS dry contact, but that seems like a pretty significant step backwards in functionality from the previous UltraTemp heat pumps that worked over RS-485.
Thanks
