easytouch triggering pool delay

[aaron_w_o]

I have been having troubles getting my programming on my easytouch correct this year.

What I've just noticed in the last 2-3 days is that i cannot shut my pump on and off from my easytouch anymore.
I keep getting a "pool delay" and i have no clue why. I have to override/clear the delay to turn the pump off. this adds about 5 steps on the easytouch panel that should be a simple toggle button.

is there any basic troubleshooting I can do to understand why this is happening? it's a relatively new problem in the last week or so.
see screenshots of what i see immediately after pushing the "P" button, pump circuit on/off.
(and yes its actually that cold here today, bit unusual)

 

[Jimrahbe]

Aaron,

The pump will not shut off if the heater needs to cool down.

Thanks,

Jim R.

 

[aaron_w_o]

Aaron,

The pump will not shut off if the heater needs to cool down.

Thanks,

Jim R.

while I agree this makes sense, there are 2 issues:
1) the heater had not been running
2) it never used to do this

 

[Rocket J Squirrel]

Something similar happened to me today. I just happened to be at the ET panel at 4:00 when my pump is programmed to shut off. It kept running and DEL showed in the display. There was nothing running it might have needed to wait for. At 4:02 I cancelled the delay and the pump shut off. I'm puzzled.

 

[aaron_w_o]

i can recreate this problem on demand. in fact, if i try to shut my pump off right now, I will get the delay and have to cancel the delay to shut the darn pump off.
I will go test this theory right now. I had certainly triggered this delay about 5 times as I was toggling my pump on/off during backwash/rinse/filter cycles this evening. many additional steps just to get the pump off so I could switch the filter head position.

 

[aaron_w_o]

i can recreate this problem on demand. in fact, if i try to shut my pump off right now, I will get the delay and have to cancel the delay to shut the darn pump off.
I will go test this theory right now. I had certainly triggered this delay about 5 times as I was toggling my pump on/off during backwash/rinse/filter cycles this evening. many additional steps just to get the pump off so I could switch the filter head position.

confirmed... it's been an hour now since i backwashed and just tried to turn the pump off after leaving it running. no luck. DEL appeared. I am supposed to be in the middle of a scheduled pump cycle right now, which is between 7pm and 7am (weeknights). you would think I could interrup this, do what I need to do, and start it back up again. what's the behaviour when you interrupt a program? I assume it doesnt resume on it's own if it was active when you interruped it?

 

[Jimrahbe]

Aaron,

When working on the filter or the pump, the system should be in the Service mode.. You then run the pump from the pump's display..

I really doubt that you have any kind of electrical problem... Just some type of configuration issue, but to be honest, I don't have a clue what it is.

The system only needs to think the heater is on, it does not have to actually be on. But, as I have said before, I don't have a heater so there is a lot of heater problems that I have not seen.

Thanks,

Jim R.