Intellicenter heater automation
- Thread starter shagymoe
- Start date
- Jul 21, 2013
- 65,062
- Pool Size
- 35000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
Did you create a feature circuit called “Heater Byass”?
Valve B should be assigned to “Heater” circuit.
Valve B should be assigned to “Heater” circuit.
- Jul 21, 2013
- 65,062
- Pool Size
- 35000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
Now the heater bypass actuator will automatically open and close when the heater turns on and off with no additional programming required.
Intake, Return, and Heater Bypass actuators will all automatically operate with changes in POOL, SPA, and HEAT mode.
I don't know what you want to do with your skimmer/MD actuator or why you need it.
Moe,
I 'assume' that you need to be sucking from the main drain when your In-Floor-Cleaning-System is running...
Is that true or is it something else???
Thanks,
Jim R.
I had to rotate the heater bypass valve 90 degrees because the home position can only be 0 or 24 but yes, it does open and close automatically now when I turn heat on and off. THANK YOU!
I need the skimmer/MD actuator to balance between the two. The skimmer cannot handle 100% and at 50%, which is what would happen if there were no valve, it does not suck hard enough to skim very well. So, the actuator allows me to set it more like 75% skimmer 25% MD for good skimming. (I said 50/50 in the spreadsheet for simplicity.) Does that make sense?
The in-floor-cleaning-system is the only returns in the pool, so if it's in pool mode, it's always "cleaning". However, they don't work well at low speeds, so I ramp up the pump for 2 hours to "clean" the pool. The intake can be full MD or partial MD / partial skimmer but not full skimmer because it can't handle 100%.Moe,
I 'assume' that you need to be sucking from the main drain when your In-Floor-Cleaning-System is running...
Is that true or is it something else???
- Jul 21, 2013
- 65,062
- Pool Size
- 35000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
Create a Skimmer feature circuit you assign Valve A to and set the VS pump speed that works best. Run the Skimmer circuit while POOL mode is active.
Moe,
I guess my question was more about how your IFCS works... If the main drain is off, will IFCS actually clean anything? When the IFCS is working I "assume" all the dirt gets sucked up byt your Main Drain?? Is that true, or is it picked up some other way??
Just curious.
Thanks,
Jim R.
I guess my question was more about how your IFCS works... If the main drain is off, will IFCS actually clean anything? When the IFCS is working I "assume" all the dirt gets sucked up byt your Main Drain?? Is that true, or is it picked up some other way??
Just curious.
Thanks,
Jim R.
To wrap up here: The main fix was to change Valve B from "Heater Bypass" to "Heater" so that the valve will change when the heat is on. The other "fix" was in my understanding of how schedules work. I didn't realize that multiple schedules could run at the same time. I thought you had to create a Group Circuit and use that in a single schedule to make multiple things happen at the same time. I guess I need to RTFM better. 
In any case, I'm now able to turn the heat on and off via schedules and my "Group Circuits" are totally useless so I'll delete them.
In any case, I'm now able to turn the heat on and off via schedules and my "Group Circuits" are totally useless so I'll delete them.