BACKGROUND: So last night, I was heating up the Spa for the first time since integrating my new Pentair automation. During the spa "heat-up", my scheduled (cleaning) program "kicked-in" and of course switched the "bodies of water" or "POOL(s) from SPA back to POOL, and of course causing the INTAKE and RETURN valves to rotate back to their normal (Home) positions and turning the heater off. Good thing I caught it within just a couple of minutes of the schedule activating, so I did not lose too much heated water to the pool.
All along, I thought by "checking" the "Manual OP Priority" box in the general settings, that any manual operation would take priority over any "schedules". This was not the case however. Am I confused about how this MoP feature is supposed to work? This is what the User's guide has to say about it (trying to understand "Pentairgalese' is frustrating at best).
"PP 44, IntelliCenter User’s Guide. Manual Operation Priority (General) - Manual OP Priority: ON: This feature allows for a circuit to be manually switched OFF and switched ON within a scheduled program, the circuit will continue to run for a maximum of 12 hours or whatever that circuit Egg Timer is set to (see page 56), after which the scheduled program will resume. This feature will turn off any scheduled program to allow manual pump override. The Default setting is OFF."
Can some TPF members who own Pentair automation systems and who have experienced this issue or similar, jump in and "school" me on what the whole deal with the "MoP" is and what if any "work-arounds" or advice can be shared to prevent the above scenario from occurring?
Thanks in advance.
r.
All along, I thought by "checking" the "Manual OP Priority" box in the general settings, that any manual operation would take priority over any "schedules". This was not the case however. Am I confused about how this MoP feature is supposed to work? This is what the User's guide has to say about it (trying to understand "Pentairgalese' is frustrating at best).
"PP 44, IntelliCenter User’s Guide. Manual Operation Priority (General) - Manual OP Priority: ON: This feature allows for a circuit to be manually switched OFF and switched ON within a scheduled program, the circuit will continue to run for a maximum of 12 hours or whatever that circuit Egg Timer is set to (see page 56), after which the scheduled program will resume. This feature will turn off any scheduled program to allow manual pump override. The Default setting is OFF."
Can some TPF members who own Pentair automation systems and who have experienced this issue or similar, jump in and "school" me on what the whole deal with the "MoP" is and what if any "work-arounds" or advice can be shared to prevent the above scenario from occurring?
Thanks in advance.
r.