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Hi.
I’m trying to figure out how to set the program to achieve this:
I’ve got my first relay connected to the well pump – I’d like to run it at the beggining of my program before every station (to fill my water tank) and than after station 1 and statnion 2 are done (water tank almost empty) run it simultaneously with other stations till the program ends.If the pump is in the same group with stations it works fine at the beggining, but than it doesn’t start again with station 3.
If the pump is in another group it starts simultaneously with first station, not before it.Thanks for your help.
Here is one work around you can use. Below I have renamed your original zones 1, 2, 3 to zones 2, 3, 4, you will see why.
1. Set up that pump station as a ‘master zone’ — in Edit Options -> Configure Master, set the appropriate zone as the master zone. For example, if your pump is installed on zone 8, set zone 8 as master.
2. Move your original zones 1 and 2 wires to ports 2 and 3, making zone 1 available as a ‘dummy’ zone. This is used solely to trigger master zone to run (in the beginning like you wanted), and will NOT activate any valve.
3. Configure zones 2 and 3 to NOT ‘Use Master 1’. Specifically, in their zone attribute dialog, uncheck ‘Use Master 1’.
4. Create a program, set zone 1 to be whatever amount of time you need to fill the tank, then the other three zones with their desired amount of water time. This way, zone 1 (dummy zone) will start first (will not activate any valve because that zone has no wire connected to it) — it will activate the master / pump, and fill the tank. Then zone 2 and 3 will run (these two will NOT activate master because their ‘Use Master 1’ has been unchecked). Finally, zone 4 will run and active the master.
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