Flow Sensor Behavior

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Michael Anderson

• July 16, 2024 15:19
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One of my zones failed to run due to a bad valve/solenoid. The Yardian did not skip that zone after detecting 0 GPM and instead kept the wire hot for the entire run time.

Perhaps the software should keep track of the Flow Sensor data across all zones to determine if a valve has failed. If it gets a continuous 0 GPM reading for 10 minutes or so then it could disable and alert for that zone. It could even determine if the Flow sensor is bad if all zones report 0 GPM

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  Aeon Matrix

  • July 18, 2024 02:35

  Hi Michael,

  Thanks for your suggestions.

  Currently, the flow sensor will only notify users about abnormalities and will not interfere with watering activities because it could be complicated; some people might want to stop watering while others might not. The flow sensor might be faulty, but we cannot determine this for certain. We need to consider this new feature further.

  Best Regards,
  Joseph

   

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  Michael Anderson

  • July 31, 2024 12:38
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  “ it could be complicated; some people might want to stop watering while others might not. The flow sensor might be faulty, but we cannot determine this for certain”

  Not complicated. Add a flow sensor dropdown with 4 options:

  • Ignore 

  • Disable Zone if zero 

  • Disable Zone if very high 

  • Skip zone if both

  The software could watch the faulty zone for 5 minutes or so and then alert and disable that zone for future watering IF the next zone does NOT have anomalies.

  No matter what happens with next zones, it should alert the user to check their valves and/or flow sensor and to reset those zones when fixed.

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  Aeon Matrix

  • August 04, 2024 18:10

  Hi Michael,

  Thank you for the suggestion.
  I will forward it to your team.

  Best Regards,
  Joseph

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