ACTIVE ALARMS
At the bottom of the page is the “Active Alarm” display. If there are any active alarms
they will be noted here, one entry per alarm. Each alarm is a hyperlink into an alarm help
file that will provide additional information on the cause and the steps required to
resolve the alarm. When alarms are cleared, they are removed from the Active Alarm
display. If there are no active alarms the red box goes away and the text “No Active
Alarms” appears.
Using the Remote Control page
The Remote Control page allows you to control your Aqua Rite Pro or Pro Logic pool
controller as if you were standing in front of it. The page will look similar and simulate
the function of the pool controller's local display/keypad or a physical remote control. If
your pool controller is a Pro Logic PS-16, then the Remote Control page will look and
function like a PS-16 remote control. Figure 2 below shows the PS-16 version of the
Remote Control page.
There are four sections to the Remote Control page:
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The left navigation buttons (not present on a physical remote).
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The 2 line text display (white display with blue text).
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The menu navigation buttons (to the right of the two line text display).
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The pool control buttons (below the two line text display).
Figure 2
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The web site also generates a warning email the moment an alarm occurs, and then once
a day until the alarm is cleared. In some cases the alarm warning emails may not be
welcome. One common situation involves the low salt alarm. Some pool owners like to
run their salt-chlorinated pool at a lower salt level than we recommend such that they are
constantly running with a low salt alarm. To avoid getting a low salt alarm email every
day, you can mute the alarm on the Dashboard page. The alarm will still exist on the pool
controller. The alarm will still appear on the Dashboard. But the alarm warning emails will
be muted.
To mute an alarm warning email:
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Go to the Dashboard page and scroll to the bottom where the alarms are visible.
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Each alarm will show it’s current status (ON/OFF). You can change the status of
each alarm individually.
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When an alarm is off, no email warnings will be sent out to you.
Entering/Modifying Pool Survey Information
A pool survey involves a manual test of the pool water chemistry/quality that is inde-
pendent of the sensors attached to the pool controller. The Aqua Connect web site
contains a Pool Survey Form that should be used to keep track of the results of these
manual pool surveys. Any number of pool surveys can be added and maintained.
Note that you must supply the pool water test kit. Many different kits are available at
your pool supply store. Before purchase you should make sure that the kit you buy
measures all three of the required items listed below.
Some items in the pool survey are for your benefit or the benefit of your pool service
firm. There are three items in the pool survey that are reported on the Dashboard and
used in the Water Balance computation. These three items are: Total Alkalinity (some-
times called Alkalinity), Calcium Hardness (sometimes called Hardness) and Stabilizer
(sometimes called Cyanuric Acid). These are the only three items (along with date and
time) that are
required
by the Aqua Connect web site for a pool survey.
The Aqua Connect web site expects you to keep current values of Total Alkalinity,
Calcium Hardness, and Stabilizer on file in pool surveys. These values have an expira-
tion date; after several weeks or a month the value can no longer be assumed to be
accurate, so a new pool survey needs to be performed. When these values cease to be
accurate they will no longer be displayed on the Dashboard; “n/a” will be displayed
instead. The expiration dates are shown in Table 5; to maintain a Water Balance mea-
surement on the Dashboard manual readings must be taken every 2 weeks:
To enter a new pool survey:
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Perform the actual test on your pool water using a commercially available test kit.
These usually involve strips that contain a patch for each water condition that they
test for. Each patch changes color when it comes in contact with your pool water.
You dip the strip in the water, and then compare the final color of each patch to a
chart. From this chart you estimate values. Once you have these values you can
enter them on the web site.
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Measurement Expiration
Total Alkalinity
14 days after the data is entered into the pool survey.
Calcium Hardness
28 days after the data is entered into the pool survey.
Stabilizer (Cyanuric Acid)
14 days after the data is entered into the pool survey.
Table 5
