Alarm Successfully Off?

[Siberwulf]

I'm getting hit with a pretty interesting flood of alerts from my Apex. Only one of these is a real error and I'm pretty skeptical that it even happened.

Is this normal? I'm not thinking it is...

 

[SuncrestReef]

This most commonly happens if there's a float switch or optical sensor that is toggling rapidly between OPEN and CLOSED, so quickly that the Apex doesn't have time to send out the initial Alarm On notification before it sends the Alarm Off notification. The easiest way to isolate what is causing the alarm is to add a brief delay on the EmailAlm program to force it to remain On long enough to send the initial alarm notification which will contain the description of what caused it:

Min Time 000:30 Then ON

See my tutorial on Apex Alarm Programming for more tips:

Neptune Apex Programming Tutorials, Part 6: Alarms

Neptune Apex Programming Part 6 of our series: Alarms.

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[Siberwulf]

I think this may have helped. I i need to figure out how to get rid of the flutter in the optical switch (detecting the low water level). So maybe I should fix that first. Thanks!