Power Cut Delay

[KStatefan]

I am trying to get my power outage delay to work. I have my power cut monitoring set up and it is working

When the power cut goes off my switches come back on immediately even though I have a blackout delay set up. Does the blackout delay only get used when the powerbar looses power?

 

[ingchr1]

I think so.

The sockets and power cut behavior are set as one of your maintenance modes.

 

[KStatefan]

Yes I have maintenance 4 set up has my power cut program and it turns off the switches like it should when I disconnect the lin.mon input. but when I plug that back in everything comes back on at the same time.

 

[ingchr1]

Per your settings the sockets selected should come back on after 2 minutes.

Just tested mine and it worked as it should, the sockets came back on after 5 minutes.

 

[KStatefan]

Per your settings the sockets selected should come back on after 2 minutes.

Just tested mine and it worked as it should, the sockets came back on after 5 minutes.

I do not want all of them to come back on after 2 minutes. I want them to have different blackout delays. That is what I though the blackout delay does. I tried last night setting all switch channels with a different blackout delay. When I disconnected the lin.mon all went off when i plugged it back in all of the came back on at 2 minutes. I must be missing a setting to make the blackout delay become active.

 

[ingchr1]

What happens if you unplug and plug back in the Powerbar? What happens if you do that with power cut activated and not activated in the power cut settings?

 

[Member No 1]

@KStatefan - PM Sent

 

[KStatefan]

I think i will have to do this with programming.

"Blackout delay– for the time set here (0 to 60 minutes) the switching output remains switched off in any case after the switch-on of the ProfiLux 4. This setting is useful if this switching output switches a device which must first cool down before it is switched on again, e.g. if the re-switching of a MH-lamp shall be delayed after a power failure."

The way I read this is the blackout delay only becomes active after a power off of the P4.

 

[Member No 1]

Bingo

 

[Member No 1]

I think i will have to do this with programming.

"Blackout delay– for the time set here (0 to 60 minutes) the switching output remains switched off in any case after the switch-on of the ProfiLux 4. This setting is useful if this switching output switches a device which must first cool down before it is switched on again, e.g. if the re-switching of a MH-lamp shall be delayed after a power failure."

The way I read this is the blackout delay only becomes active after a power off of the P4.

Or if the line-mon see a power interruption. This works even if the P4 is connected to an back-up.

 

[KStatefan]

Can not get the lin.mon to activate the blackout delay. The first video show all outlets set to always on and I disconnect the lin.mon power. All shut off as programed when I reapply power the delay blackout delay does not work.

The second video I power down the P4 the outlets behave as expected 1min blackout delay, 2 min delay,....,6 min delay

 

[ingchr1]

It appears that the blackout delay is only affected by a loss of power to the P4 and not the lin-mon.

@Vinny@GHLUSA can you confirm?

 

[KStatefan]

It appears that the blackout delay is only affected by a loss of power to the P4 and not the lin-mon.

@Vinny@GHLUSA can you confirm?

That was what I was thinking after doing my test this morning. I will just add another level to my programing logic control

 

[Lasse]

It is logical for me because there is no power break to the power bar and the P4 have contact with the powerbar (through reserve power) during the whole time.

Are you going to have all these outlets on "always on"

In that case - test this on the outlets that should be switched of during power cut of

create a PL (8 in my case) Note the flipflop function

create a new PL (9) in my case. I have 15 seconds just for test

Knit the last PL to each switch channel you want to do this . (PL9 and Switch channel 1 in my case)

I have no in line mod input but I get this to work with activate and deactivate maintenance 4 Maybe you need to do a manual activation of maintenance 4 first in order to activate the flipflop function and I have no idea whats happen if you get a total power loss - if you need to manual activate the flipflop function again. If you use it - test in many different situations before you goes sharp

If you test this on power linemon you maybe need to have this activated

If it works - do not ask why - I have no clue

Sincerely Lasse

 

[Lasse]

If you use GCC you can do an online test virtually

maintenance active

Maintenance inactive

After 15 seconds

After 30 seconds

Sincerely Lasse

 

[KStatefan]

Thanks Lasse I will look into that.

Is there a way to see the current state of each Gate?

 

[Lasse]

Is there a way to see the current state of each Gate?

What do you mean with each gate - switch channels or PL gates?

It you work with GCC - you can place windows between each other

In this case - I left click om the tab in the circle - sweep it to the right side and let it go - two windows

Sincerely Lasse

 

[KStatefan]

The program logic gates. It would be nice when programming is not working like I think it should be to be able to see the status of each gate.

 

[Lasse]

Not as I know - @Vinny@GHLUSA - please help - PL language is described here https://www.aquariumcomputer.com/downloads/programmable-logic-instructions/

Sincerely Lasse

 

[KStatefan]

Thanks for the help. I got back to this and have it working now. I am sure there are different ways to do this but this is what I came up with. I did find a work around for the status of each gate I assigned switch channels I was not using to them and could see their status.