Recent content by CharlieWayne

Sweet. We have plumbed 3 valves so far and have wire run for the controls. Just haven't made the connection yet cause I don't like the wiring of the B2 ( 2 wire valve). Last week I was talking to engineering at KLD about if we can change our valves to a 3 wire or even better a 3 wire w/status...

Got a question for those who have installed this.    I want to bury this underground in a valve box but still be able to remove the tank if need be.    My question is what size tank do you guys have and what size of valve box did you use?   Thanks   Charlie

Awesome Reminder.    I forgot about the DNS settings and ability within the XEP.   Great place to run a ddns client updater being we never shut down our alarm system when not home.    Charlie

I am a craftsman by trade and understand what you saying. I've gone through bags of zip ties that had been expired just to have them snap or break, but that was in extreme places with temps in the -30s. How many CAT cables in one bundle does it take to max out a 50 lb zip tie on 3-4' centers or...

What's MMV mean? Just out of couristy do you know why they disallow zip ties? Anything to do with then dry and become brittle? I know the J Hooks you guys are talking about and they just scream $$ to the power of 4. Hahha, well I'm sure their not outrageous I try to use materials that are...

I've already bought the injectors to plumb into lines. We installed motorized valves, water meters, and now have have to run wires for all of it. With ezflow you can install a solenoid/valve to control the fertigation systems. Mike has an option in his software when to fertlize or you can have...

10" zip ties with eyelets for screws for hanging from truss. Use the smallest zip ties to tighten up any sag between truss zip ties. Check monoprice.com for price and materials

We've been using a HTPC for almost a year now. Its a Windows 7 Pro machine (don't use win 8 for HTPC) and uses a Ceton pcie 6 channel runner. We have Cetons echo extenders also and they have been running with little to no problems. If you choose the windows media center route, for sure get to...

Hi Newbie. I've run Homeseer for 2 years. Most Homeseer users run zwave but I use Insteon. The plugin developer Mark offers amazing support for his work as well Homeseer themselves. I have both a Insteon PLM (Serial) & Insteon HUB. I use the PLM with Homeseer and the hub just burns 5 watts of...

I'm pretty sure this is a fresh install right and your talking about send/receive to the xep itself and not the m1. One the screen shot in first shot, something is wrong. Looks like you entered your IP as seen from outside your home (WAN). You need to assign local IP on the same subnet and it...

Thanks Pete. I'll look over this and see if my local electronics supply has some of these materials. I might take me a while but doing a mod like this after the valve has been installed should be too easy. If we use CAT cable to control the open and close of this valve there should be enough...

REPORTING VALVE STATUS/POSITION TO A HOME AUTOMATION CONTROLLER.....     Above we established that Bucko was using a unused contact switch and a zone input on his alarm panel. But with our B2 wiring style we lack this unused contact switch.   If we were to utilize the contact switches that are...

I've gone back and edited my post in #7.    While I might not be expressing my idea here I want to ask if what I have written makes sense to you guys.    If not understood, its no big deal and I can either start over or make more edits.    Please both positive or negative feedback it welcome. 

Looked at the B5 diagram from KDL and they using ground switching to reverse the motor and that won't work for us. Apples to Oranges here cause we only have two wires of the B2 and to change the position we simply reverse the polarity of these two wires.    Safest way is to achieve this would be...

  Yes it does turn multiple times (ie 25:1 or 10:1) or whatever it really its