Hi all
Right I have over the last few months been buying various bits and bobs for the AQ5
4 inline temperature sensors
1 power adjust basic
1 tube meter
1 D5 aqua controlled pump
1 MP 40 pressure gauge and AQ5 pro
After a few weeks I removed the tube meter as it was not really working in my rig due to the length of tube it was in and purchased the mp40 pressure gauge and fitted that , I have aqua bus cables 4 pin throughout and 3 pin to the power adjust all daisy chained from the high speed bus
the D5 and MP40 also are connected via usb to the motherboard this including the AQ5
now when I set this all up I did it bit by bit, I connected the pump first via usb and aqua bus updated the firmware then the pressure meter and did the same procedure with the firmware, Everything is connected via bus and usb at this stage did a restart only to find that I could not get the pump to speed control(it had been previously been set up with the tube meter still in operation on the delta temperatures and was still working until the restart) so I started to fault find by taking off the usb from the MP 40 only to discover that I could not get the pressure reading off the overview page...I however could find the internal temperature sensor readout from the MP 40 in the sensor page of the AQ5 and the pump started to respond to the curve controllers demands, so thinking it was a faulty usb cable I got a new one and reconnected it to the setup.... on restart I had no control over the pump again but had all the readouts from the on-board pressure sensor again..... so this time I took off the usb from the pump .....this time the readout to the overview page was greyed out and non functional as to the power the pump was using and the speed it was going at, but it was being speed controlled
When I first purchased this I understood that the aqua bus cabling would power the sensors for readout by the AQ5 only to discover that I would need usb attachments to get the readouts on the overview pages of the AQ5.......
I have now found out the cause of the problem ..and that is the D5 pump needs to be set in its setting tab to usb priority and that the aqua bus channel needs to be set to 12 and that the MP40 pressure gauge needs in its own settings tab needs to be set aqua bus priority and channel 13
It seems that the system cannot split the signals up from the D5 andMP40 via usb ....????
and so combines both the MPS devices into one unusable MPS device....but I need both to be connected via usb to get readings off the software..is this working as intended? what will happen if I want to connect another MPS device as I have no further priority channels to use will I get that it will again try to join the 2 MPS devices if I use the usb channels or am I doing it wrong ,do I need to set both devices as aqua bus priority?
if I set both priority channels to aqua bus channels in my current setup I lose input values from the sensors for one or the other device and lose the control feature when using usb as priority
setting up the overview page is a pain as its set up with the use of the usb connections once you remove the usb cables you don't get readings....however you will find that the AQ5 is connected to the devices via temperature tabs and flow meter tabs with the aqua bus connected but you will not find the pressure reading anywhere in the AQ5 tab, nor will it be available to link to the page unless its connected to the usb....is this correct ??.. the same will happen for the pump power and speed inputs
am I correct in thinking that if you want readings and control functions you need to be connected via usb and aqua bus... I know the 4 pin aqua bus is supposed to power the sensors, but whats the use if I cant get the readings off the sensors??
so some little help in where im going wrong ..or im not going wrong and its working as intended(or not)
cheers