OFF+X Curiosity Is Resolved
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 2:54 pm
I noted in the GUI User's Manual that whenever I turned my machine ON manually after the daily auto-shut off, where I was using one cycle of On = 7AM, Off 8:30PM, I got "OFF+1" as displayed in the image below. I was sure that the number after Off had something to do with the auto on/off cycles but I wasn't sure what. Note that when the display just shows "Off" this is the same as "Off+0".
I have been wanting to run some experiments to see if I could figure this out and finally did over the last three days. At first I was confused and then I had an "aha" moment. Here's what I did and what was displayed in each case.
1) Deleted all auto On/Off cycles.
2) Programmed one On/Off cycle on Wednesday. When I manually turned the machine ON after the auto-off cycle I got my familiar "Off+1" display.
3) Programmed two On/Off cycles on Thursday. When I manually turned the machine On between the first auto-off and the 2nd auto-on cycle I just got "Off". Turning the machine on after the 2nd auto-off cycle displayed Off+1.
4) Programmed three On/Off cycles on Friday. When I manually turned the machine On between the first auto-off and the 2nd auto-on cycle I just got "Off". Ditto between the 2nd auto-off and the 3rd auto-on. HOWEVER, turning the machine on after the 3rd auto-off cycle displayed Off+5!
Guess what? After this final auto-off the next machine Auto-On cycle is next Wednesday. That's 5 days. So the number after Off is the number of days before the next Auto-On cycle. If there is still an additional auto-on cycle in the current day only "Off" is displayed; i.e. 0 days until the next cycle.
If I am correct when I manually turn on the Dream tomorrow morning it should read Off+4, then Off+3 on Sunday, etc. I'll let you know if this is what I see.
I have been wanting to run some experiments to see if I could figure this out and finally did over the last three days. At first I was confused and then I had an "aha" moment. Here's what I did and what was displayed in each case.
1) Deleted all auto On/Off cycles.
2) Programmed one On/Off cycle on Wednesday. When I manually turned the machine ON after the auto-off cycle I got my familiar "Off+1" display.
3) Programmed two On/Off cycles on Thursday. When I manually turned the machine On between the first auto-off and the 2nd auto-on cycle I just got "Off". Turning the machine on after the 2nd auto-off cycle displayed Off+1.
4) Programmed three On/Off cycles on Friday. When I manually turned the machine On between the first auto-off and the 2nd auto-on cycle I just got "Off". Ditto between the 2nd auto-off and the 3rd auto-on. HOWEVER, turning the machine on after the 3rd auto-off cycle displayed Off+5!
Guess what? After this final auto-off the next machine Auto-On cycle is next Wednesday. That's 5 days. So the number after Off is the number of days before the next Auto-On cycle. If there is still an additional auto-on cycle in the current day only "Off" is displayed; i.e. 0 days until the next cycle.
If I am correct when I manually turn on the Dream tomorrow morning it should read Off+4, then Off+3 on Sunday, etc. I'll let you know if this is what I see.