AgSense Training Comes in Handy!

I know it's been a while since I've worked there, but I had an expirience when I had some major flashbacks to my time in Nebraska working on Pivots. This is a smaller scale project, but you'll see the similarities.

The first and obvious difference was the sheer volume of water. When working on the pivots, if I fired one up, I'd have to wait several minutes for the pressure to reduce otherwise the water running back to the well combined with the pressure of the water being pumped at it could blow apart the pivot. Thankfully in my hot tub, all I have to wait for is the relays to trip, and I'm back to ready to go. Also, the voltage is a major difference. I've got half the voltage on the hot tub (240 volts) compared to the pivots (480 volts). I still was double checking the disconnect was off when putting my screwdriver into the box. First thing I started tracing was my power to the outlet that powers the heater since the tub wasn't heating. The relays weren't hitting properly, and at first I nearly replaced a relay that didn't need to be replaced, but avoided that. Later, I got the box wired up and ready to roll again, and found that I had a bad pressure value. This was also a major deja vu as I constantly checked those at AgSense because the pivot would power down if the pressure wasn't maintained. So, by backing down the pressure valuve, the relay got to the proper position, and the hot tub went from 82 degress to 106 degrees in about 4 hours. I was beaming proud of my skills. Thank you AgSense for that training lesson. Last night was enjoyed sitting in the hot tub after the storm rolled through in the cool evening air with a great 70 degrees. Of course, the tub has been backed off a bit for temp. This morning, it checked in at 98 degrees. We'll try to progress upward from there.

Well, it's time for me to board my flight. I'm having more fun travelling. I'm going to Detroit today, then turning around to head to the west coast for Sacramento. I feel like my trips to Iowa all over again. Anyhow, this evening, I'll be enjoying my flight across the country in the comfort of First Class. Thank you Delta!