HydroWHIZ DOL Pump Controller
MATelec Australia’s HydroWHIZ Controller has been designed with ease of use at the core of the system design. Building on the wealth of the pump control features in the Advanced controller, the HydroWHIZ brings these features into a new age with a colour touch screen interface and a streamlined setup process. In a world where information is power the HydroWHIZ has extensive time and date stamped alarms, logged data, trend graphs and diagnostic pages to provide the user with all the information required for optimisation and preventative maintenance.
Featuring the flexibility of level, pressure and temperature system modes with a wide range of functions and protections, the HydroWHIZ controller is ideal for a vast range of applications including water transfer, stormwater and sewage pump out, pressure boosting, hot water circulation and chiller supply, to name a few.
Function Features
- Multi-pump Control - Control of up to 6 pumps in any number of duty, duty assist, and standby pump configurations.
- Pump Limiting - For limiting max flow or power requirements.
- Duty Sharing and Alternation - Adjustable duty change period and bumpless transfer.
- Pump Staging and Destaging - Additional pumps are staged into operation to maintain setpoint and destaged when no longer required.
- Staggered Pump Start and Stop - Prevents excessive current draw and reduces water surge or hammer.
- Manual Control - Manual modes for system and pumps with a 10-minute timeout to revert back to auto mode.
- System Types - Level, pressure, or temperature control.
- Control Directions - For emptying or filling a tank
- Level Control Mode - Controlled by a 4-20mA hydrostatic level transducer and/or low, duty stop, duty start, standby starts, and high-level float switches, submerged in a tank or pit.
- Tank Top Up Valve Control - Tops up the tank with mains water when normal inflow of rain or treated water into the tank does not keep up with demand (specific to level mode).
- Maintain Minimum Level - Ensures minimum tank level is maintained.
Enclosure
- IP56 rated, powder-coated mild steel enclosure with inner door and removable gland plate.
Protection
- Pad-lockable mains power isolator switch.
- Circuit breaker protected low voltage control and input circuitry.
- Individual pump isolation.
- Contactor and thermal overload protection of pump motors.
- Din rail-mounted terminal connections.
Control & Interface
- HydroWHIZ colour touch screen HMI (See interface features).
- HydroWHIZ PCB control module.
- Visual (strobe) and mutable audible (buzzer) alarms.
Inputs
- Single phase (230Vac) or three phase (400Vac) power supply.
- Analogue 4-20mA input for level, pressure, or temperature transducer.
- Up to 8x digital 24Vdc inputs for low, stop, start, standby start, and high float switches, pressure switches, or thermostats, system enable/disable input, and a low flow switch.
- Thermal switch inputs per pump (three-phase only).
Outputs
- 1-6 pump outputs.
- BMS volt-free output for common fault.
- Analogue 0-10V output (mirrors analogue input).
- Output for solenoid valve available on request.
- Modbus RTU Serial RS485 connections for SCADA.
Fault Protection
- Protection Modes - Apply to most protections and include alarm (alarm only), lockout (alarm and pump shutdown), and inhibit (pump shutdown only, no alarm).
- High and Low Level, Pressure or Temperature Protection - Alarm and/or shutdown on high and low level, pressure or temperature depending on the system type, low-pressure protection features automatic restart attempts.
- Auxiliary Tank Level Protection - Pump shut-down on supply tank low or destination tank full.
- Pump Anti-seize Protection - Runs pumps periodically during low use to prevent seizing.
- Maximum Run Protection - Activates after pumps run at max speed for 30 mins, protecting the system in the event of a burst pipe, with automatic restart attempts.
- Pump Cycle Protection - Activates if the system goes to sleep but wakes up within 5 seconds, 10 times in a row, due to a faulty non-return valve or similar fault preventing the system from maintaining pressure.
- No Flow Protection - Activates if a pump is running but there is no flow for 30 seconds (if using a flow switch instead of a low-level float), with automatic restart attempts.
- Feedback Signal Fault Protection - Shuts down all pumps in the event of a transducer failing.
- Pump Overload Protection - Shuts down pump/s on overload, with automatic duty alternation.
- Pump Thermal Switch Protection - For three-phase pumps.
Interface Features
- Main screen with system status, auto/off/manual modes.
- Pump screens with status, logged data, and auto/off/manual control.
- Alarms screens with mute/reset, date & time stamped historical faults.
- Logged data with system event & fault counts, pump starts, run hours.
- Analogue feedback value trend graph.
- Streamlined, user-friendly system setup process.
- System diagnostics for easy fault finding, factory reset.
Code | No of Pumps | Phase/Voltage | Overloads |
FPC-63141 | Single | 1 Phase / 230 Vac | -AA to -E |
FPC-63143 | Single | 3 Phase / 400 Vac | -AA to -E |
FPC-63241 | Dual | 1 Phase / 230 Vac | -AA to -E |
FPC-63243 | Dual | 3 Phase / 400 Vac | -AA to -E |
FPC-63341 | Triplex | 1 Phase / 230 Vac | -AA to -E |
FPC-63343 | Triplex | 3 Phase / 400 Vac | -AA to -E |
FPC-63441 | Quad | 1 Phase / 230 Vac | -AA to -E |
FPC-63443 | Quad | 3 Phase / 400 Vac | -AA to -E |
Additional panels for up to 6 pumps available
Additional Options
- /BMS - With BMS volt free outputs for power on, high level, individual pump run, individual pump fault and common fault
- /SMS - With ME-Link Module for SMS alarm/status messaging
- /CS - With pump current sensing for high or low pump current protection
- /RMC - With rain/mains changeover control module and 12Vdc pulse latching solenoid valve
- /GEN - With generator input socket and manual changeover switch
- /ATS - With automatic generator changeover
- Output for normally closed tank top up valve
- Individual pump RCD protection
- 316 stainless steel enclosure
- Free standing enclosure with plinth
- Separate compartments for power authority meters
- Battery backup high level alarm
- Conductivity relays and probe inputs
- Modbus TCP gateway with ethernet port