Catgenie 120 flood issues.

[Scott Simonson]

I purchased a 120 in December of 2014 solely to flash it with the cat genius firmware. I flashed it successfully and it worked perfectly for awhile. Then one day I came into our laundry room and it was overflowing with water and I had to turn it off. I cleaned up the mess and covered it up and there it sat until earlier this week when I decided to flash it with the most recent hex file. This is what it does. It scoops like it's supposed to. It then fills with water to the "line" and spins and empties twice like its supposed to. Then it fills a third time (not even sure if it is supposed to wash three times) and continues to fill until you remove power. The odd thing is when you power it back up again it drains and finishes properly. I have read that flooding is not possible because of the way the water circuit is designed. I also changed out the water "wand" with a spare one that came with it. I have seen others with flooding issues but none seem as specific as mine. I would assume it is seeing the water level just fine since it stops filling the first two times. Right now I have it set up with a leak sensor on the floor that will tell a Wemo outlet to turn off if it detects water. It has tripped once already because at some point it flooded again.Not sure if anyone can help.

    

-Scott

[Robert Deliën]

My guess would be there's something wrong with your water sensor; all three water cycles are similar. The filling is ended when the sensor trips.

Did you test it, using GenieDiag?

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On 21 Jan 2017, at 16:50, Scott Simonson <sixfo...@gmail.com> wrote:

I purchased a 120 in December of 2014 solely to flash it with the cat genius firmware. I flashed it successfully and it worked perfectly for awhile. Then one day I came into our laundry room and it was overflowing with water and I had to turn it off. I cleaned up the mess and covered it up and there it sat until earlier this week when I decided to flash it with the most recent hex file. This is what it does. It scoops like it's supposed to. It then fills with water to the "line" and spins and empties twice like its supposed to. Then it fills a third time (not even sure if it is supposed to wash three times) and continues to fill until you remove power. The odd thing is when you power it back up again it drains and finishes properly. I have read that flooding is not possible because of the way the water circuit is designed. I also changed out the water "wand" with a spare one that came with it. I have seen others with flooding issues but none seem as specific as mine. I would assume it is seeing the water level just fine since it stops filling the first two times. Right now I have it set up with a leak sensor on the floor that will tell a Wemo outlet to turn off if it detects water. It has tripped once already because at some point it flooded again.Not sure if anyone can help.

    

-Scott

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[Kyle Kimsey]

I have this same problem periodically, it was almost always some form of debris on the light tube for the water level sensor.

Because it happened frequently, I did the following:

- Shut the water valve a tad. My water pressure was so high that the bowl would overflow before the max-timer for the fill kicked in. By reducing the pressure, that timer has always clicked it off before hand.

^ Now, if my water sensor is dirty I don't get an overflow, I just get the spinning bowl.

- Added a floor water sensor that kills power to the CatGenie if it gets wet. Essentially, I took a cheap $8 "wireless remote" power switch (3packs at Costco) and soldered the off switch (mines 3.3v logic) to two screws sticking through a piece of plastic. If water connects those probes, it kills the box, and the valve closes. Only way I can get a flood now is if the valve fails open.