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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2014
Hayward Industries, Inc., Elizabeth, NJ (US);
David Pruchniewski, Casselberry, FL (US);
Kevin Potucek, Far Hills, NJ (US);
Gregory Fournier, West Kingston, RI (US);
James Murdock, Wakefield, RI (US);
David Blaine, Uxbridge, MA (US);
Carl L. Brunetti, Manville, RI (US);
Douglas Sawyer, Jr., Seekonk, MA (US);
Robert Heon, Warwick, RI (US);
John Stevens, North Kingstown, RI (US);
James Carter, Warwick, RI (US);
Craig Horrocks, North Kingstown, RI (US);
Kenneth White, Jr., East Dennis, MA (US);
Hayward Industries, Inc., Elizabeth, NJ (US);
Abstract
A pool or spa control system includes, a main control panel housing a motherboard, relay bank, and local terminal. The motherboard includes a processor in two-way communication with a relay bank socket via an internal bus. The relay bank is connectable to the relay bank socket and includes a processor, memory, plurality of relays, connector, and an internal bus establishing two-way communication between the relay bank processor and the motherboard processor when the relay bank is connected to the relay bank socket. The local terminal includes a control processor, user interface, and memory, and is in two-way communication with the motherboard processor for allowing user control of the system. The control processor automatically discovers and assigns the relay bank a network address upon connection of the relay bank to the motherboard relay bank socket, and the relay bank returns relay bank parameter information, which the local terminal stores in memory.