Not that you all cannot already read code.. I'll explain what I am trying to accomplish.
I have been challenged with controlling a certain salinity in a small "fish tank".
I have established a UCL and an LCL (Upper Control Limit & Lower Control Limit) as well as a Setpoint (basically exactly what salinity I want my fish tank to be at)
I want my system to read the salinity (My salinity/conductivity sensor is connected to pin3) and then place it inside of an if statement based on its readings.
Let's assume that it read above the UCL
Arduino recognizes reading and jumps to "if(Analog>UCL)" statement
I WANT it to turn on the "top left" (pin12) LED, wait for me to press a button (connected to pin0), and then dump in the correct amount of fresh water based on its calculaiton of error.
Once it dumps this water in, it waits a certain amount of time and turns on an LED that indicates it is in this "deadtime".
Now that it has done all of this, it SHOULD (I would assume) jump back up to the top of the void loop() and read the salinity again and place it in the necessary if statement and repeat the process..
Unfortunately, it seems that it will not go back up to the top of the void loop() again.. Instead it just repeats the same process over and over again inside of the UCL..
How do I know?? I have the LED (pin12) turn off at the end of the "if(Analog>UCL)" statement. The problem is it just stays on all the time and never goes off! I would think that it should be off for my "delay(500)" in the first part of my loop, right?? And also, when I press the reset button, it will sometimes jump to the "if (Analog<LCL)" statement because of all of the corrections made during the initial process..
I was thinking maybe it was because I have Two "if" statements inside of another "if" statement. I was just going to see if maybe there was somehting I could put like "break" (I've read up on this command but dont really understand what it does) or something similar would kick it out of that statement..