| 摘要 |
<p>A method of controlling recharging of a water conditioning apparatus comprises the steps of: detecting water usage by the apparatus; storing for each time slot of a cyclically repeating series of such time slots information about the usage in that time slot; and determining, at least in part, a time for recharging the apparatus in dependence upon the stored information. The information which is stored for each time slot (for example of 3 hours duration) of the cyclically repeating serie of such time slots (for example over a period of one week) is a value dependent upon an average of the measured amounts of usage in that time slot and in at least one corresponding such time slot in a previous cycle. The storing of an amount of usage for each time slot opens up many possibilities for improving the method. Also, the use of average values for corresponding time slots makes the method less susceptible to vagaries in the water usage in one particular week.</p> |
