STEP Up

Introducing Wadsworth's newest staged control. This 6-stage control has an innovative new design that is very user friendly. It has more features than our traditional line of staged controls (STEP 50a and STEP 500) yet it is even more affordable.

What's new?

STEP Up to Better Control This control has 3 setpoint periods, DIF, Day and Night. These can be set based on solar activity so your day period starts at sunrise or you can set the periods to start at a specific clock time such as 8am.

STEP Up to Easy Operation: It is as simple as turning a knob and pressing the select/save button. There is a Help button if you ever want more information but people are calling this the easiest to use control on the market.

STEP Up to Timed Override This is Wadsworth's first control to offer timed override. Simply push the button next to a stage and you're given the opportunity to set a specific time for that stage to be forced on or forced off.

We added this feature because growers told us they often forgot to return the manual override switches to the automatic position. One grower who closely monitors his energy consumption reported a 40% spike in energy consumption one night because he had manually uncovered his curtain and forgot to return it to the automatic mode.

Colorado State University helped us design the control. They suggest using the timed override switches to lock-out cooling equipment during fumigation periods. To make room for the STEP Up control's push button override switches, the dual override switches are now located on the contractor panel rather than on the main control panel.

STEP Up TO AN ENHANCED DISPLAY: A large LCD screen and oversized font displays current temperature, time, date, sunrise, sunset, set point, grow week, and the trigger temperature for each stage.