Duplicated Variable Speed Ports

[ecook280]

I was hooking up my two 6105's today and couldn't for the life of me figure out why the pump on Var2 wouldn't run, I had Var3 and Var4 turned off. I moved the plug to the other VSP port and turned on those ports, Var4 would run but not Var3, then I noticed the LED's, 1, 2 and 4 were working, 3 wasn't. I had each port set up identical with a test profile, 5 sec on 5 sec off just to get everything working. I went back to ports 1/2 and it was working, until I turned off ports 3 and 4 then port 2 quit again, then I found the issue on the web interface, Var2 and Var3 are both showing Base_Var2, so the only way to get port 2 working is to program Var2 and Var3 the same and turn them on, if I turn off Var3, Var 2 shows that its still on on the webpage but is really off, any thoughts on how to fix this, I have restarted the Apex, same issue, base_Var3 is not showing up and Var2 and Var3 are assigned to Base_Var2.... Oh and I just updated firmware to 4.12_2A12 last week, I just got these 6105's and never needed the Var ports before so not sure if this is something new or old, just know about it now since I tried to use them. Also tried re flashing the firmware, no help

 

[aquamanic]

My guess would be that you need to initialize your controller. That will erase all your program information and replace it with defaults so you need to SAVE that first. But, you might run into a problem when you try to reload your saved configuration.

I'd see if Neptune can telnet into your controller and just change that internal address that the Var3 outlet points to. That would be easier than an initialize. If you really need it fixed now then the initialize would be what I would try.

 

[ecook280]

Thanks, I emailed support, they said the same thing, so I tried the initialize and restore, same issue, they said they could get an engineer to remote in on Monday to try and fix it, I cant complain about that, especially since I got a reply within a few hours of emailing them.

 

[RussM]

Did you check to see if the VS port were back to normal after initializing and before restoring the configuration? You might have restored the problem.

 

[ecook280]

Nope, the initialization didn't correct it, it was still wrong before the restore

 

[RussM]

did you reboot after the init?

 

[ecook280]

yep

 

[ecook280]

Well I just did it again to be sure, the init fixed it this time, I swear it didnt the first time, but the restore screwed it up again, I have never messed with these ports before so no idea how it got screwed up, now is there is a way to fix it without recreating 32 ports ...........

 

[ecook280]

talked to Paul, initialized just the outlets and reprogrammed them, time consuming but best way, issue now resolved