Need help with reefkeeper elite

[cedwards04]

I have the module, I'm just talking with the seller and didn't want to tell him he owes me one if it didn't come with it originally. Trying to be fair with him.

 

[jamie1981]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B011QGJ8D...6h&pd_rd_r=80DXB76MBDH5MM667NR3&pd_rd_w=ACF1l


Actually DA did not provide power supplies with the hub but this is all you need to power it.

 

[cedwards04]

Ok. Well for $10 I won't bother with wether or not it should have come with it. I'm not going to sweat the small stuff.

 

[cedwards04]

Finally got a chance to mess around with it some. I checked all bus connections for corrosion and all seem good. I rerouted the connection as follows: rke, pc4,mlc,sl2,sl1,pc4. Set everything up around 2pm yesterday. The tank is in my daughter's bedroom, so I ran an extension cord from a spare outlet on a pc4 to a lamp I placed in the living room to help me keep an eye on it, I also placed a digital clock in the stand and plugged it in so that if it happened to lose connection while I wasn't watching, I would see the clock flashing. All went well until this morning. When I woke up I checked on the tank. Everything was running as normal, but the clock was flashing, indicating that at some point it lost power at least once while we were sleeping.

 

[macfin]

I started putting a little Dielectric Grease
https://www.amazon.com/Permatex-81150-Dielectric-Tune-Up-Grease/dp/B000AL2RI2
(you can purchase it cheaper at any chain Auto Parts store)
about 5 years ago in ALL of my connections. I've had a very few Bus connection failures since.

 

[n2585722]

The issue you describe is a buss issue. It could be a buss cable or a module. On the head unit select menu. Arrow down to system then click right arrow. Arrow down to info then click enter. There are three things displayed. Detached modules, Errors and rev. You are interested in the Errors. This displays tye buss errors. If the number increases a great amount is a short period then buss errors are the issue. It can be caused by buss cables or the module. It could also be something that is powering down on one of the PC4's. Small pumps are bad about doing this. If you can try the head unit and just one PC4 connected without anything plugged into the outlets. If it goes past the normal amount of time when you would normally have an issue add the other PC4. Let it run again for a while. Keep addding module like this untill the are all hooked back up. Then start adding things back to the outlets a few at a time. If you add something and it starts axting back up then you have it narrowed down to what ever was just added back. Just remember when you add a module you are also adding a buss cable also. Hope this helps.

 

[carmexx]

The issue you describe is a buss issue. It could be a buss cable or a module. On the head unit select menu. Arrow down to system then click right arrow. Arrow down to info then click enter. There are three things displayed. Detached modules, Errors and rev. You are interested in the Errors. This displays tye buss errors. If the number increases a great amount is a short period then buss errors are the issue. It can be caused by buss cables or the module. It could also be something that is powering down on one of the PC4's. Small pumps are bad about doing this. If you can try the head unit and just one PC4 connected without anything plugged into the outlets. If it goes past the normal amount of time when you would normally have an issue add the other PC4. Let it run again for a while. Keep addding module like this untill the are all hooked back up. Then start adding things back to the outlets a few at a time. If you add something and it starts axting back up then you have it narrowed down to what ever was just added back. Just remember when you add a module you are also adding a buss cable also. Hope this helps.

Haha, I just checked it and it says 4088 errors.


Sent from my LG-LS993 using Tapatalk

 

[cedwards04]

I started putting a little Dielectric Grease
https://www.amazon.com/Permatex-81150-Dielectric-Tune-Up-Grease/dp/B000AL2RI2
(you can purchase it cheaper at any chain Auto Parts store)
about 5 years ago in ALL of my connections. I've had a very few Bus connection failures since.

I keep a tube of this on my offshore boat and use it on all those connections. I had thought about trying it on this, guess I'll give that a shot.

 

[cedwards04]

The issue you describe is a buss issue. It could be a buss cable or a module. On the head unit select menu. Arrow down to system then click right arrow. Arrow down to info then click enter. There are three things displayed. Detached modules, Errors and rev. You are interested in the Errors. This displays tye buss errors. If the number increases a great amount is a short period then buss errors are the issue. It can be caused by buss cables or the module. It could also be something that is powering down on one of the PC4's. Small pumps are bad about doing this. If you can try the head unit and just one PC4 connected without anything plugged into the outlets. If it goes past the normal amount of time when you would normally have an issue add the other PC4. Let it run again for a while. Keep addding module like this untill the are all hooked back up. Then start adding things back to the outlets a few at a time. If you add something and it starts axting back up then you have it narrowed down to what ever was just added back. Just remember when you add a module you are also adding a buss cable also. Hope this helps.

I'll go check it as soon as my daughter wakes up. Tank is in her room. Yesterday I did try swapping out the main pc4 I was using for a spare pc4 to see if that was the culprit. I have a digital alarm clock plugged into it so that if it lost power through the night it will be blinking this morning.

 

[cedwards04]

Well, so far it appears that one of the pc4's may have been the problem. After swapping it with a spare, I've been well over 30hrs without any hiccups which is MUCH longer than it ever had before. Hopefully it is good to go.

 

[n2585722]

Well, so far it appears that one of the pc4's may have been the problem. After swapping it with a spare, I've been well over 30hrs without any hiccups which is MUCH longer than it ever had before. Hopefully it is good to go.

Keep an eye on the buss errors. A few are OK.


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

 

[macfin]

Check closely inside the BUS ports for any corrosion. If there is the slightest bit, it will play havoc on the test of the system. If you find any, scrape/clean, apply some DE, perform a hard reboot and you should be good to go.

 

[n2585722]

I have one PC4 that will do this and I isolated it to one of the buss ports. I cannot see any thing wrong with that port. It is used as a spare for now. I have not got around to replacing the jack assy on that port of the PC4 yet.