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water level expansion problems

Posted: Wed May 03, 2017 8:38 am
by binder
my water level expansion has been unplugged for a while because I didn't have a good way to attach the pipe in my water reservoir. I plugged it in to my expansion hub yesterday and my salinity probe reading dropped from its normal 35 ppt down to 6 ppt. I unplugged the water level expansion and the salinity went back up to 35 ppt. I tried a couple more times of plugging and unplugging with the same results. I believe I tried different expansion ports but I don't recall now for sure.
I'm not sure what else to try with it. Any ideas or suggestions?

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Re: water level expansion problems

Posted: Wed May 03, 2017 8:53 am
by rimai
It may be bad :(
Do you get reading when connected straight into the relay box?

Re: water level expansion problems

Posted: Wed May 03, 2017 12:10 pm
by binder
rimai wrote:It may be bad :(
Do you get reading when connected straight into the relay box?
I was afraid it was bad.

I haven't tried it plugged straight in to the controller. I didn't even think to try that. I will test that tomorrow and see what it does.

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Re: water level expansion problems

Posted: Thu May 04, 2017 7:27 pm
by binder
So I tested it today and still nothing with the water level expansion device. I plugged it directly into my relay box and it still isn't reading anything. Any further checks I need to do?

Re: water level expansion problems

Posted: Thu May 04, 2017 7:28 pm
by rimai
Are you getting any bus locks?
Did you try a different USB cable?

Re: water level expansion problems

Posted: Fri May 05, 2017 4:17 am
by binder
no bus locks that im aware of. I will try a different, known working cable.
i will test more today when I update the code on the controller and change my light fixtures.

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Re: water level expansion problems

Posted: Fri May 05, 2017 4:07 pm
by binder
well, it appears to be working fine now. I tested a different cable and it worked. then I switched back to the original cable and that works just fine.

I think my problem was a combination of a faulty connection to the expansion hub and the usb contacts needed cleaned up a bit.

regardless, everything is working properly now. thanks!

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Re: water level expansion problems

Posted: Fri May 05, 2017 4:18 pm
by rimai
Awesome