Temp sensors error out

agentgreen · Post by **agentgreen** » Thu Oct 13, 2011 1:14 pm

It seems after I enabled WDT (watchdog) every day my 2 temp probes error out and stop sensing the temperature.

I notice this happens on the client and banner because they both read 0. When I get home from work, both sensors show ERROR on the controller.

I reset the controller and things are fine for a while, and then they drop out again.

Any ideas?

agentgreen · Post by **agentgreen** » Thu Oct 13, 2011 1:22 pm

Here is a screen shot of the Client, you can see the multiple drops since Monday.

rimai · Post by **rimai** » Thu Oct 13, 2011 3:10 pm

Did you always have 2 probes connected?
It could be that one of the probes may be defective.
Can you try using just one probe for the time being? If it does cause the problem, swap with the other one. What we are trying to find out is which one is malfuntioning if any.

agentgreen · Post by **agentgreen** » Thu Oct 13, 2011 3:19 pm

I've had the 2 temp probes for a while now.

I will disconnect one and see what happens.

agentgreen · Post by **agentgreen** » Fri Oct 14, 2011 12:08 pm

This just happened again, and it coincided with my metal halides coming on. They come on at 3pm, and as soon as they did, I got warnings about temperature. Checked the client and the temp gauges are at 0.

Wonder why this all of a sudden popped up.

agentgreen · Post by **agentgreen** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 12:18 pm

Just wanted to give an update to this.

I talked to rimai in PM about this and he felt it was due to my Icecap ballasts. For some reason, when the MHs came on, the temp sensors were erroring out.

He sent me a new modified board right away. I got the board, put it in the controller and re-uploaded my PDE.

I'm happy to say, it's now 3:18pm EST, 18 minutes after my MHs came on, and my temp probes are still reading appropriately.

Thanks a lot rimai!

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