Hi Everyone,
I've a RKE system for about 6 months which consists of 4 power bars, lunar, PH/temp/orp, network and hub/splitter modules. I also have the USB cable hooked up to a laptop which I use to monitor the graphs and apply software updates.
While I was away on business.... of course everything goes wrong when you are traveling, right? The house sitter called and said the tank is acting funny????? Not something you want to hear when you are 1000 miles away!
Anyways long story short the RKE system seemed to have gone into a error mode which resulted in only the devices set to Default On were running because when I set up the system I made sure the recirculation pump and skimmer would continue to run. So upon my return there was a error code on the screen (forgot to write it down) and all the various devices where flashing blue lights and laptop wasn't reading any data. So my first thought was disconnect the laptop, reboot and see what happens. I shutdown the laptop and disconnected the phone cord for the USB device from the hub and magically.... the RKE system came back on line! So just for the heck of it I disconnected the USB from the laptop and plugged the phone cord back into the hub and the RKE system shutdown again and went into a error mode. of course unplugged it and everything is fine
so to sum it up it seems like the USB connctor has failed but I'm curious if this is just a one off situation or has other experienced this problem? Follow up question how could the failure of this USB device crash the entire system?
Any other advice is always appreciated.
Thanks!
I've a RKE system for about 6 months which consists of 4 power bars, lunar, PH/temp/orp, network and hub/splitter modules. I also have the USB cable hooked up to a laptop which I use to monitor the graphs and apply software updates.
While I was away on business.... of course everything goes wrong when you are traveling, right? The house sitter called and said the tank is acting funny????? Not something you want to hear when you are 1000 miles away!
Anyways long story short the RKE system seemed to have gone into a error mode which resulted in only the devices set to Default On were running because when I set up the system I made sure the recirculation pump and skimmer would continue to run. So upon my return there was a error code on the screen (forgot to write it down) and all the various devices where flashing blue lights and laptop wasn't reading any data. So my first thought was disconnect the laptop, reboot and see what happens. I shutdown the laptop and disconnected the phone cord for the USB device from the hub and magically.... the RKE system came back on line! So just for the heck of it I disconnected the USB from the laptop and plugged the phone cord back into the hub and the RKE system shutdown again and went into a error mode. of course unplugged it and everything is fine
so to sum it up it seems like the USB connctor has failed but I'm curious if this is just a one off situation or has other experienced this problem? Follow up question how could the failure of this USB device crash the entire system?
Any other advice is always appreciated.
Thanks!