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For most of you, the Sol, Hydra, Hydra 52 are lights you might never have heard of. Some of us still have them, and have a lot of money invested, so are trying to every last drop out of them, hint to AI maybe an upgrade path with a discount on new lights
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One problem is how they are controlled, that is using a director, a black box connected to the cloud which are now like hens teeth to find. When the Director is working everything is great, but my issue was that it kept loosing power. It got to the point I was afraid to breath on it, or walk too close for the vibration knocking it out. Many days I would find the lights had stayed on all night, or never came on. I just lived with it, but today enough was enough. I striped it down and went a looking, I'm a geek and have my own stereo microscope, and was looking for bad solder joints, solder bridges, you name it. Really I was looking for things that really did not make sense, as this was a very sensitive power issue, like I said, breath on it wrong, that glowing fraggle green led glow would disappear, and then you would be cycling the power. I always cycled from the power wart end, as far away from the Director as possible, did not want to shake the Director.
What I discovered was I had the Beta version of the Director, the one with the SDCard, this card is used to store information, and my card is a 2Gig card, I'm sure was expensive at the time.
ANSWER: I needed to unlock the card, resit the card back into the holder, and return it to the locked position. This seemed to solve my problem, I can basically do a jig next to the card, and no longer lose power.
Have a look here for where I found the answer. I swear I have been looking for this for years, so much for Google knowing everything, but then maybe it was the operator..
Best Regards
For most of you, the Sol, Hydra, Hydra 52 are lights you might never have heard of. Some of us still have them, and have a lot of money invested, so are trying to every last drop out of them, hint to AI maybe an upgrade path with a discount on new lights
.One problem is how they are controlled, that is using a director, a black box connected to the cloud which are now like hens teeth to find. When the Director is working everything is great, but my issue was that it kept loosing power. It got to the point I was afraid to breath on it, or walk too close for the vibration knocking it out. Many days I would find the lights had stayed on all night, or never came on. I just lived with it, but today enough was enough. I striped it down and went a looking, I'm a geek and have my own stereo microscope, and was looking for bad solder joints, solder bridges, you name it. Really I was looking for things that really did not make sense, as this was a very sensitive power issue, like I said, breath on it wrong, that glowing fraggle green led glow would disappear, and then you would be cycling the power. I always cycled from the power wart end, as far away from the Director as possible, did not want to shake the Director.
What I discovered was I had the Beta version of the Director, the one with the SDCard, this card is used to store information, and my card is a 2Gig card, I'm sure was expensive at the time.
ANSWER: I needed to unlock the card, resit the card back into the holder, and return it to the locked position. This seemed to solve my problem, I can basically do a jig next to the card, and no longer lose power.
Have a look here for where I found the answer. I swear I have been looking for this for years, so much for Google knowing everything, but then maybe it was the operator..
Best Regards
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