Controller help

[stjohnson90]

Hello all,

I have a controller that worked the other day completely fine. Its set to adress 3. Now I just plug it in with some light pluged in to the circuits to do some tests and im getting no LED status light and LOR is not seeing the conroller. I have a voltage tester and there is power going into the controller. The other weird thing is, it powers some circuits when I power up the controller. the the circuits go out.

Can anyone help??

Thanks!

Scott

[Guest wbottomley]

You need to connect it to the hardware utility via the LOR adapter. If done so, you may have a bad cat 5 cable.

[stjohnson90]

The thing is. Usually when you plug the controller into power the LED status light blinks until it sees data from the LOR. It isnt even blinking. And all the circuits are stuck on.

[james campbell]

sounds like you need to do a controller reset,depending on what controller you have it will vary on procedure,but i am assuming you havs a pc controller so this may help

http://www.lightorama.com/PDF/CTB16PC_Man_Web.pdf

[TJ Hvasta]

Does the board have two power cords? are they both plugged in? (with the cords UNPLUGGED), swap the fuses.

[stjohnson90]

Hello all,

As for the power cords... yes. Both plugged in. And I swapped the fuses and nothing.

In that manual I didnt see anything about reseting the controller. What page of the the manual is it on?

Thanks!

Scott

[Ron Boyd]

Hello all,

As for the power cords... yes. Both plugged in. And I swapped the fuses and nothing.

In that manual I didnt see anything about reseting the controller. What page of the the manual is it on?

Thanks!

Scott

http://www.lightorama.com/PDF/Kit_Troubleshooting_Guide.pdf

Resetting a board (removes a stand alone sequence, removes high/low burn setting, corrects various other

problems):

CTB16K/CTB16KV6 boards with Unit ID switches: power it off, set the switches to 00, power it on for a few

seconds, the LED will flash twice, pause, flash twice, pause…, power it off and put the Unit ID switches

back to 01.

CTB16K/CTB16KV6 boards without Unit ID switches: power it off, remove the jumper from J0, power it on

for a few seconds, the LED will flash twice, pause, flash twice, pause…,, power it off and replace the

jumper.

CTB16Kpcv1 boards: Power off, remove the jumper from second row of J0 pins, power on for a few

seconds, power off, replace jumper.

Edited September 18, 2012 by Ron Boyd

[stjohnson90]

The controller I have is a prebuilt CTB16PC V2

[Max-Paul]

I think that what you have is one of the PC models. There should be a black header to the right of the RJ-45 jacks. The second down set of pins have a jumper on it. With power off, remove the jumper. Apply power for a few seconds. Remove power and put the jumper back on. Test..

[TitanBry77]

I am subscribing to this thread, same controller, not even 1 year old, same problem. Keep us posted as will I.

[TitanBry77]

I thought I would post and update that I have determined the cause of my issue. The transformer on the board had a loose pin, the solder joints were fine but I noticed when pushing on the transformer I felt it move just a bit, if I held pressure on it, light would come on. So I de-soldered and sure enough bum pin. Its not even a year old so LOR is sending me a new transformer.