ReefKeeper rebooting

[telegraham]

Woke this morning to a rebooting ReefKeeper Lite head unit. Something must have happened overnight, as the unit was showing C vs F. Power cycled everything, and the head unit is stuck in a three beep reboot loop. Thoughts?

 

Thank you.

 

Jim

Edited October 13, 2016 by telegraham

[Bruleyii]

i dont know much about teh reefkeepers but sometimes with other hardware if you do a hard reset it can kick out whatever is causing the issue.

[WheresTheReef]

Might try to unplug other modules and plug them back one by one. Maybe if something's bad it will help identify it. Hopefully it's not the head unit itself.

[telegraham]

Contacted DA, and they suggested that rebooting "is usually a sign that the unit is not communicating fully with the power bar." Their suggestions were 1 - power off the power bars(s) so the system is completely powered down, then restart, and 2 - change the port on the power bar that the head unit is plugged into to see if that re-establishes communication. I did both, but no luck. I removed all the modules, and verified the firmware of each. Checksums didn't match, so I reloaded the same firmware starting with the PB4 first. That did the trick. Weird, because nothing had been changed.

[telegraham]

Thank you for the suggestions.

[WheresTheReef]

Glad you found the issue. Sounds like the firmware was corrupted somehow. I'll remember this in case it ever happens to me. Thanks for sharing the solution.

[Origami]

Glad you found the issue. Sounds like the firmware was corrupted somehow. I'll remember this in case it ever happens to me. Thanks for sharing the solution.

+1. Thanks for following up with the solution. It'll help others that encounter the same problem in the future.