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Jonathan 
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 Posted: 25 Dec 2009 at 11:46pm |
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It'll be interesting to see Darryl's thoughts on this. Seems to be happening across the board.
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LightsOnLogan
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Posted: 25 Dec 2009 at 11:15pm |
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I just checked... the 1.06 downgrade was done with 2.2.0. Maybe these firmware writes are going out of bounds and corrupting the bootloader? Nah... that shouldn't be possible. The bootloader on these things are supposed to protect from that happening.
Edited by LightsOnLogan - 25 Dec 2009 at 11:20pm |
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Jonathan
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Posted: 25 Dec 2009 at 11:02pm |
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Trying to remember... I believe Firmware Updater v2.2.2 corrected an issue where the header wasn't being read properly. I tried to find the post on D-Light about it but was unsuccessful. So I suppose that an update done before v2.2.2 *could* have been corrupted.
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LightsOnLogan
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Posted: 25 Dec 2009 at 10:43pm |
I had to power cycle these exact same two controllers a couple nights ago because they were dark (it fixed it a couple nights ago). When I saw it tonight the first thing I did was go to the breaker box figuring they were just due again. It didn't work tonight and you know the rest of the story that started this post. That's not what you want to hear I'm sure, but you have reason to worry.
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LightsOnLogan
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Posted: 25 Dec 2009 at 10:40pm |
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I'd agree, except these two ACx8s were rolled back to 1.06 after I had problems with 2.0. I ran 1.06 for 3 years without incident. Of course, that is unless 2.0 did something that a 1.06 rollback doesn't reset. That wouldn't surprise me given some of the oddities going on with ACx16 1.17 and roll down/up procedures that I've read about.
I kept my ACx16s on 1.13 this year (I'm thankful I did that now).
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ChrisL1976
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Posted: 25 Dec 2009 at 10:32pm |
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you guys got me worried now. I checked my controllers and lights before the show. All controllers got discovered but no lights on one full controllers. Had to unplug it before it would kick the lights back on.
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Jonathan
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Posted: 25 Dec 2009 at 10:18pm |
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It's happening to the ACx16's too. I think it has less to do with the controller and more to do with firmware but that's just my gut feeling. Since I'm not an expert I can't comment with any real authority.
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~Jonathan
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LightsOnLogan
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Posted: 25 Dec 2009 at 10:14pm |
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It's not the ID... I figured out the EEPROM address for the ID by reading a good PIC and the non-responsive one still has its ID in that address. I wonder what makes these become unresponsive??
Note: I already PIC swapped one earlier this year which exhibited the same inability to discover and accept firmware. That makes 3 PICs down, all ACx8s. There are others in the yard that are still running but will not discover. I'm wondering how many hours it will be before they vanish too.
I thought about retiring the ACx8s this year but instead decided to put that on next year's budget. I'm regretting that decision now. Edited by LightsOnLogan - 25 Dec 2009 at 10:15pm |
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Jonathan
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Posted: 25 Dec 2009 at 10:01pm |
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Time to grab as many extension cords and power strips that you have and plug the trees into whatever else works. It will look painfully strange but people are more interested in the lights doing anything than they are in having them doing them in the right order.
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~Jonathan
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LightsOnLogan
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Posted: 25 Dec 2009 at 9:09pm |
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My wife just handed out some candy canes and explained that we'll be working on it. Everyone seems to be enjoying it even with 16 of 48 mini trees missing, so I'm going to keep it running instead of switching to the tech difficulties message.
One car had a 2 year old who said... "I can fix it! I got tools!" |
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