Posted: Tuesday Sep 1st, 2020 08:42 am |
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OhPinchy
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I have been getting a repeated Power Failure - Controller message on my keypads. I get a failed to connect to UCM message when I try to connect via Comfigurator (though it did work yesterday for a while). I run all my house automation off the UCM Pi and that is offline also.
I tested the power input to the mainboard on my master Comfort panel and got a 15volt reading and a 14v reading on the output terminals that feed PIRs etc. (so power is making it into and through the board). The backup battery was down at 12.5v so I swapped it with one from my slave panel that was 15v.
I have had no power outages recently. Any ideas on what may be causing both the error message and the system being offline for Comfigurator and UCMPi? Thanks
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Posted: Wednesday Sep 2nd, 2020 03:05 am |
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slychiu
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Perhaps the UCM/Pi is sometimes drawing too much current from the Main Comfort PCB, together wth other keypds etc. If you have a Slave with battery backup, try connecting the UCM/Pi to that instead of the Main PCB. You may also need a separte 12V supply for the UCM/Pi if that does not fix it
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Posted: Wednesday Sep 2nd, 2020 06:18 am |
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Swiss-Toni
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slychiu wrote: Perhaps the UCM/Pi is sometimes drawing too much current from the Main Comfort PCB, together wth other keypds etc. If you have a Slave with battery backup, try connecting the UCM/Pi to that instead of the Main PCB. You may also need a separte 12V supply for the UCM/Pi if that does not fix it
Hi Slychiu is there a table of the amp pull on the cytech components:UCMsKeypadsRIOsSCSsRelaysObviously PIRs are outside of your remit, but it may go some way to help prevent power cycle issues and over demand on the system.
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Posted: Wednesday Sep 2nd, 2020 06:32 am |
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We do not have a table of all the devices but each product manual will state its typical current draw
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Posted: Wednesday Sep 2nd, 2020 06:39 am |
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Thanks. UCMPi is powered from a completely separate 12v power supply so should not be affecting main panel power draw.
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Posted: Wednesday Sep 2nd, 2020 06:39 am |
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Swiss-Toni
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slychiu wrote: We do not have a table of all the devices but each product manual will state its typical current draw
Thanks for that I must have ovelooked that in the manuals, and will start creating my own reference table.
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Posted: Wednesday Sep 2nd, 2020 10:32 am |
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Perhaps something in your system is intermittently drawing too much current.
Read the event log to check when this power failure event occurs
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