Chris, They are in a heated basement so the cold isn't an issue. I'm heading back over there this afternoon to replace the mate 3 and see if the batteries have crashed again. This is the 2nd time they have been drained dead so I'm sure that they aren't in the best of health. I will remember to get a current reading from the batteries today.
John On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 10:57 AM, Chris Schaefer <ch...@solarandwindfx.com> wrote: > John, > What kind of environment are the batteries in? Given that we have been > experiencing some extreme cold as you know will kill a battery quickly. > > Christopher > > On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 9:49 AM, John Blittersdorf < > john.blittersd...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Jay, >> Glad to know you have had good luck with the mate 3. I am depending on >> it and OpticsRE to monitor some remote sites. The mountaintop transmitter >> site has worked flawlessly but the main problem is keeping the internet >> connection up there that is transmitted from another mountaintop site. At >> a second home remote site I saw a generator fail an exercise run on Sat and >> called the caretaker Sunday when the system was going down. It went off >> line at 9 pm yesterday but it is sunny this morning and everything came >> back on at 8 am but the caretaker will have to chain up and drive the 2 >> mile mountain road to manually reset the Eco-Gen. It might have been the >> last -9 degree night with 45 mile and hour winds. >> >> I was able to contact Outback this morning and the magic button is the >> UP button. Push and hold. That will release the lock button to work, then >> go to settings, system, then do clear internal datalog. There have been >> some issues with it not overwriting when memory runs out and it locks up. >> Also he said to go back to firmware version 3.011 or older.. I will once >> again ask the customer to consider adding solar as it would recover the >> inverter which would charge the generator battery and at least prevent >> battery abuse. It is great to watch the sun heal most of the ills. >> >> John Blittersdorf >> Rob Stubbins Solar >> >> On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 9:26 PM, Jay <jay.pe...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi john >>> >>> I'd like to know that trick, but just unplug the cat 5 cable and >>> reconnect. >>> That'll work. >>> I've not had any issues with the ags not working as planned with mate 3. >>> >>> But dead generator battery makes me think genny didn't start, system >>> shut down at LBCO. >>> >>> But a week to take it that low, I'd suspect a weak battery in the 48v. >>> >>> Jay >>> Peltz power. >>> >>> >>> On Dec 18, 2016, at 5:41 PM, John Blittersdorf < >>> john.blittersd...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> I have had several instances of the Mate 3 locking up where I cannot >>> program anything and the main screen is abbreviated with only one bar. The >>> first time this happened I had been given a command with 2 buttons to push >>> to unlock it from an Outback technician and it worked. >>> >>> Now it has happened again and it is a weekend and I don't remember the >>> keystrokes. >>> Anybody out there know what they are? >>> >>> This system is a gen set and inverter only. No solar. Either the >>> generator is not starting or the mate 3 is not starting it or something is >>> going on with the VFXR inverter and the mate. It worked fine for about 8 >>> months and worked OK on Dec 8 where it started the generator with the 2 >>> hour start...the only info I could recover... no events survived the total >>> power loss of dead generator battery and main 48 v bank down to 7 volts. >>> One other very puzzling thing is that the batteries went so low.. No DC >>> loads other than the inverter and Mate 3. Could the Mate 3 and the control >>> board on the inverter draw down 8 golf cart batteries from low battery cut >>> off to 8 volts in one week? This is the 2nd time I have had to jump start >>> this system back to life and it doesn't look good to the customer who ran >>> an identical system with an old Trace 2524 for years with no problems til >>> the Trace died of old age. >>> >>> John Blittersdorf >>> Rob Stubbins Solar >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>> List sponsored by Redwood Alliance >>> >>> List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org >>> >>> Change listserver email address & settings: >>> http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org >>> >>> List-Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/re >>> -wrenc...@lists.re-wrenches.org/maillist.html >>> >>> List rules & etiquette: >>> www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm >>> >>> Check out or update participant bios: >>> www.members.re-wrenches.org >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> List sponsored by Redwood Alliance >>> >>> List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org >>> >>> Change listserver email address & settings: >>> http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org >>> >>> List-Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/re >>> -wrenc...@lists.re-wrenches.org/maillist.html >>> >>> List rules & etiquette: >>> www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm >>> >>> Check out or update participant bios: >>> www.members.re-wrenches.org >>> >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> List sponsored by Redwood Alliance >> >> List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org >> >> Change listserver email address & settings: >> http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org >> >> List-Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/re >> -wrenc...@lists.re-wrenches.org/maillist.html >> >> List rules & etiquette: >> www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm >> >> Check out or update participant bios: >> www.members.re-wrenches.org >> >> >> > > > -- > > Chris Schaefer’s > <http:www.solarandwindfx.com> > > *Tel/Fax 585-229-2083 <(585)%20229-2083> or Cell 585-748-1870 > <(585)%20748-1870> * > *5115 South Hill Road ~ Canandaigua New York 14424**www.solarandwindfx.com > <http://www.solarandwindfx.com> ~ E-mail: ch...@solarandwindfx.com > <ch...@solarandwindfx.com>* > > > Thomas Jefferson, the author of our great Constitution, once said, > "democracy" will cease to exist when you take away from those who are > willing to work and give to those who would not." > > _______________________________________________ > List sponsored by Redwood Alliance > > List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org > > Change listserver email address & settings: > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > List-Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches. > org/maillist.html > > List rules & etiquette: > www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm > > Check out or update participant bios: > www.members.re-wrenches.org > > >
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