Greetings Wrenches,

Wondering if any of you have successfully paired the new Powerflo16 with a
GS8048-A yet? There is no reason it shouldn't work yet I've unsuccessfully
been to a customer's site three times now without a fix. The Radian setup
had been in use with an FLA Trojan pack for years till their demise due to
the client unknowingly turned off the AC input source to keep them charged
for his backup system lacking PV. Network is too far away therefore I
didn't have Optics otherwise I would have caught it. Have not ruled out
that there may have been another fault with the Radian before all this but
the AC input seemed most logical and was known to be turned off by accident
previously.

Upon closing the Powerflo battery breaker to inverter the Mate3s lights up
momentarily while briefly receiving full voltage but then DC voltage sinks
to around 2-18vdc then either trips the breaker on the Powerflo16 or lights
up the fault indicator. Spoke with Midnite support and they recommended a
workaround to the BMS pre-charge boot up process but that didn't resolve
the issue either. I originally thought it must be a failed Spare215 power
supply board but after swapping there was no effect. Next return trip I
brought a Rosie with me and everything powered up just fine so I then
figured it would be the Spare 204 board stack but had the same exact effect
when I tried that swap today. My next step is returning to swap the
Spare-205 power control modules but first I'm going to unbox another
Powerflo16 at my shop and pair it with a brand new Radian that has not yet
been cannibalized. I've installed 42 Radians and only had two with failed
Spare-205 control modules but each time it was a similar outcome with them
being the last thing I swapped to success.

I'm thinking it must be a failed Spare-205 but since the Powerflo has only
been shipping for a couple months I just wanted to run this by the group to
see how many have successfully paired these two components at this point.
The Radian is still under warranty but that seems pretty meaningless at
this point. One way or another this job is going to be a loss at this point
but oddly still having fun working through a new head scratcher.

Thanks for any insight, Nick
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