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I appreciate your offer to have a look. Unfortunately, we’re quickly hitting watering season. Additionally, this unit has worked flawlessly for years and perhaps it’s time for me to just get a new one from you. This would allow me to continue watering while the new one ships.

I was just hoping that I could possibly have a look at the eeprom and potentially fix it myself. It’s not that big of a deal, however.

Thanks again for the help here.

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Thanks for the direction. I’m guessing something is messed up in the EEPROM. I do have some experience with microcontrollers, etc. Any (reasonable) chance of me digging in to diagnose that?

🙂 Very aware of putting 24 VAC on something that’s not designed for it would create a bad day for the device. I was just highlighting one of the steps I ran to test (using a 24VAC transformer to actuate the solenoid designed for such – completely isolated from the rest of the system – other than the water lines themselves, I suppose. ha!)

As an update, I read several pages in to this forum where you mentioned that anything up to 12vdc would be safe for the frontend circuitry. I used a 12vdc 1amp supply and this was able to open and hold the valve. Using a scope, I watched the capacitor you use for the inrush demand (awesome design, btw) and saw no ~22v charge. I guess this is expected as it thinks it’s an AC controller. So I view this as a temporary workaround.

Happy to tinker/test if you can help. Otherwise, I’ll consider ~8 years a decent service life and order new, etc.

Thanks again.

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Tried a few older FW versions as well. Still detects as AC during boot.

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I reapplied the FW for the heck of it.

During boot, I briefly see v2.3 AC as it boots.

I have the DC label and the black barrel connector.

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I’m confused as well. 🙂 (Thanks for the quick response)

I have a DC label and using the original DC supply. I checked voltage on the supply and it’s within spec.

The app is clearly reporting 2.2.1 (1) AC.

I can reapply the FW if you think it’d help!

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BTW, I’ve tested the master valve by using a 24 VAC transformer. It opens and passes water as it should when energized.

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That was it, Ray. Thanks. Vera had switched it to manual and I didn’t notice.

Do you know of a way to issue a “run-once” via HTTP POST/GET? I’m wondering if I can extend the Vera Plugin to support that.

I like using Vera as it keeps me from poking a hole in the firewall and setting up a port forward. (among many other reasons)

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