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Nice Moonbus Photocells - Faulty? - ddaddy - 25-05-2023
For the last week or two my Robus 600 gate has incorrectly been triggered by the photocells when closing. It only happened at night.
I read that it could possibly have bugs in the photocell, so i've dismantled them and re-homed a small dead spider from 1 and tons of really tiny caterpillar type bugs out of the other.
After putting them back together and connecting them back up, it's not working at all!
The light in one photocell stays lit which means it's not receiving a signal.
The light in the other flashes 3 times which means it's not recognised by the control unit.
I've tried performing the re-recognition procedure of holding both Up and Set for 3 seconds. After about 10 seconds I hear a clunk and a click as the process finishes, but the photocell still gives me the 3 flash error.
Could the photocell be knackered? Are they known to die like this?
Or am I missing something regarding pairing it?
Thanks
RE: Nice Moonbus Photocells - Faulty? - ddaddy - 13-06-2023
In case anyone else reads this, I managed to get it working again.
I think the cables have been damaged over time, possibly by bugs.
Setting the sensors up on 2" of cable showed that they worked fine.
Luckily the cables used had 6 cores, so I was able to swap to use 2 different cores and now it works again.
RE: Nice Moonbus Photocells - Faulty? - JoeF - 11-07-2023
(13-06-2023, 04:03 PM)ddaddy Wrote: In case anyone else reads this, I managed to get it working again.
I think the cables have been damaged over time, possibly by bugs.
Setting the sensors up on 2" of cable showed that they worked fine.
Luckily the cables used had 6 cores, so I was able to swap to use 2 different cores and now it works again.
Hi,
Great to hear its now working.
Many thanks
Joe