ATI troubleshooting

[Rob.In.AZ]

Trying to isolate an issue with my light.
Going back, maybe last summer or fall it started. Both light channels and the fan would just shut off. I’d have to flip all the outlets to off then on, not auto (Apex). Once things were on I could flip back to auto and they’d stay on.

That went on for a few weeks then went away.

Started up again the last week or so. Now it happens when my main lights flip on. I thought it was the Apex itself at first, but I rearrange things so the lights run on a separate EB and it did it again. I think it was as the main light came on, but can’t say 100% because I was kinda head down working.

So if it’s the light. Ballast?
I can disconnect one of the ballast off the main lights, then the other to see if I can isolate it. Unless it’s not the ballast and it’s something else?

The other weird part is, the apex outlets don’t switch on or off after it happens. For a while. Like overnight.
Can’t here the relays switching.

Then the next morning, it works.

So the apex may be part of it. But IDFK.
The Apex is older so a bad relay isn’t impossible.

 

[Cichlid Dad]

Bump

 

[Rob.In.AZ]

Timely bump.

I got sick of trying to chase this down this morning and set out to isolate the issue.

Turns out, at the very least, I have 2 faulty switches on my DJ power strip. The EB8 was plugged into a bad outlet. Didn’t realize until I pulled an old EB8 out of mothballs, and everything worked minus the 2 bad outlets on there (which reef pro tip, if you set them to fallback = on they may work as always on outlets). It was plugged in to a random outlet for testing.

The EB8 plugged into the faulty DJ strip was pulling power over the aquabus but not enough to power things.

Messing with that was when I realized if I touched the plug for the apex, it would switch off. Possibly another bad outlet on the DJ strip, or a bad plug on the Apex I will sort it out tomorrow and address it accordingly.

Bunch of weirdness. But I think…think it’s because of the DJ strip.