MP10 flashingwhite

Jimbo662 · May 30, 2016

Last Friday morning lightening fried my apex so I've had to plug everything into power strips for the time being. Everything else works fine except the MP10. I've googled but can't find this exact issue. I power it up (no apex connected) it's red for about a second, changes to white, fades to blue and starts running. it only stays blue for a second then starts flashing white. The prop runs slow. This last stage lasts for a couple of minutes the all goes dark. The only thing I can find on a white blink is that it indicates feed mode. I initially thought it was stalling so I soaked in water / vinegar but i get the same results after that.

Any ideas?

ReeferMaddness843 · May 30, 2016

Is it a slow or fast flash. Know that's relevant to the eyes looking at it, but may possibly have an answer depending.

Jimbo662 · May 30, 2016

To me it's slow.

ludnix · May 30, 2016

That sounds like the Misc. Error code, but maybe someone else has more experience with it. I would try hard-resetting the driver and see if that helps: http://support.ecotechmarine.com/en...-the-controller-on-my-VorTech-Propeller-Pump-

If not I would contact ecotech and see if they have any suggestions.

ReeferMaddness843 · May 30, 2016

http://ecotechmarine.com/faq/troubl...hat-do-the-different-led-error-codes-indicate

Here's the info I was able to retrieve at moment. Hope this is helpful

Jimbo662 · May 30, 2016

Sorry, I should have noted that. I tried resetting but the only button that reacts is the power button. I did send a message to ecotech but figured I'd see if anyone here had seen the issue.

46gReef · May 30, 2016

Same thing happened to me a week ago, I ultimately called customer support and they walked me through taking it apart and resetting the wireless board that's in there

WetWhistle · May 30, 2016

Hey OP try unplugging the Apex and leave it unplugged for 48 hrs. This will kill the onboard battery and force a diagnostic on the Apex. If the firmware got corrupted it should do a fix then boot. I had a short when water got on my power bar and it took down the Apex and I fixed it this way. Mine would not even turn on before I did this and after 48 hr it booted up no problem. Not saying it will fix yours but is well worth trying.

Jimbo662 · May 30, 2016

WetWhistle said:
Hey OP try unplugging the Apex and leave it unplugged for 48 hrs. This will kill the onboard battery and force a diagnostic on the Apex. If the firmware got corrupted it should do a fix then boot. I had a short when water got on my power bar and it took down the Apex and I fixed it this way. Mine would not even turn on before I did this and after 48 hr it booted up no problem. Not saying it will fix yours but is well worth trying.

OMG...THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for responding! That did the trick.

WetWhistle · May 30, 2016

I thought mine was toast and it worked like a charm.

Jimbo662 · May 30, 2016

As soon as everything was back online the MP10 started working again!

ludnix · May 30, 2016

Jimbo662 said:
As soon as everything was back online the MP10 started working again!

It wasn't working in the standard power strip but would with the fixed Apex? That's very strange but I'm glad everything is running again!

Jimbo662 · May 30, 2016

Yeah, I assumed since the WXM wasn't connected it would run manually. The only programming I had on it was a feed mode.

WetWhistle · May 31, 2016

That is because it was probably still synced. A factory reset of the pump would have fixed that to. Well at least should have. I find my pumps do that if I had a few synced and I removed one. I have to reset all of them and they worked.

It is great it is up and running again.