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Re: spike relay problem?

Did anyone ever figure this out? I am having the same problem. In the programming I have it set that one button is forward, another reverse and when nothing is pressed it is off. The digital side car responds as expected, green light forward, red light reverse, and no lights when off. The spike (blue label IFI) responds to forward (green light on spike, +12 volts), but does nothing when reverse is sent to it. no clicking no nothing. Sending the kOn command turns on both the green and red light on the digital side car and the green light on the spike.

Why no reverse? such an odd problem.

when the command kOn is sent is it activating both internal relays? so I should be getting 12 volts from both output pins when compared to ground on the power distro panel? Just trying to figure out a way to trouble shoot and see if one of the relays are bad, I do not have another spike on hand at the moment to test by just swapping them out.
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