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Unread 08-03-2008, 14:48
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Re: Board dead

What you describe was a common occurence as I remember with v13 of the firmware. IFI tried to fix it with v14 but quickly did a bug fix and within a week or two issued v15, the current version. Also you did not state if you had any other tally lights on the RC. You may have an intermittant short due to a wayward metal shaving between two pins in one of the connecters, outputs, inputs or relay outputs. Check with a flashlight and magnifier. Remember that the reset and programming button can be remoted and a short there could be confusing the RC. Check everything.
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