Almost done with M1 install - need a bit of help please!

[Gearhead]

Awesome! Personally, email is the single biggest weakness of the M1 that drives me nuts... I'd rather see it just be openly not supported... at least then people could save the days/weeks wasted on troubleshooting it and go straight to finding a companion product that actually works.

Looks like a brand new XEP diagnostic utility was just released on the Elk website....I'm getting ready to give it a whirl.

 

[electron]

It's a pretty interesting tool, making it easy to share settings and test e-mail. I personally did have to reboot my M1 before this would work properly (maybe because of the required XEP firmware upgrade, but from what I hear, I was the exception).

 

[tmbrown97]

mwoc - don't get me wrong - I love my Elk... but, the XEP just isn't the world's IMO. I'm sure the next version will be awesome though!

I'm doing 90% of my stuff central to the elk still - but where I need more dynamic functionality, I'm looking outside - to Elve at the moment.

It just doesn't make sense for one system to be able to do everything - someone would find a way to ask more. That's where we bring in the better equipment that can handle any number of rules we want. Computers and software are way easier to keep up to date.

 

[tmbrown97]

Hey Dan - I had recommended the OP post his Output 2 issue specifically in the Elk subforum to get Elk's attention - I don't believe Spanky monitors the other threads too well - and it sounds like he's exhausted our recommendations without success. Hopefully it'll still catch his attention.

 

[electron]

Yea, that's why I didn't delete the other thread. Spanky has been extremely busy with other projects, but he told me he will be back at it soon enough

 

[Digger]

This has probably already been checked but.......

I have seen where someone put a resistor across output 2 but they miswired it to the incorrect terminal connections. From Top to Bottom the outputs go 3 then 2 then 1. If you think it is 1 then 2 and then 3 you will not have the resistor in the correct terminals. It is very easy to make this mistake.

Other than that I know that there is one transistor or FET on the board that could be damaged with an overload but not a short (been there and done that when I was testing the ELK where I used to work).

 

[tmbrown97]

Maybe that means our next panel is on the way :-D