Mr Spock
Active Member
I’ve had a small UPB network at my new construction house for about 2 years. I’ve not expanded it because of never ending noise problems. I’ve tried to trace it down with a laptop and PIM but can’t find the source. Its very intermittent and varying in intensity. I’m guessing its coming from outside the house, but not sure.
First I tried to improve the situation with a passive inverting phase coupler in my breaker box. It improved the signal strength on opposite phases enough to work under most conditions. However its not good enough when this intermittent noise problem is occurring.
Next, I removed the phase coupler and tried a repeater (SPR-1) in the breaker box. That leads me to my current problem…
This SPR-1 does not seem to be working right. The status LED never stops flashing magenta. The instructions I have say it should only momentarily flash magenta when it receives a valid UPB signal to repeat. When I put it in program mode Upstart can’t find it. Even putting the PIM within 10 feet of the breaker box with no noise problems (at that time) it still can’t find it. Its LED is flashing the red color in program mode, but Upstarts not finding it.
I tried the 5/10/2 button tap sequence to reset the device. It appeared it did reset. But it still acts the same. Meanwhile it is definitely not repeating the UPB signals as I have virtually no cross phase signal strength.
My local vendor has offered to exchange it, which I will be doing shortly.
Any comments or advice from the UPB experts?
First I tried to improve the situation with a passive inverting phase coupler in my breaker box. It improved the signal strength on opposite phases enough to work under most conditions. However its not good enough when this intermittent noise problem is occurring.
Next, I removed the phase coupler and tried a repeater (SPR-1) in the breaker box. That leads me to my current problem…
This SPR-1 does not seem to be working right. The status LED never stops flashing magenta. The instructions I have say it should only momentarily flash magenta when it receives a valid UPB signal to repeat. When I put it in program mode Upstart can’t find it. Even putting the PIM within 10 feet of the breaker box with no noise problems (at that time) it still can’t find it. Its LED is flashing the red color in program mode, but Upstarts not finding it.
I tried the 5/10/2 button tap sequence to reset the device. It appeared it did reset. But it still acts the same. Meanwhile it is definitely not repeating the UPB signals as I have virtually no cross phase signal strength.
My local vendor has offered to exchange it, which I will be doing shortly.
Any comments or advice from the UPB experts?