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    Anti Ice Annunciator Led Problem

    Hi,

    I have a strange problem in that the Cowl Valve Open annunciators on my overhead never light up.

    Believing this to be a case of crossed wires or bad soldering I recently tested the leds (they both light up ok) and then re installed the Phidget 64led card to which these are connected from scratch.

    Results the same as before.

    These two do NOT light up using the Phidget menu and assignment check within PM systems.

    These two do NOT light up using the Master Light Test switch.

    They obvioulsy do NOT light up either if i use Anti Ice..

    If I disconnect these from the Phidget Card and use a voltimetre or battery check against the actual Phidget 64 connector then the work and light ok OK..

    Im confused… any ideas?

    BTW ALL other LEDS and Switches are working as they ahould..

    Rgds
    Peter


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    are you using 2 leds in series and one of the 2 is reversed in polarity ?



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    Hi Stef,

    Nope I already checked that..

    Cheers
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    Peter,

    I do not have any idea how phdigets work but I use SIOC with PMsystems and my experience is sometimes the PM systems value messages are decoded reversly. I mean when the led is on at PM systems the value is given as 0 instead of 1 so SIOC gets confused. For such situations I have added a simple code to reverse the command. Simply if PMsystems variable is 0 then SIOC variable is 1 sort of thing.

    If you are able to do this in Phidgets this could be the only advise I can give...

    I hope it works

    Regards,

    barkay

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    Hi

    If you take a look to the Offsets you will find that they are Bytes and not Bits. And more you will see that they have the state
    0 = OFF
    1 = DIM
    2 = BRIGHT

    So you need to setup your hardware in this way to get it work.
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    Thomas

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