[RE-wrenches] FXR , Mate 3, AGS and Must Run

Lou Russo lou at spreesolarsystems.com
Sun Feb 12 10:12:13 PST 2017


Aloha Wrenches,

I have steered clear of the Mate 3 for as long as possible, I have burned
through my stash of FXs and now have been installing the FXRs and using the
Mate 3. I typically utilize AGS for my clients in a 2 - wire start with a
Diesel Genset setup. On 2 recently installed systems, one a FP2 and the
other a FP1, the clients require "Must Run" to function. Of course it does
not work. I can get it to work if I set the time for a few minutes later,
but not for the next day. I have not used this feature ever in the past but
since it is in the manual I wrongly assumed it would work. I am running
firmware version 3.015 on both Mates. Tech support just wants me to do a
factory reset and reprogram. That did not work.

Anybody else having issues getting this feature to work?

On a related note, software problems are becoming a systemics issue in our
industry. Being recently burned by Schneider because of a software issue
(to the point of breaking an appliance), now this, and endless other little
bugs from almost every manufacturer my frustration level with software in
the off-grid world is at a all time high. Given the importance of supplying
power I firmly believe our manufactures can not and should not take the
same approach to software as Silicon Valley does. "Fail early and often"
may work for  Facebook, Google and Uber but it has no place in our
industry. Keep it simple and fight the urge to engage in feature creep.
PLEASE.


Aloha,

Lou Russo
lou at spreesolarsystems.com
440 345 6762 <(440)%20345-6762>
Spree Solar Systems LLC
CT-34322
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