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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">William, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I know there was a point that they changed processors, when they did that it made the power assembly, control assembly, and the ac assembly incompatible. I agree with you that it would have been nice that they
could have maintained this, but this change was quite some time ago, at least 7-8 years ago. I know for a fact they did stock both sets for a while, way past the normal warranty requirements.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">From what I remember the processor change was due to availability, the old processor was no longer manufactured… So to fix this Outback was forced to upgrade the processer.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">As for the drop mode, I’ve never has much of a use for it… But when mixing firmware revs normally using the most current version is best… this may be something that wasn’t tested as Outback has a lot of software
mods.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> RE-wrenches [mailto:re-wrenches-bounces@lists.re-wrenches.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>William Miller<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 02, 2016 6:15 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> RE-wrenches<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [RE-wrenches] Drop mode: who needs it?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Friends:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I have a customer who was basically victimized by a shady installer (who is no longer in the business). He was sold an undersized system with two
VFX3648 inverters and later two FX2548 inverters. One of the 2548s died and it was recommended I install all new boards. I am a bit disappointed that there was no option to try and figure out which board was bad, I had to install all three.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I was told the logic board has newer firmware and had to be configured as the master. I did so and we found that there was a glitch: About 5 seconds
before an auto-start the AC Use/Drop screen went to Drop mode. The generator started but ran for no benefit. We resolved this by reconfiguring the system so an older VFX inverter was master and resetting all units.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I have three questions:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Is there any known incompatibilities between versions of logic boards?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Is there a way to determine which board is defective and replace only that board?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">What possible use could the drop mode have and why is it even included in the menu structure? Can’t one just open a circuit breaker and achieve the same effect?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Any help is much appreciated, as always.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sincerely,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">William Miller</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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