Guys, I‘m really fucked up now. It worked for a long time, anf all of a sudden the remote input turned inactive without a cause.
Voltages are ok, jumper is ok and plugged. Anyone experienced this?
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ORION Tr-Smart Remote Input inactive
There is a coincidence:
When I first installed the Orion, it was March 2020, ambient temps around 10°C, the L-H jumper didn't work, 12V to H-Pin was my workaround.
A few weeks ago I was curious if the jumper would work, it did. Ambient temps well above 20°C.
Now, temps again 15°C and below, it took 30-40min drive to switch to active. Because it warmed up!
My guess is a cold soldering of the L-Pin on the PCB, or a hairline crack of the line on the PCB to the L-Pin. Proof: I put 12V to H and it turned active. I put ground to L and it stayed inactive.
Dunno if I'm right, but when I'm back from vacation I will tear everything apart anyways to swap the 90Ah GEL with 250Ah LiFePO4 anyways, and then I will dismantle the Orion and have a look.
Hi,
I have a very similar problem with the remote. I use the H pin to 12V to turn ON & Off the charger and it worked for a while and now it does not. Shorting L & H does not turn the charger on either like it use to. The Engine Shutdown Detection Override option is OFF so according to section 4.4 of the manual, the charger should turn ON when H pin voltage is above 7V.
Strangely, if the Output of the charger is disconnected and reconnected, then the charger is turned ON regardless of the status of H or L pins. It also turns itself OFF if H pin voltage goes high...which is contrary to normal operation. This seems to indicate that the charger function still works but the remote pins L & H function does not anymore.
Any thoughts from your experience?
