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Default Faulty MDS8RW101 - Vantage Controls - 120V Fused Dimming Module

Hi Chery -

This is a late response, but perhaps it will help someone else.

I could not follow some of your descriptions of on/off actions. Here is what I recommend. Turn off all circuit breakers that go to your Vantage modules, then turn them all on. If you have one enclosure, your CPU (master controller) will be rebooted by one of the circuit breakers. This is good. It will take a minute or so for it to reboot. If all works, you are good. If nothing works or you have more than one enclosure and only some light switches work but others do not, you have problems so continue reading.

Now you want to try to manually control individual circuits. There is a feature called Override which permits you to test without allowing the CPU do the work. In the master enclosure (has the CPU), there is an Manual Override switch. If the enclosure is not the master, then the Override feature may be linked to the master enclosure (this is normal) or it could be configured to only override that enclosure.

When Override is switched 'on', you can control individual loads/lights. This accomplished by the 8 micro white switches on the top of each module in the enclosure. Switch up = on, switch down = off. If you can control each load then the 8-load module is not the problem. If you cannot control anything unless Override is active, a controller is suspect - either master or slave.

When the enclosure is a 'slave' enclosure (2nd, 3rd, ... enclosure), if the CPU location in that enclosure is filled with an aluminum box, you have a slave controller for that enclosure. I have seen Master and Slave controllers fail due to lightening. The weak point in both is the power supply in those boxes. Replace those boxes and you will be good to go. A slave controller only needs to be replaced - no other action necessary. If it is a master controller, it will have to be programmed with your configuration. Hopefully that programming is available to you.

If the slave enclosure has no aluminum box that reads 'Slave Controller', you have the newer InFusion configuration and will only see a circuit board at the bottom of the enclosure. For these, there is no slave controller to contend with.
 
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