Re: [RE-wrenches] Mate 3 lock-up

2016-12-19 Thread Jay
Hi john Thanks for that tip Interesting quandary. New revs seem to work better, more stable for RE. But yea they screwed up on the internal memory clear. Can you clear that via RE? Jay Peltz power. > On Dec 19, 2016, at 7:57 AM, Chris Schaefer wrote: > > John, > What kind of environment

Re: [RE-wrenches] Mate 3 lock-up

2016-12-19 Thread John Blittersdorf
Chris, They are in a heated basement so the cold isn't an issue. I'm heading back over there this afternoon to replace the mate 3 and see if the batteries have crashed again. This is the 2nd time they have been drained dead so I'm sure that they aren't in the best of health. I will remember to

Re: [RE-wrenches] Mate 3 lock-up

2016-12-19 Thread Chris Schaefer
John, What kind of environment are the batteries in? Given that we have been experiencing some extreme cold as you know will kill a battery quickly. Christopher On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 9:49 AM, John Blittersdorf < john.blittersd...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jay, > Glad to know you have had good luck

Re: [RE-wrenches] Mate 3 lock-up

2016-12-19 Thread John Blittersdorf
Jay, Glad to know you have had good luck with the mate 3. I am depending on it and OpticsRE to monitor some remote sites. The mountaintop transmitter site has worked flawlessly but the main problem is keeping the internet connection up there that is transmitted from another mountaintop site. A

Re: [RE-wrenches] Mate 3 lock-up

2016-12-18 Thread Jay
Hi john I'd like to know that trick, but just unplug the cat 5 cable and reconnect. That'll work. I've not had any issues with the ags not working as planned with mate 3. But dead generator battery makes me think genny didn't start, system shut down at LBCO. But a week to take it that low,

[RE-wrenches] Mate 3 lock-up

2016-12-18 Thread John Blittersdorf
I have had several instances of the Mate 3 locking up where I cannot program anything and the main screen is abbreviated with only one bar. The first time this happened I had been given a command with 2 buttons to push to unlock it from an Outback technician and it worked. Now it has happened ag