Normal start-up procedure after power on:
- Status LED blinking red during initialisation (time depends on tracker position)
- Status LED changing red / orange / green, three times to indicate initialisation complete (in this state the tracker is in home position)
- Status LED orange to indicate tracking without GPS (using previous GPS information)
- Status LED green / orange to indicate GPS position found but no time or not (yet) stable
- Status LED green to indicate GPS information complete (location, height, time and date)
- Status LED green / red indicate sun sensor more than 1.123 ° misaligned
- Status LED any colour combination blinking plus Off, SOLYS in power save mode
For example ‘orange, green, off’ means GPS position OK, waiting for time and SOLYS in power save mode (night time).
‘Green, green, off’ means GPS OK and SOLYS in power save mode.
The blinking is 1 s, so the last example shows 2 s green and 1 s off.
The misalignment of the sun sensor indication means it needs correction.
This can be done by disconnecting the sun sensor, realign the SOLYS (see chapter 2.7), connect the sun sensor again and check if
alignment changes. If it changes than also re-align the sun sensor again (see chapter 3.11.1)
Input voltage can be 24 VDC or 100 to 240 VAC, if both are present AC power will be used. When running on AC power and the internal
temperature is below -20 °C the tracker will not operate until -20 °C is reached (indicated by power / temperature LED) when running
on DC power alone the tracker will try to start even below -20 °C. When operating on DC power (heater not active) the interior will
remain above -20 °C for a long time, even when environmental temperature gets lower. The internal dissipation extends therefore
the temperature range below -20 °C.
Receiving GPS information can take up to 12 minutes
If all goes well, both the status- and power LED should be green
Start-up
Hardware error(s)
Initialization complete
Tracking without GPS
GPS position OK, waiting for time
GPS information complete
Radiation too low to use sun sensor
Sun sensor not properly aligned
Power save mode (night)
SOLYS status LED
Red - blinking
√
3x
√
(√)
Orange - blinking
3x
√
(√)
Green - blinking
3x
√
√
√
(√)
Red - on
√
Orange - on
√
Green - on
√
Off - blinking
√
Temperature < -20 °C, fan OK, input voltage OK
Temperature > -20 °C, fan OK, input voltage OK
Temperature < -20 °C, fan error, input voltage OK
Temperature > -20 °C, fan error, input voltage OK
SOLYS power/temperature LED status
Red - blinking
√
Green - blinking
√
Red - on
√
Green - on
√
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