Intellibrite color led. Easytouch 4p box. Intermatic Px-100. Age 4 years
pool light goes on then goes out. 20 seconds on. Then 15 seconds. Then sort of random lengths. After several interactions of turning light back on after the light goes out (while light on indicator says light is still on) the light will stay on u til the egg timer turns it off three hours later.
Whew.
The transformer has wiring for 12v (white wire) or 13v (Yellow). Initially and currently wired for 12 v. Yellow wire is capped off.
Testing transformer. Good primary side power. However, I read 13v on secondary side. (Output side). What’s up with that? See above wiring color codes.
When the software indicates the light is on and the light is on, the voltage coil oscillates from 12.8 v to 13.1, settling at 13v. (After the transformer has been cycled multiple times—see below). I’d look then look at the light to ensure it is on. When the light goes out I walk back to the transformer and look at the voltage. 13.1. After doing this ‘transforming walk’ several times I decide to have the wife observe the light while I observe the voltage meter. Of course once I do this, the light NEVERS goes out. Hum. I was looking for some type of voltage anomaly the moment the light would go out. Dang.
So I button up the PX box and do the beer thirty thing at 6pm. I pondered why the light stayed energized while the wife was engaged, perhaps the light will stay in now (30 minutes or so after the wife assist). Well it didn’t.
Okay. Let me emulate why the light stayed on with the wife watching. Hey Lynn goes outside again....ha!
instead, I turned the light off once it de-energized, waited 5 seconds or so, then turned it in again. I did this two step until the light stayed on. Turns out that IS what I did before frustration set in and before I asked the wife for help, i.e., all the walking between the pool light and the transformer.
Conclusions:?
light works just fine
must be the transformer. After all why am I reading 13.1 volts? And why does the pool light stay energized after cycling the transformer repeatedly?
Jeez. Why is the PX-100 $80 while the transformer is $77. Not fair I say. Just not fair.
Thanks for reading this. Hope y’all have some sage advice for me the intermittently transformed.
pool light goes on then goes out. 20 seconds on. Then 15 seconds. Then sort of random lengths. After several interactions of turning light back on after the light goes out (while light on indicator says light is still on) the light will stay on u til the egg timer turns it off three hours later.
Whew.
The transformer has wiring for 12v (white wire) or 13v (Yellow). Initially and currently wired for 12 v. Yellow wire is capped off.
Testing transformer. Good primary side power. However, I read 13v on secondary side. (Output side). What’s up with that? See above wiring color codes.
When the software indicates the light is on and the light is on, the voltage coil oscillates from 12.8 v to 13.1, settling at 13v. (After the transformer has been cycled multiple times—see below). I’d look then look at the light to ensure it is on. When the light goes out I walk back to the transformer and look at the voltage. 13.1. After doing this ‘transforming walk’ several times I decide to have the wife observe the light while I observe the voltage meter. Of course once I do this, the light NEVERS goes out. Hum. I was looking for some type of voltage anomaly the moment the light would go out. Dang.
So I button up the PX box and do the beer thirty thing at 6pm. I pondered why the light stayed energized while the wife was engaged, perhaps the light will stay in now (30 minutes or so after the wife assist). Well it didn’t.
Okay. Let me emulate why the light stayed on with the wife watching. Hey Lynn goes outside again....ha!
instead, I turned the light off once it de-energized, waited 5 seconds or so, then turned it in again. I did this two step until the light stayed on. Turns out that IS what I did before frustration set in and before I asked the wife for help, i.e., all the walking between the pool light and the transformer.
Conclusions:?
light works just fine
must be the transformer. After all why am I reading 13.1 volts? And why does the pool light stay energized after cycling the transformer repeatedly?
Jeez. Why is the PX-100 $80 while the transformer is $77. Not fair I say. Just not fair.
Thanks for reading this. Hope y’all have some sage advice for me the intermittently transformed.
