I had the IntelliTouch full load center that I bought and installed about 6 years ago and it worked great till about 10 months ago when ants got inside and killed it. I opted to get the Intellicenter upgrade kit (i10ps) and after several months of backorder I finally got one and installed it. Got it fully set up, firmware updated and it ran for about 2 days then just died. No response, screen dead, cannot connect via app, nothing. I ended up getting it warrantied through the vendor that I purchased it from, waited another couple months for another backorder and installed the new entire kit with new transformer, main board and expansion board. Same thing, updated firmware, got it fully set up with all my equipment and addons, and it worked perfectly for about 2 months. Then blam, died again, same thing as last time. I called Pentair and they actually sent me out a new board, to which I got it installed and it lasted about a week. Funny thing on this is that they only sent the main board so I used my expansion board from the last one - the expansion board was never recognized by the new board so I guess whatever happened took out the expansion board as well?? I don't know what is going on, it is clearly installed correctly or it wouldn't run in the first place. I have it on a dedicated 15A GFCI/AFCI breaker in my load center (sub panel), and my main panel at the pole has a surge protection unit on it. I have verified that the transformer is still putting out voltage. I've read where some others have had issues with this board dying and wondered if there is anything else I can do to protect it so this doesn't keep happening?
I am referencing this thread in particular. @ogdento were you able to determine anything else on the board you looked at? I am now in possession of 2 dead Intellicenter boards and can solder/replace parts if I know what I am looking for. I have some electronics experience but not enough to troubleshoot the entire circuit on my own. If you have any tips or things I can do to check my boards out I would greatly appreciate it! I just need to figure out what keeps burning these out! I have had some storms around the time of each failure but I was hoping my other precautions would have kicked in and saved it. I am using the wireless connection that comes with the upgrade kit, so no direct ethernet from any of my switches or equipment and I do not have anything connected externally via com ports except the VSF pump and SWG.
@Phil G which .80 part are you referring to on yours?
I am referencing this thread in particular. @ogdento were you able to determine anything else on the board you looked at? I am now in possession of 2 dead Intellicenter boards and can solder/replace parts if I know what I am looking for. I have some electronics experience but not enough to troubleshoot the entire circuit on my own. If you have any tips or things I can do to check my boards out I would greatly appreciate it! I just need to figure out what keeps burning these out! I have had some storms around the time of each failure but I was hoping my other precautions would have kicked in and saved it. I am using the wireless connection that comes with the upgrade kit, so no direct ethernet from any of my switches or equipment and I do not have anything connected externally via com ports except the VSF pump and SWG.
@Phil G which .80 part are you referring to on yours?