AquaIllumination AI Nano LED's are just blinking CAN YOU HELP PLEASE?

[Dirtinla]

bought this nano knowing it was defective...

person said after he changed the fan and plugged it back in the LED's just blinked every second or so...

I have talked to AI and they don't have a recommendation other than what I have tried already... which is:

change power supply

clean the connection between the touch board and the mother board

I tried running with a disconnected fan

tried running without the touch board

tried with a controller without a controller , switched controllers

updated firmware on the controllers

I actually got it to work one time so I know the LED's are all good but

for the life of me I cannot duplicate what I did to get it to fire up? I do know

I was able to play with the intensities with the controller in my hand.

I have searched the web

I see other's have had this problem but NOONE has posted a solution???

thanx everyone in advance... CAN YOU HELP ME?

-=Fred=-

[Exodus]

I had the same problem, this is very common its the Touch Board thats causing the issue. What I did was after taking it apart I put a piece of anti Static foil (Like the HDD Bags) between the connectors on the touch PCB and the main board and that corrected it. Wonderful huh? You fork out all the money hoping for a good 10-12 years with your new LED's and the damn product can't even hold up. I'm in market for a new LED fixture myself, something "other" than AI.

[Horerczy]

Led have long life. The electronics that control them not so much.

 

This is a common theme across any led light fixture that the drivers/controller/power supply fails first.

 

Excepting seriously crappy products, improperly shielded LEDs, and lemons of course

[Exodus]

The products that control them do in fact have the potential of having just as long as a life, unfortunately in the US people have just become accepting of being sold disposable crap as the company seems to think as long as they can make it last for a year, you will be happy and buy from them again. I'm a bit different I buy products that give me several years of use, typically I have to ensure they are manufactured in Japan, but I don't mind paying extra for a good quality product. AI is anything but.

[evilc66]

#1 point of failure in most power electronics -- electrolytic capacitors. They are also the case of many "blinking" problems in devices like this. If the power supply has been swapped out with a known working unit, then my guess is that the main control board is at fault. That's the board that does the driver coordination and interfaces with the external controller. There are a few electrolytic caps on that board (silver cans with a black stripe down one side of the top) for the switching regulator that powers the micro and the drivers.