If either response to the LED interpretation prompts is incorrect or you exceed the 30 second time limit, the bridge displays the message “Access Denied” and performs a reset with the current administrator password retained. You will then need to repeat the FORCE command to retry the LED interpretation.

Example

To successfully interpret the eight LED display, you must read the LEDs from 1 - 8 (refer to the illustration in the FORCE command example) with LED 1 representing the most significant (left-most) binary digit and LED 8 representing the least significant (right-most) binary digit. A solidly lit LED is translated into a 1 and an unlit LED is translated into a 0.

The 2-digit hexadecimal number represented by these eight binary digits must then be entered as the response to the bridge prompt. If you

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