Excel 800

Alarm LED (red)

Table 38. XCL8010AU alarm LED

case

alarm LED

 

meaning

 

remedy

1

OFF

 

Normal operation

 

No action necessary

 

 

 

 

 

 

2

ON

 

Watchdog alarm output is powered

 

Try powering down and then

 

 

 

– The controller has encountered a

 

powering up the XCL8010AU.

 

 

 

hardware problem

 

If problem persists, check and – if

 

 

 

- or -

 

 

 

 

 

necessary – reload the application.

 

 

 

– The application has a fault

 

 

 

 

 

If problem still persists, replace

 

 

 

- or -

 

 

 

 

 

hardware

 

 

 

– The controller has been powered up

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

without an application or the operator

 

 

 

 

 

has manually stopped the application,

 

 

 

 

 

e.g., using XL-Online.

 

 

 

 

 

In this case, the LED will light up

 

 

 

 

 

13 minutes after power-up without

 

 

 

 

 

application

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3

Flashing

 

Although the controller has encountered a

 

If it happens only once, the controller

 

 

 

problem, the watchdog alarm output has not

 

has performed a restart

 

 

 

yet been powered.

 

If, however, it happens multiple times,

 

 

 

If problem persists, the LED will become lit

 

 

 

 

 

then there is an application or hardware

 

 

 

constantly, see case #2.

 

problem (see case #2)

 

 

 

The controller performs a warm start.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LONWORKS Service LED

Fig. 50. Flashing pattern of the LONWORKS service LED

The LONWORKS service LED of the XCL8010AU Controller Module displays the following flashing patterns indicating possible failure modes:

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