5526Rvf Spacelogic C Bus

I have had cbus for over 10 years and have had to replace one of the relays - I have purchased this one but the channels will not light up. Both the unit and c bus lights are on green

 

Hello Donna.
Did you have the relay programmed?

 

Tried to do a software upgrade but only want to connect to digital
Dimmer and would fail the upgrade

 

Perhaps it is 5516RVF?
I'm not familiar with the new family of relays and Spacelogic software but like every CBus input and output unit it will be non functional until programmed.
Someone else will reply soon I am sure.

 

Did the electrician that replaced the unit , not program it?

 

Its a 16 Chanel LED lighting relay it will need to be programed using the new CBus toolkit software and a PC. also need to know how the old unit was programed so it will work as the old one did data base would be handy.

 

The 16 channel relay needs to be programmed with C-Bus commission software. This is a breaking release as it uses CGate server V3. SE have completely dropped the ball with software lately. You really can't have old version V1.16.4 on the same PC as C-Bus commission (a completely un-intuitive piece of software) due to conflict in in CGate versions. I have managed to install both on a laptop but it's pretty unstable.

The real pain in the arse is that you need commission to program new relays and dimmers but it can't program many legacy products such as eDLTs (yet). A complete balls-up! When you need to do this day to day, it's a major drain on time which you can't charge customers for. I would typically swap out a relay unit and program in 30 minutes (electrically and programming) but it now takes me over 1.5 hours (commission crashes constantly and won't upgrade the old CGate files).

Good luck with tackling this. Put aside a fair chunk of time.

Schneider Electric, please get your shit together! You look like fools ATM. Stop focusing on names (renaming) and marketing and get it together on products and software.