Control board V1.2 stopped working

[giacomo]

Good morning,
During an experiment with Chi.Bio, running a custom program we had already run a couple of times before without problem, after 5 minutes from the beginning of the experiment a popup error message appeared on the computer (‘software problem, experiment aborted’ or something like that) and the experiment stopped. The control board (which was connected only to the computer and to one reactor) switched off and we are not being able to switch it back on. We tried connecting to a different computer, powering with a different 5V power supplier, but it seems that the control board is dead. We did not use it much, just for 3-4 experiments, and had never given any sign of possible problems. What can we do?
Thank you

[harrison]

This is not an issue I have come across, is it possible the beaglebone control board got wet or otherwise damaged at some point? If this is the issue you could try replacing the beaglebone alone, or the entire control computer form labmaker. FIrst I would take it apart and look closely at the control board to see if anything is obviously damaged. If not, you could try connecting it to various other computers and maybe it will come alive, however, if not likely it is some hardware fault there that is not going to be easy to rectify yourself…

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