Blinking LEDs

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Blinking LEDs

Post by Ody » Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:00 pm

The last two mornings I woke up with all three LEDs blinking but the flow generator was still pumping correctly. I think.... The only way I could get things going again (keeping in mind I was half asleep) was to pull the AC plug, wait 5-10 seconds and plug it back in again. Does anyone have any idea what causes this?

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Post by geoDoug » Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:26 pm

Something similar happened once to me right after I slid my card back into the slot. The lights kept flashing AND it wouldn't stop beeping (only beeps once when you insert the card.) I know I put it in correctly. So I just took the card all the way out and then put it back in again. Fixed the problem right away and it's worked fine ever since.

No idea why it happened, but I'm not questioning it. Weird.

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Post by Snoredog » Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:31 pm

could be functioning Normally depending on if an error code was being displayed on the LCD.

If you have Mask Alert enabled and Auto:off disabled it will sound the alarm and flash the LED's during Large Leak. If you press the On/Off button or Ramp button it should stop.

If you are waking up, you may have been mouth breathing. Without the Alert feature being enabled (default) you wake up with the machine off and have no idea what was just happening.

I would rather wake up with the lights flashing letting me know there was a large leak than the machine shutting off.

someday science will catch up to what I'm saying...

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Post by msheda » Mon Sep 24, 2007 4:00 pm

It was your machine signaling to the mother ship, luckily, your prompt action has resulted in the planet not being invaded!

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Post by Wulfman... » Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:42 pm

msheda wrote:It was your machine signaling to the mother ship, luckily, your prompt action has resulted in the planet not being invaded!
You absolutely sure about that? I've heard they're hiding in DME businesses everywhere.

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Post by Ody » Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:26 am

I had the same problem again last night. I tried pushing the ramp button and the stop/start button. Button pushing did nothing and nothing was displayed except the flashing smartcard symbol. I used the remove card and reinsert to clear the problem.


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Post by geoDoug » Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:50 am

Ody wrote:I used the remove card and reinsert to clear the problem.
Insert Twilight Zone music here.

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Post by Wulfman... » Tue Sep 25, 2007 12:11 pm

Ody,

You've obviously got an "issue" with your smart card or the module it goes in. This situation would occasionally happen with the "Classic" machines, too. The only ways to get it to stop were pull out the card and re-insert it or unplug the machine and pull out the card and re-insert it. It typically only happened on rare occasions......like moving the card from one machine to another or maybe the first time after the card was erased or possibly the card wasn't inserted all the way in or in the exact spot it needed to be. The machine has to write the model/serial number on the card and maybe is having problems doing that or when starting to write data. Don't know for sure, but it DOES happen.

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