Poweradjusts 2 and temperature sensors attached to Aquaero not recognized

nick2002a

Junior Member

Poweradjusts 2 and temperature sensors attached to Aquaero not recognized

Sunday, July 29th 2012, 4:49pm

Hello,
I have to confess that I am very new to the Aquaero family,
so my questions may seem a little on the dim side.
I have an Aquaero 5 Pro + water block with 3 x Poweradjust 2
USB devices (arrived just this Week) and I am trying to bench test the devices before
assembling inside my PC.
The firmware for the Aquaero is 1022 and it is hardware
5600. I'm not sure what version of the firmware the PowerAdjusts are using, but
given they were on backorder for two months, I'm assuming that these are new
units that were uploaded with the most recent firmware before they left the
factory.
The configuration that I am trying to setup utilizes 20 fans
and two MCP655 pumps.
I have 4 fans connected to fan headers 1, 2, 3, and 4. I
then have 4 fans connected to the first poweradjust and the two pumps with flow
sensors attached to the second and third poweradjust units.
I also have 8 temperature sensors connected to the Aquaero.
So the first question is, whilst cycling through the
different sensors and devices I can only see the temperature reading for
temperature probes 1, 2, 3, and 4. How
do I get to view the temperature for probes 5,6,7 and 8?
The second question is related to the fact I cannot see the poweradjust
units in the Aquaero. When I power everything up the pumps and fans attached to
the poweradjusts startup, but I cannot see them in the Aquaero. I have
connected the Aquabus High to the first PA unit, I then daisy chained the PA
units so that header 2 on the first went to header 1 on the adjacent PA unit
and so on.
The one thing that I thought was a little odd, is that the Aquabus High has
a four pin connector, whilst at the aquabus on the PA units is 3 pin, I assume
that the forth pin on the Aquabus high header is not used in this situation or
I am I missing a special cable?
Please help.
Best regards,
Stuart

Rioga

Junior Member

Sunday, July 29th 2012, 10:01pm

Hi nick!

There is a step you miss:

You have to connect one by one every power adjust to the pc via USB cable, open aquasuite 2012 Beta 15, update the PA to the 1004 firmware, assign a diferent aquabus channel to every PA (50 for the fist, 51 for the second...).

After that, you can connect the 3 PA to the aquaero via the aquabus in the way you describe. You will see 3 more FANs, 3 temp sensors and 3 flow sensors in aquasuite.

The aquabus only uses 3 cables, no problem with that.

Wish this will help you.

regards!

nick2002a

Junior Member

Monday, July 30th 2012, 2:15pm

Thanks for your help. I will give this a shot. Is there a reason that I can not see all 8 temperature sensors on the front of the Aquaero ?

Thanks

Stu

Rioga

Junior Member

Monday, July 30th 2012, 4:37pm

Sorry, i cant help with that, I have the LT version of aquaero.

bcikota

Full Member

Monday, July 30th 2012, 5:52pm

Hi nick2002a,

Are you saying that you can not see temperatures from sensors 5-8 on your Aquaero LCD?

Did you add additional information pages? You can do so from the Aquasuite 2012 or directly on the Aquaero, under User interface.

Kind regards,
Boris.

nick2002a

Junior Member

Monday, July 30th 2012, 6:54pm

Hi Boris,

Indeed I am referring to the LCD on the Aquaero, I am yet to install the Aquasuite, as have not actually installed windows on the system yet. I'm still in the loop testing and hardware testing phase. I did not know that I had to add the information page for temperature sensors 5,6,7, and 8 . I thought the Aquaero auto detected the sensors and displayed them accordingly. I see I am going to have to have a further play...

Thanks for you help.

Stuart

chippie

Full Member

Tuesday, July 31st 2012, 2:17pm

@Stuart,

To get the Aquaero to function correctly especially with the PA2's and the temp sensors you will need to configure it via Aquasuite as mentioned above (esp. with assigning different addresses to each PA2) but once done the information is then stored on each device. If you have a usb "A" to usb header cable you could always just connect them up to a laptop and configure them from there if you are not planning on installing an OS soon.

Install the latest software and then connect each piece of equipment in turn to the a USB post. Then update the firmware on each and assign seperate ID's for each PA2 as described by Rioga.

Hope all goes well with the build!

nick2002a

Junior Member

Wednesday, August 1st 2012, 12:19am

Hi Chippie,

That is a great idea, I hope to press the big red button this weekend. Both loops look to be in good shape, I just hope my ring main can handle the power

Stu

matthelm

Junior Member