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Color Control GX manual
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for any reason (after any operational fault or during a black start). The VE.Bus devices will not boot-up
until the CCGX has power …but the CCGX will not boot-up until it has power. This deadlock can be
rectified by briefly unplugging the CCGX VE.Bus cable at which point you will observe the VE.Bus
products will immediately begin to boot-up.
This deadlock can be avoided in two ways:
Power the CCGX from the battery; or
Cut pin 7 in the VE.Bus cable connected to the CCGX
Cutting/Removing pin 7 of the VE.Bus cable to the CCGX (brown/white according to standard RJ45
ethernet cable colour coding) allows the VE.Bus products to start up without waiting for the CCGX to
boot up first.
The disadvantage of cutting pin 7 is that switching the VE.Bus device off will be less effective:
although it will stop charging and inverting, it will still be in standby mode and therefore drawing
more current from the battery than if pin 7 had been left in place. Typically this is only relevant in
Marine or Automotive systems where it's normal to regularly switch the VE.Bus device off. For those
types of systems we recommend that you do not cut pin 7, but simply power the CCGX from the
battery.
