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Old 11-05-2015, 06:59 AM
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Quick update: Like Doug Weiler, I found the male Molex pin was blackened so I replaced it and made a new ground wire and reinserted and tested.

And the strobe worked. Until it didn't.

Pushing back and forth on the new pin and wire, I found the strobes would alternatively work and then not work.

Turns out the problem was the female pin at the power supply had become just enlarged enough, I guess, that the electrons would jump across the connection until they couldn't.

A little small flathead screwdriver pressure to close up the female pin fixed the problem.
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Old 11-05-2015, 12:59 PM
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it would be cool if the VP-50 had been designed to say "hey,you turned something on and it's not drawing any juice".
Bob,

That feature IS in the VP-50 - it is called current fault alert. You have to enable it for each circuit which you can do in setup.

Also, you can read the current of each circuit, and that is accessible any time form the main screen (it is not in setup).

Those two things should help you troubleshoot the problem. VP-50 manuals are still up on the web site.
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Old 11-09-2015, 05:25 AM
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My problem turned out to be a bad crimp connection at the wingtip. I cut off all the strobe connectors at the right wing tip and re-did them and all is well now.
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