It's most likely the cable or grounding but it could be the pidu. I would verify good cabling and grounding and bring a spare pidu to try.
I can't remember what the recovery button does exactly, I think it's in the manual. -Sean On Friday, March 18, 2016, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > Those of you who have experienced a radio stuck in recovery mode, what is > the most likely cause? PIDU? Cable? Radio? > > I had one that has been in service for 5+ years do this earlier this year > after a power outage. But logging into it and clicking on Reboot from the > recovery mode web gui brought it back to life. Now it has done it again, > but it just reboots back into recovery mode. > > I have a spare PIDU that I will try. No signs of water in the cable but I > can get someone to climb next week and we can check that. I'm afraid > though that the radio may be the mostly likely cause. At that point it > might be easier to just replace the link with AF5X than to send the radio > somewhere for repair or buy a used one. > > Also, does anyone know what pins the PIDU shorts (or whatever it does) > when you push the remote recovery mode button? > >
