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EA3 Broken-Can it be fixed?


BKGarland

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Our EA3 does not show any colored (blue.red, yellow) lights when plugged in to our POE.  We got a new router and hooked it up the same way, but a day later the EA3 does not work at all.  Is it fixable?  Is it just locked up?  Can anyone help?  Thank you

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Is is your EA3 powered from a poe?  If so try connecting Is the regular power to it. Maybe when your router was changed, They changed the switch also.. Kind of need more information like is your router then plugged in to a core switch and then the core switch feeds the EA3? If so is it a managed force which? Maybe the Poe port was shut off for power

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I would recommend performing a network reset on the EA3.

To reset the controller network settings to the default: 1 Disconnect power to the controller. 2 While pressing and holding the ID button on the back of the controller, reconnect power to the controller. 3 Hold the ID button until the data, link and power LEDs are solid blue, then immediately release the button.

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On 6/19/2021 at 9:50 AM, Nick Wanerka said:

Is is your EA3 powered from a poe?  If so try connecting Is the regular power to it. Maybe when your router was changed, They changed the switch also.. Kind of need more information like is your router then plugged in to a core switch and then the core switch feeds the EA3? If so is it a managed force which? Maybe the Poe port was shut off for power

It is powered by a POE.  Our installer took our power cord (because we don't need it) so I will need to go buy one.  Sorry IDK what a core switch is??  Our set up is router has some direct plugged in and others is plugged to the router to the switch that has additional ports (extender maybe the proper name??).  However, the EA3 is powered by POE that comes from the router. 

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On 6/20/2021 at 9:28 PM, BKGarland said:

It is powered by a POE.  Our installer took our power cord (because we don't need it) so I will need to go buy one.  Sorry IDK what a core switch is??  Our set up is router has some direct plugged in and others is plugged to the router to the switch that has additional ports (extender maybe the proper name??).  However, the EA3 is powered by POE that comes from the router. 

While I'd imagine they exist I've never seen a router with POE ports.  Are you sure it's actually getting power through that POE?  Also, if you got a new router it could be on a different IP scheme.  You'd want to do a network reset like mentioned earlier.  This would only change the IP address of the EA3 though so any other device being network controlled would need to be given a new IP address as well.  You're probably going to need to get a dealer involved.  

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On 6/22/2021 at 3:21 PM, Nick Wanerka said:

Well that might be your problem.  The router is not usually a poe switch also. I have never seen a poe switch/router in one . I might be wrong but that is probably your problem. Your plugged into the router and expecting to get poe out of it and you won't 

Some routers are also POE switches... example (we have one in our basement) Cisco RV345 POE - https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/routers/rv345p-dual-gigabit-wan-poe-vpn-router/model.html

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