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SXT wrong system health readings

Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 8:44 pm
by InoX
I have 2xSXT, one powered by 15v and one 24v and they shows 10.4v and 17.2v. Also temp is wrong 25 and 28. RouterOS 5.1.

Re: SXT wrong system health readings

Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 8:47 pm
by meno
ive the same problem

Re: SXT wrong system health readings

Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 9:33 am
by normis
is the temperature and voltage error very big for you too, meno?

I know that the SXT sensor is not very accurate, and should be used only to monitor changes, not measure accurate reading. We have improved this in the next hardware update.

But if the difference is very big, there could be a miscalibration issue when the unit was manufactured.

Re: SXT wrong system health readings

Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 1:38 pm
by InoX
Nice, broken units again.

Re: SXT wrong system health readings

Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 3:12 pm
by meno
is the temperature and voltage error very big for you too, meno?

I know that the SXT sensor is not very accurate, and should be used only to monitor changes, not measure accurate reading. We have improved this in the next hardware update.

But if the difference is very big, there could be a miscalibration issue when the unit was manufactured.
yes normis Ihad used ubnt throghcable level 1 with 24v power supply and the SXT reads these values.

its not a big deal ..

Re: SXT wrong system health readings

Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 7:08 am
by jagoda
I bought some SXTs this month (July) and still have same the problem (voltage ~16V instead of 24V).

Re: SXT wrong system health readings

Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 10:53 am
by normis
Meno, how long is the cable? The longer the cable, the bigger the voltage loss. This is normal.

Re: SXT wrong system health readings

Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 6:53 pm
by sup5
We've got the very same problem with our SXTs.

Even on the desk with a short and directly connected Ethernet-Cable
and 24V power supply I see only about 16V in System-Health.

In scenarios with 150m of PoE ethernet cabling (1x repeated inbetween with a PoE-Modded RB) we only see up to 4 Volts lost. But the SXT constantly shows much too less voltage.

Re: SXT wrong system health readings

Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 7:47 pm
by yogii
why it could be different, see mine.

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is it normal?

Re: SXT wrong system health readings

Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 3:26 pm
by janisk
just a note - voltage measurements are done behind some protections chains and that could lower displayed voltage, as actual voltage is lower in place where it is measured compared to voltage on jack of PSU.

Re: SXT wrong system health readings

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 10:50 am
by sup5
Yeah, I could understand this if it would have been about 0.7 to 1.2 volts droppped for masurement.
But eigth volts xdropped for measurement?

Re: SXT wrong system health readings

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 1:15 pm
by InoX
or 12v... :lol:

Re: SXT wrong system health readings

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 1:18 pm
by normis
this must be a calibration issue, please send the serial number of this device (8 or 12v difference) to support, we will check production logs.

Re: SXT wrong system health readings

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 4:20 pm
by brainy
Mine shows a temperature of 44C while it is in a romm that only hast 19C ... so what temperature does the sensor show? CPU?

Re: SXT wrong system health readings

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 8:17 am
by normis
Mine shows a temperature of 44C while it is in a romm that only hast 19C ... so what temperature does the sensor show? CPU?
yes, of course the CPU, not room temperature.

Re: SXT wrong system health readings

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 3:12 am
by kiwibrew
Well this bug scared the crap out of me this morning. I have 2x SXT-5hND units on the same new solar powered site. One is reading 10.3V, and another is reading 9.8V. I expect that both of them are receiving in the order of 13.4V. I'm going to have to put a remote serial port in to monitor the charge controller now that I know these boards won't give me an accurate power reading.

Re: SXT wrong system health readings

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 2:03 pm
by janisk
if you can couple precise voltage reading with reading from the SXT you can use the delta pretty reliably if surrounding conditions do not change much.

Also, there is around 2V voltage drop on PoE protection chains + drop on cable.

Re: SXT wrong system health readings

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:11 pm
by phendry
I'm guessing this doesn't just apply to the SXT's? We have a solar site where the solar charger accurately shows the battery voltage about 4V "higher" than an RB450G and 2V "lower" than an RB411AH. Very strange considering the RB411AH is PoE across 50m of cat5 as I would have thought the voltage would drop not increase ;)

Re: SXT wrong system health readings

Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2011 2:14 pm
by phil59
Exact same problem here... Anyone resolved the issue? Thx

Re: SXT wrong system health readings

Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2011 2:29 pm
by janisk
for older RouterBOARD product this value could be off by some value, if voltage is changing and other parameters does not, then error delta is the same. Newer boards have different scheme and that has higher precision.

Re: SXT wrong system health readings

Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2011 12:45 pm
by phendry
Newer boards have different scheme and that has higher precision.
Newer types of board or more recently manufactured? Can you confirm which boards use which scheme?