O5 Control Head Lines

[curtisdevault]

I recently installed two XTL5000s in my vehicle and one of the control heads had some issues. I replaced it with a new control head that I got off eBay at a really good price. It was worth the risk.

When it turns on, it displays a series of vertical lines on the display then once fully powered up it looks great.

I’m pretty new to working with these model radios and I have not seen this in the 10 others I’ve been programming in the last year. Does anyone have any insight into this? Is it normal, if it’s not normal should I return it while I still can?

Thanks!
W0GIS

 

[mikewazowski]

That appears to be an older control head and if so, they did indeed show vertical lines on the display before they fully booted.

 

[a417]

That appears to be an older control head and if so, they did indeed show vertical lines on the display before they fully booted.

I've seen that recently, and it was on a control head that had a very early firmware in the head and as @mikewazowski mentioned wasn't fully booting correctly with the attached radio

 

[curtisdevault]

Oh! Firmware, I’ll check that tomorrow. I’m so used to working with old radios where firmware isn’t ever something I’ve had to deal with.

 

[KG4INW]

FWIW, we have numerous APX8500s that do that as well with their O5 heads. Haven't been able to pin down any particular hardware/firmware combination and while most of ours are of the same vintage, only a small percentage exhibit that behavior. They all work just fine though.

 

[curtisdevault]

FWIW, we have numerous APX8500s that do that as well with their O5 heads. Haven't been able to pin down any particular hardware/firmware combination and while most of ours are of the same vintage, only a small percentage exhibit that behavior. They all work just fine though.

That's very helpful as well. I had a feeling it was most likely some weird glitch or bug.

I also just wanted to document this somewhere online to hopefully help others since I could not find any discussion of this.

 

[nokones]

I recently installed two XTL5000s in my vehicle and one of the control heads had some issues. I replaced it with a new control head that I got off eBay at a really good price. It was worth the risk.

When it turns on, it displays a series of vertical lines on the display then once fully powered up it looks great.

I’m pretty new to working with these model radios and I have not seen this in the 10 others I’ve been programming in the last year. Does anyone have any insight into this? Is it normal, if it’s not normal should I return it while I still can?

Thanks!
W0GIS

I've noticed the lines once on the bench a few days. I believe I had the power on first to the control head than I connected power to the radio than the data cable and noticed the lines. I believe I left the power on to the controlhead as I was swapping from one model radio to another model radio. I turned everything off disconnected all the cables than reconnected the power to the radio, than the data cable to the radio, and the controlhead. Then the power leads (red and yellow) to the controlhead then I turned on the controlhead and there were no lines.

I'll be programming some radios on the bench today and I keep an eye out.

 

[radiotweester]

Check what flex you have from the radio to the head. HKN6192?
Just curious because I have an HKN6208 flex and the screen does the same on start up.

 

[curtisdevault]

Check what flex you have from the radio to the head. HKN6192?
Just curious because I have an HKN6208 flex and the screen does the same on start up.

I have 3 O5 heads (only one shows the lines upon booting up) and they all have an HKN6191 flex cable. After I put everything back together I noticed that two of them were labeled REV B and the one that displays the lines is labeled REV C.

I'm going to swap the REV C cable out for the REV B and see what happens.

 

[curtisdevault]

Unfortunately swapping the REV C cable out for the REV B cable did not get rid the lines on the display at power on.