Home Forums General Discussion Technical Questions Tac 20 1083

Hi everyone. Got a Tac 20 that shutdown on a 1083
(bad recall of non voluntary memory). Any tips on this problem ?

Also after the 1083 on top of fault list is a 1122
(Slowdown before sensors)

Also I saw it with a 1068 after the 1083 another time it happened

Try a GET & then WRT in IMS and cycle power.
Also check 3V battery.
Try to reload SW.
If not of that works most likely defective 188e board.
The other other 2 faults are both related to jack resync. I would address the 1083 fault first.

This happened again a few times looks like defective 188e board . Does anyone have procedures on how to change the 188e board

Do you guys change Tac 20 cpu battery with power off? I have heard of people doing it both ways. But have heard changing it with power on can cause problems

Power off

Vertical Express Will not sell Tac 20 Lon 188e boards . That’s rough

Virginia controls will sell you an entire controller.... I cant stand rewarding companies not doing proper business with continued business.


Do you have a VE icon you can use the Job number from to order it for a VE car? That's assuming they'd sell it for an Icon. Are they out of the boards or just not selling them to anyone except TK? Come to think of it, I think the mechanic on the route next to mine mentioned he ordered a 188e board months ago and I don't recall him ever talking about going back to that job. We might still be trying to get one too. I'll have to ask him.

They are not selling them to anyone but local tke offices. All Lon configuration controllers

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virgina controls will sell me a controller that will be compatible with all the tke equipment, Door controller , fixtures ?

No, I don't think anyone sells anything directly compatible with the LON fixtures and door operator. I meant more if they are cutting off support, I would rather replace it with a non proprietary controller of your choice, chop that operator off and mount a MOVFR and an interface products selector and be done with it. Innovation makes direct replacement fixtures as does MAD I believe. Ive done a few mods like that. Or you could just do new buttons with the contact blocks with screw terminals. I mean at this point you are talking a MOD but unfortunately that's the position TK is putting the customer in. I know me personally if I was the customer I wouldn't want to spend a dime towards keeping the same control system and risk more support being lost in the future.

I was waiting to hear back from VE after their price list had a note that was N/A to 188E LON boards... Brutal !!

Mind you the Non Lon boards had potentially 6 month lead time so maybe thats why they aren't mentioning anything with the 188E w/ LON