I've only just gotten into automation, so please bear with me. Just picked up a LR mate 200i off ebay in "guaranteed working condition", but I'm already running into issues. I wired it into the 480v power at work and fired it up. Controller booted and the pendant was functioning, all seemed well. Get a few alarms about dead batteries. Try to jog but I get an alarm that the system is in error. So i reset and try again. Same problem. Assuming it was the dead batteries causing the issues I powered down and replaced them (with 3v alkaline batteries I made by joining 2 AA's.) I go to restart and the controller powers up all lights are green, but the teach pendant stopped working. The screen was completely blank and the LED's were off. Anyone have and ideas as to why the pendant would stop working after a shutdown? Also would the batteries being dead be what was preventing me to jog in the first place?
Full system is an LR MATE 200i w/ an R-J2 Mate controller.
TL;DR Wouldn't jog, thought it was dead encoder batteries. Power down, replace and restart, now the controller starts but the teach pendant is dead.