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Light repair

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Considering how much searching I had to do to stumble across this guy and the seeming absence of places repairing lights this post might be sticky worthy. Anyway, my kessil ap700 had been acting up for several months at least. After a power outage it would turn back on but would not connect and resume its' schedule. I would have to go into the app and refresh it to restore following the schedule. The problem got worse and worse (we had several outages), to the point it would not refresh and I would have to tediously totally restart the light and reenter the entire program. Lots of searching led me to believe it's internal wifi dongle was dead. I'm at kind of at a meh point in the hobby so I had no intention of buying a new expensive light. Extensive googling gave zero results of anyone that would repair it. Then a miracle happened. A thread about a problem light on reef2reef had a post mentioning Fix Reef - FixReef – Reef Electronics Repair Service. He's one of us. He's a reefer and electronic hobbyist who does repairs on the side out of his house. Very reasonable cost and can fix most any issue on all the high end brands. Great communication and very easy to follow process. He had my light repaired and back to me in less then a week. Light is back to as new functionality. To say I'm happy would be an understatement.
 

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did you try contacting kessil? they may be able to do something
 

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did you try contacting kessil? they may be able to do something
I did. They told me it’s too old and parts are no longer available. The light is only one generation old ☹️. They offered a discount on a new light, but did not say how much of a discount. Reef fix proved them wrong, and for a very reasonable price.
 
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