Can someone please tell me what this is?

[Jel]

Hi one of my commercial clients has just sent me a photo of this?
They sent the following message
"Please see attached image.
All we know is it keeps turning itself off.."

 

[richy3333]

Why is it you say electrician and people hear magician (complete with crystal balls)?!

 

[Marie-Claire]

I'd assume this may be an air conditioning controller?

 

[davesparks]

My guess would be the control panel for a dimmer


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

 

[Mark42]

I reckon Adam W has it bang-on. It's an old-skool, first-gen lighting scene controller. I saw a load of these a few years back in the Far East. There will be a programmable control unit somewhere, connected to this unit by CAT5 or Belden cable, and to which all the lighting loads are connected. (Although some are stand-alone units - I still have one such four-channel model at home in the UK.)

Check out Lutron, Futronix or Elan for similar products. But I don't think it's from any of those manufacturers. Almost certainly obsolete technology, probably best junked.

Programming is usually via a serial RS485 connection to a laptop. A complete bugger to fault-find if you don't work on that model everyday. I once wasted weeks with similar system.

Good luck, Sir: you have my sympathy!

ps. If there was a beer on it, my guess would be that the five left-hand switches are programmable as either individual scenes (ie preset levels for all the lighting channels) or individual lighting circuit selectors, all dimmed by the up/down buttons; and the bigger right-hand button is a master on/off.

The black window is either an IR receiver, or a portal to the Eye of Sauron.