Experimenting today. Dater was an issue. Kept showing Dec 2, 2015. Tried to reset to Dec 13, 2015. Couldn't, then I played around the the dates and rechecked and realized that you need to program the day first, then the month. In other words I was trying 02-13-2015 when it accepted 13-02-2015. Who ever wrote the manual was not an American, either European or Chinese.
Since my controller is a 4 stage and will equalize on the 28th of the month, I advanced the date to 28-02-2015 and low and behold it went into equalization mode.
I did turn on manual mode and everything seems to be working fine now. voltage is at 14.8v at controller for equalization currently with 0.6amps. I let it run like that for a few minutes then switched back to normal boost by changing the date back to today's date. So everything is working great and I'm a happy camper!
Thanks to all especially 64thunderbolt, good luck with yours.