spomalley Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 I imagine the reason they would be slow to respond is because of the remote control module. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starzen Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 yes the strips are good but the control module starts up slowly. in order to run these from LOR i use a LOR DC controller. that will allow you to control the color as well. You can buy the strips without the controller quite a bit cheaperMike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowepg Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 yes the strips are good but the control module starts up slowly. in order to run these from LOR i use a LOR DC controller. that will allow you to control the color as well. You can buy the strips without the controller quite a bit cheaperMikeSo I found the LOR DC controlled on the website.... Couple more newbie questions:1 does each channel on the DC control need a channel on the LOR CTB16-PC controller?2. How do your actually control the color in the software? I pulled up the sequence editor and didn't see any choices that looked like they might work to vary DC voltage (or however you actually create the colors)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max-Paul Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 The DC controller is a stand alone controller just like the CTB16-PC. The DC controller talks with the PC just like the AC controller does. Difference is that you will need a 12VDC power supply. And this power supply, supplies power to the controller so it will work, and at the same time supply power for the LED strips.You need to read and learn more about doing RGB in the sequence editor. I have only played with this once a few months back. But I believe you make a channel and then in one of the drop downs or right clicking that channel you tell it, you want it to be a RGB channel. Anyway do some research in the help files on RGB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Santas Helper Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 The DC controller is a stand alone controller just like the CTB16-PC. The DC controller talks with the PC just like the AC controller does. Difference is that you will need a 12VDC power supply. And this power supply, supplies power to the controller so it will work, and at the same time supply power for the LED strips.You need to read and learn more about doing RGB in the sequence editor. I have only played with this once a few months back. But I believe you make a channel and then in one of the drop downs or right clicking that channel you tell it, you want it to be a RGB channel. Anyway do some research in the help files on RGB.MP is right on the controller and power issue.On the sequencing issue, you treat it like a normal strand of lights per color.You have three colors, R G & B. So you treat each color of the RGB as independent light strands. Nothing changes with RGB when it comes to sequencing. Fades up or down, twinkle, shimmer... they all work the same as regular light strings. Think of it as three seperate light strands on one strip.In my experience, if you want white from the three colors, power them all to 100% on. At least that's what I do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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