Guest wbottomley Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 Has anyone ever had weird hardware problems? I have all of my controllers connected and my lights are blinking in reverse.Anyone know of a solution to correcting this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Simmons Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 I think if you unplug the controllers, turn the plugs over, and then plug them back in they will be just fine. Must be the defective controllers you got from Robin... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Hamilton Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 Gee William, you're one of the smartest guys on here, so if you can't figure it out, the rest of us are doomed Are you playing with us? :cool:I haven't heard of this problem before, so I am tgrying to visualize it. When you mean "blinking in reverse", so you mean that lights are on when they are supposed to be off (and vice versa) ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGabriel Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Get the squirrel to run in the other direction on the wheel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Ancona Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Stand on your head and watch the show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rwertz Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 It sounds like you decorated your house backwards. Take everything down and start over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 I've got a weird issue as well. During my OFF HOURS time I have a single track sequence, no lights on in any of them, yet controller one is lighting one item which is on Channel 2 (unit 01.2) And the config file is just one channel, one track and is set as unit 01.1 (Controller 1 Channel 1), there are no other tracks, no other channels in this config file. The sequence is completely empty! When I run the sequence in the SE, no lights turn on, only when operating off the SD card in the DC-MP3 Showtime Director.And I just checked every single OFF-HOURS sequence and none have anything, anywhere in any of the blocks that would turn on a light and all are set on Controller 1 / Channel 1.Yet, Channel 2 is and has turned on during the time my off-hours music is playing, and I can find no reason why it would be on at all! The items are incandescent lights.And yes, Controller 1, Channel 2 works just fine during showtime as it's supposed to. This one has me puzzled!BTW: I even tried flipping the plug that's plugged into the controller. Didn't make a difference. And I even went through and copied a blank and pasted the blanks all the way to the end of the sequence in every one of them to be sure no lights would turn on. But this one channel keeps turning on for some oddball reason! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Orville wrote: yet controller one is lighting one item which is on Channel 2 (unit 01.2) I had something like this happen, and it turned out to be noise on the network. (It was likely caused by running the power and network wires through the same conduit.)The solution was to properly terminate the LOR network with a 120Ω resistor on each end. Read this topic to see how I made the terminators. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Funny thing is Stephen, it has worked ALL MONTH long without doing this, it just started today, Halloween! Talk about strange!The cables and wires are not in a conduit, they go through a styrofoam wrapping that goes around plumbing pipe that I poked a hole through the sides, 2 seperate holes where the cables and single power wire that feeds my GFCI outlet run out the window to the controllers.Just thought it odd, that today of all days, Halloween, that this would just now start, again, when it's worked without any issues from 10/1 through 10/30 without doing this! And nothing's been moved or changed in the CAT5 or Power cable! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Hamilton Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 I know a good LOR minister who can perform an exorcism for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmilkie Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 reverse all your lights Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Don Gillespie Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 see------ if your weather forcasts where better this wouldn't happen to you LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimswinder Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 wbottomley wrote: Has anyone ever had weird hardware problems? I have all of my controllers connected and my lights are blinking in reverse.Anyone know of a solution to correcting this?Do you have it it "R" instead of "D"??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caleb Linburg Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Someone on another fourm said if you turn it upside down it, it will work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rescue_653 Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Are you sure that all of your units are daisy chained correctly and not in the wrong order......gee's I thought you knew enough not to wire them in the wrong order. I thought it was simple enough to know that reveresed daisy chain makes reveresed lights you have to daisy chain in order or the lights will go backwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBullard Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 William,I still biteing my tounge, resisting the urge to give you my opinion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rescue_653 Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 JBullard wrote: William,I still biteing my tounge, resisting the urge to give you my opinion Do it John do it, I mean any yahoo who cant wire his display correctly needs to find a new hobby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Don Gillespie Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 rescue_653 wrote: JBullard wrote: William,I still biteing my tounge, resisting the urge to give you my opinion Do it John do it, I mean any yahoo who cant wire his display correctly needs to find a new hobby I am with you just because he can predict the weather and be right 50% of the time you think a guy could wire his display properly now the mega trees are all going to be going in the wrong direction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wbottomley Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Got it working right tonight. There's a little black switch on the back of the version 1 16d's. I flipped it in the opposite direction and they started working right.Thanks for the help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Benedict Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 What led you to find that switch? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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