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Excuse my ignorance if I just havnt looked at the softwarehardware close enough yet, but ...

Is there a way to do a chase or growing effect with just regular lights and an LOR controller?

Looking for not quit the ramp up effect where all the lights in the string go from 0-100 power, but like light 1 goes from 0-100 and then when light 1 gets to 10% light 2 starts going from 1-100 then then light 1 gets to 20% and light 2 is at 10% light 3 starts to go from 0-100..

Or just your regular chasing lights...I figured I could bind 3 strings together and try to time them just right so they look like they are chasing, but im not so interested in tieing up 3+ channels to get this effect.

Is there a featureeffect that will do this or a DIY board I can buy just a regular set of lights and cut the wire and connect to to get these effects?

Thanks

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If you are wanting to control individual lights in a string, then No, LOR cannot do this.

You would have to have each individual light hooked to a separate channel...THEN LOR could do that.

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:D Well I guess that is a yes and no...

I guess what I am asking is ...how can you buy a string of chasing lights, but you cant make a string of chasing lights controlled by LOR?



Light the battery operated chasing lights...I dont really want to control each light...I just want the effect. Kind like when you put that special red tipped buld in your normal string of lights and now they flicker and flash....
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Let's say you buy a string of lights that has the small effects controller attached to it. (The ones where you can chose the chase effect, etc.) Assuming those will 'remember' what you have configured them for when they lose power, then you could hook them up to a LOR channel.

You'd want to be very sure and not fade the channel up/down, as that would affect the amount of power going to the strand of lights. Since it has it's own small controller built in, it's expecting full power.

At the point in your song where you want them to come on, you'd program them to come "on". The only drawback might be how long they take to go from static to their pre-programmed chance. I know some years ago they had a warm up period before they started (the small controllers, not LOR.)

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What you need is a multi-circuit string...meaning the lights next to each other are on different channels. You can do what you want this way.

Several ways to approach this...decide on the number of channels you want ( I did 5 channels) and either make your strings or purchase custom made strings with the spacing you need.

I made my strings, if you would like the how to for this PM me with your email address and I will send it out to anyone that wants it.

Anthony

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