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[Terry Hurrle]

I made an animated character and hooked it up to test it. I am getting nothing from the computer to the unit. I can play the sequence in the computer but unit is not responding. I tried testing the lights on the lor and nothing. When I got the unit I assigned a unit number and hooked up test light and it worked fine. Now I am getting nothing. Any one got a clue what to look for?

[Ed P]

When you plug in the controller and have it hooked up to computer, is the red light flashing or solid?

Are you sure your sequence controller ID is the same as that assigned to the controller hooked to your animated figure?

Can you control the controller using the Hardware utility with some test lights now?

These answers would be helpful to others to help you with this problem.

[Terry Hurrle]

When you plug in the controller and have it hooked up to computer, is the red light flashing or solid?

Solid

Are you sure your sequence controller ID is the same as that assigned to the controller hooked to your animated figure?

Yes they are all assigned to controller # 4

Can you control the controller using the Hardware utility with some test lights now?

No, I could when I first put the cords on it about 3 weeks ago but not now.

[Guest wbottomley]

Reset the controller and you should be good.

Resetting, disconnect from wall, remove jumper on the pins at the top right of the board, connect power for 10 seconds, disconnect, place jumper back on the correct pins, then reconnect power.

Something else, try a different cat5 cable.

[Terry Hurrle]

I got out another controller and hooked it up. I can test the lights but the sequence does not play. I had them all hooked to test lights and was able to play all my sequences a while back. The new software upgrade should not have any effect should it?

[Terry Hurrle]

I can test the circuits and the lights flash on one controller. If I have two daisy chained the second does nothing. I still can not get a sequence control the lights. When I first got the units I had three set up and they worked great.

[Guest wbottomley]

It's either a bad cat 5 cable or the channel config is not properly set up.

[shfr26]

Not to sound dunb, but do you have control lights checked?

[Terry Hurrle]

Yes I have tried that but that did not work either. I keep getting a com port error that I never got before. Control panel will not open.

[Guest wbottomley]

Until you get the correct comm port, it will not work.

Go to the hardware utility and find the correct one.

You must have move the usb cable to another port on the pc causing this error.

[Terry Hurrle]

Sometimes it is the simplest things that frustrate you. After backing up and starting over I noticed the hardware utility was on. Turned it off and it worked like a charm (almost). Had transferred the sequence from desk top to lap top and all the tracks were one line lower on the grid. Copy and pasted and had it fixed in a few minutes. Thanks for all the replies and help. Can you tell this is my first year.