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PerryH

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Hoping someone that has been around LOR longer than I have can confirm my thinking. I have a 16 channel LOR controller. If I want to add DMX control I can connect an iDMX1000 via CAT5 to my 16 channel controller. If I want to add a Cosmic Color Ribbon I can connect it to my 16 channel controller via CAT5. So, with 1 - 16 channel controller I could use a CAT5 cable to run the CCR(s) and daisy chain the iDMX1000?

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Ah yes, but the issue is with all the money you saved on controllers, you will some how be sucked into the LOR vortex, and join the dark side, and just put all that saved money, back into your display with something else, really cool, but something else that will find a use in your display...

That is LOR law!

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paulanator wrote:

All together now, HI NEIL!

Well, I guess I will tell you about myself. At first it was just throwing strings of lights up, you know. Then, in early 2007 a co-worker invited me to her house to meet her husband in Land O Lakes FL. (actual LORaholic by the way).

He asked if I wanted to see something cool, so out to the shed we went. I was amazed at all these little circuit board things, but I wasn't that interested until he showed me what they could do.

I thought I would try one, you know, just to be polite. It wasn't long before I was ordering a second, then a third, fourth, etc. Of course it was not just the controllers. I had to have the condiments as well. After all it is not really a martini without the olive right? First came the extension cord wire, then the vampire plugs, the C7 sockets.

Pretty soon plain old incandescents weren't good enough. I was borrowing money from loan sharks for LED's and CCR. You would think the first time my knee caps accidentally dislocated I would stop, but nooooooooooooo.

All the while I was ordering more controllers, strobes, upgrading my electrical service. It was not uncommon for the neighbors to drive by and see me in the garage on my usual bar stool passed out in the middle of a sequence or holding a lit soldering torch.

Not even last year when my wife tried intervention did that help. I was sleeping off one of my usual sequencing binges when all of a sudden I was being dragged into a van. Next thing I knew I was in a compound in Utah surrounded by people telling me the loved me. Luckily a poorly attached screen on a window was my free ticket out. I hopped a train and got back to Florida.

I have told my friends and family that it worked, but I think they will figure it out come December.

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ONLY IN AMERICA COULD SOMETHING THIS ADDICTING AND FUN BE LEGAL. God Bless the USA.
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nmonkman wrote:

paulanator wrote:
All together now, HI NEIL!

Well, I guess I will tell you about myself. At first it was just throwing strings of lights up, you know. Then, in early 2007 a co-worker invited me to her house to meet her husband in Land O Lakes FL. (actual LORaholic by the way).

He asked if I wanted to see something cool, so out to the shed we went. I was amazed at all these little circuit board things, but I wasn't that interested until he showed me what they could do.

I thought I would try one, you know, just to be polite. It wasn't long before I was ordering a second, then a third, fourth, etc. Of course it was not just the controllers. I had to have the condiments as well. After all it is not really a martini without the olive right? First came the extension cord wire, then the vampire plugs, the C7 sockets.

Pretty soon plain old incandescents weren't good enough. I was borrowing money from loan sharks for LED's and CCR. You would think the first time my knee caps accidentally dislocated I would stop, but nooooooooooooo.

All the while I was ordering more controllers, strobes, upgrading my electrical service. It was not uncommon for the neighbors to drive by and see me in the garage on my usual bar stool passed out in the middle of a sequence or holding a lit soldering torch.

Not even last year when my wife tried intervention did that help. I was sleeping off one of my usual sequencing binges when all of a sudden I was being dragged into a van. Next thing I knew I was in a compound in Utah surrounded by people telling me the loved me. Luckily a poorly attached screen on a window was my free ticket out. I hopped a train and got back to Florida.

I have told my friends and family that it worked, but I think they will figure it out come December.

_____________________________________________________

ONLY IN AMERICA COULD SOMETHING THIS ADDICTING AND FUN BE LEGAL. God Bless the USA.
roflmao!! I can relate and i am only getting started. I rented an extra office in my office building and hauled everything up there. have created a miniature version of the mega-tree, mini tree frames are all over, and i recently upgraded my 32"LCD in my business office to a 42" so the 32" makes a real neat monitor for sequencing. Anyone that has had the misfortune to stick there head in that office have said "WTF" and left confused. The only other disturbing scene is the two 20,000cfm fog machines still in the box next to my desk in my business office. I get those looks that say "we really don't want to know".
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nmonkman wrote:

paulanator wrote:
All together now, HI NEIL!

Well, I guess I will tell you about myself. At first it was just throwing strings of lights up, you know. Then, in early 2007 a co-worker invited me to her house to meet her husband in Land O Lakes FL. (actual LORaholic by the way).

He asked if I wanted to see something cool, so out to the shed we went. I was amazed at all these little circuit board things, but I wasn't that interested until he showed me what they could do.

I thought I would try one, you know, just to be polite. It wasn't long before I was ordering a second, then a third, fourth, etc. Of course it was not just the controllers. I had to have the condiments as well. After all it is not really a martini without the olive right? First came the extension cord wire, then the vampire plugs, the C7 sockets.

Pretty soon plain old incandescents weren't good enough. I was borrowing money from loan sharks for LED's and CCR. You would think the first time my knee caps accidentally dislocated I would stop, but nooooooooooooo.

All the while I was ordering more controllers, strobes, upgrading my electrical service. It was not uncommon for the neighbors to drive by and see me in the garage on my usual bar stool passed out in the middle of a sequence or holding a lit soldering torch.

Not even last year when my wife tried intervention did that help. I was sleeping off one of my usual sequencing binges when all of a sudden I was being dragged into a van. Next thing I knew I was in a compound in Utah surrounded by people telling me the loved me. Luckily a poorly attached screen on a window was my free ticket out. I hopped a train and got back to Florida.

I have told my friends and family that it worked, but I think they will figure it out come December.

_____________________________________________________

ONLY IN AMERICA COULD SOMETHING THIS ADDICTING AND FUN BE LEGAL. God Bless the USA.

Ohh crap! This sounds just like me! Quick, I need another fix of controllers!
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The first step is admitting you have a problem !! Glad i don't:shock:

Thinking of thirteen steppin' my LOR1602W with my CCR when it comes in Wed...Sure hope it doesn't get jelous!!!!!;)

I've already changed it's unit ID to four and stepped up the CCR to ID 1!!!!

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