Bartlettguy67 Posted May 2, 2011 Posted May 2, 2011 I'm looking at getting a pair of ELL for my display this coming Christmas. My PC is located in the back office and the controllers are on the fence right off the office outside. I don't have aluminum siding on my house, so that would not be an issue. Will the tranmitters transmit through wooden walls without any issue?
Frank Picozzi Posted May 2, 2011 Posted May 2, 2011 They absolutely will. I've even used them in my basement with no problems.
Mark Showalter Posted May 2, 2011 Posted May 2, 2011 Bartlettguy67 wrote:I'm looking at getting a pair of ELL for my display this coming Christmas. My PC is located in the back office and the controllers are on the fence right off the office outside. I don't have aluminum siding on my house, so that would not be an issue. Will the tranmitters transmit through wooden walls without any issue?I used a pair of ELL's for my display last year. Like you, my office was where the signal transmitted from to the control boxes outside. I had no issues at all. The ELL worked as promised. I'll be using them again this year. It sure beat drilling holes or leaving a window cracked for the cable run.
Bartlettguy67 Posted May 2, 2011 Author Posted May 2, 2011 Thanks for the information. Last year was my first animated display, and I ran the cat 5 cable out one of the back windows. Thanks for the info. From what I hear, its worth the purchase.
Greg Young Posted May 3, 2011 Posted May 3, 2011 I have used 3 ELLs for a few years now without any issues, and highly recommend them.The only thing to be aware of is that if you have a very large network, and sequence music using small time intervals, etc (ie .02, or .05 seconds), and use lots of fades, twinkles, etc - in other words where you run a display with a lot of network activity, you may come up against the speed limitation ELLs have, (if memory serves me 56K or so, but as it's been a few years since I read the manuals don't quote me), which you won't with direct wire.I feed my main system directly with CT5 cable, and use my first ELL after my 7th controller to connect with the other 2 ELLs and their controllers. I have never encountered any speed limitation issues.Greg
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