Linda Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 Is there a limit to how many controllers can be daisy chained together off the main controller? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 According the specifications, about 240. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linda Posted June 6, 2011 Author Share Posted June 6, 2011 OK......Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimswinder Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 Don wrote: According the specifications, about 240.I found this on their website:The Light-O-Rama ShowTime Pro or ShowTime PC controllers include special effects such as simple on/off, intensities, smooth fading, twinkling, shimmering. Up to 200 controllers (each handling 16 unique electrical circuits) can be daisy chained on the LOR network giving you the ability to control over 3,200 channels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linda Posted June 6, 2011 Author Share Posted June 6, 2011 Thanks Jim. I guess I should have looked there before asking the question. :? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimswinder Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 Linda wrote: Thanks Jim. I guess I should have looked there before asking the question. :?lol...sometimes it's easier and quicker just to ask... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenL_MCSE Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 And besides it gave us something to read/discuss - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linda Posted June 6, 2011 Author Share Posted June 6, 2011 Cool! I'll try to come up with another stupid question. Oh, I forgot. There are no stupid questions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimswinder Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 Linda wrote: Cool! I'll try to come up with another stupid question. Oh, I forgot. There are no stupid questions. if it weren't for stupid questions I would not be able to provide my stupid answers!!!!!You don't want to be the one responsible for putting me out of a job now do you???? EDIT:Oh wait...I guess I don't NEED stupid questions...just any ol' general question...right George? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linda Posted June 6, 2011 Author Share Posted June 6, 2011 Heavens no...........I love ALL your "stupid" answers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimswinder Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 Linda wrote: Heavens no...........I love ALL your "stupid" answers!ahhhhh....*blush* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surfing4Dough Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 jimswinder wrote: Don wrote: According the specifications, about 240.I found this on their website:The Light-O-Rama ShowTime Pro or ShowTime PC controllers include special effects such as simple on/off, intensities, smooth fading, twinkling, shimmering. Up to 200 controllers (each handling 16 unique electrical circuits) can be daisy chained on the LOR network giving you the ability to control over 3,200 channelsData sheets and manuals specifically say:"Up to 240 controllers (3,840 channels) in a network"http://www.lightorama.com/PDF/LOR160xW.pdfhttp://www.lightorama.com/PDF/CTB16PCv1.pdfand confirmed in the Hardware utility as shown here: Attached files Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimswinder Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Surfing4Dough wrote: jimswinder wrote: Don wrote: According the specifications, about 240.I found this on their website:The Light-O-Rama ShowTime Pro or ShowTime PC controllers include special effects such as simple on/off, intensities, smooth fading, twinkling, shimmering. Up to 200 controllers (each handling 16 unique electrical circuits) can be daisy chained on the LOR network giving you the ability to control over 3,200 channelsData sheets and manuals specifically say:"Up to 240 controllers (3,840 channels) in a network"http://www.lightorama.com/PDF/LOR160xW.pdfhttp://www.lightorama.com/PDF/CTB16PCv1.pdfand confirmed in the Hardware utility as shown here:guess they need to fix one or the other so they match... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Website is new. Specs in the documentation haven't' changed.If it's me, I change the website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimswinder Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Don wrote: Website is new. Specs in the documentation haven't' changed.If it's me, I change the website.actually, you posted what I was looking for!!! (about the networks)"Up to 240 controllers (3,840 channels) in a network"and can't LOR handle 16 networks? (not sure about that number though)so, wouldn't that be over 3000 controllers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian.t.lowery Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 3,840 controllers actually. But what kind of psychotic person would want that many.....oh, yeah...us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulXmas Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 brian.t.lowery wrote: 3,840 controllers actually. But what kind of psychotic person would want that many.....oh, yeah...us3840 controllers 61440 channelsNow that would be AWSOME! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Let's see we have 240 controllers X 16 channels for 3,840 channels, then we have 16 networks with 240 controllers on each for a total of 3,840 controllers and then each controller, again with 16 channels for a whopping total of 61,440 channels. (if I've calculated everything correctly).So who would be up for the challenge to sequence 61,440 channels?:shock:I just know it's bad enough doing 48 to 80! And maybe I might be at 160 channels someday, but 61,440???? I'll leave that up to the the real die hard sequencers here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimswinder Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 jimswinder wrote: Don wrote: Website is new. Specs in the documentation haven't' changed.If it's me, I change the website.actually, you posted what I was looking for!!! (about the networks)"Up to 240 controllers (3,840 channels) in a network"and can't LOR handle 16 networks? (not sure about that number though)so, wouldn't that be over 3000 controllers?found this post from Dan himself...looks like a max of 4 networks (don't know where I came up with 16)That is correct. With S2 you have 4 networks and each can have 240 controllers so you can have up to 15,360 channels. We have never tested this many channels. The most I know of in the real world is 1,300 channels with S2 and about 900 channels with LOR I. With S2 I think a real world display would be limited to about 4000 channels. This is the thread the quote came from:http://forums.lightorama.com/view_topic.php?id=16237&forum_id=25&highlight=networks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Jones Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 I'd have to say there is a limit - i found it once. but with all of the updates and new hardware, I might not find it again for some time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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