Guest guest Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 OK I already searched here and LOR WIKI for this problem and no luck. Right now I have my valentines day display up. It consists about 3500 lights with 9 spot lights up against the house. I have two LOR1602W units. I am using 31 out of 32 channels. Well on saturday I was out and supposedly some of the lights went on during the day. So when my mom told me I didn't believe her. she said she flipped the switches inside, (just in case there was an emergancy, god forbid) Anyway today I wake up to flood lights flashing into my bedroom window. So I walked outside to see what was lighting up and seeing if it was the same unit, and it was. Everything on the second unit was doing a twinkle effect, so I unplugged the board to find the problem which wasn't found. So what I am trying to figure out is what is making the second unit turn on at various times and creating a twinkle effect. Any help would be great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 Do you have an old sequence loaded into the controller?Is it possible, if connected to a computer, that you have a rouge schedule set up you forgot about?Only two ideas I have this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 I had a problem where an animated sequence got loaded into a show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 Well Don, it is connected to the computer, but there is not show scheduled to turn on.... plus it is comming on at random times...and Dale, its not really a sequence.... it seems just like a random blinking on and off similar to a twinkle ONLY on the second unit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 Joe,Have you tried resetting your controller? If I remember correctly, unplugging it, setting the controller numbers to 00 and then back to the controller number you originally had it set to. What type of lights are you using?Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 Thats what i am going to do (reset the controller) I am using mostly mini lights. But on that same unit i have some reg. flood lights and some rope light Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 Joe Petrowski wrote: Thats what i am going to do (reset the controller) I am using mostly mini lights. But on that same unit i have some reg. flood lights and some rope lightGood luck Joe and let us know either way if it fixes it or not. And as for the lights, I was just curious.Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 Santas Helper wrote: Joe,Have you tried resetting your controller? If I remember correctly, unplugging it, setting the controller numbers to 00, plug in for 10 seconds, unplug and then back to the controller number you originally had it set to. What type of lights are you using?TomTom thought I would just add the little procedure in bold, it is necessary to do a reset.Joe, I have controllers do this periodically, Here in the Northwest I blame it on moisture and the very poor enclosure and mountings that I use. Dan builds them, I make every attempt to destroy them. I believe the reset will solve your problems, and do it on both controllers. This year the lights started up 2 weeks after we shut down. The controller that was wet caused the problem but the effect was seen of other controllers wired and wirelessly connected to the unruly unit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 Ok i just reset both of them.. hopfully this should would, I will let you know if it occurs again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 Bill Foley wrote: Tom thought I would just add the little procedure in bold, it is necessary to do a reset.Thanks Bill,I need a little memory tug every now and then.Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 I had a similar problem this season and it turned out to be a bad phone cord I had connected between two of the boxes so if the problem isn't fixed might be something to try.Duane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 Overeazy, that makes sense because I am using a phone cable, however since i reset the board i have not had a problem, even though i only reset i yesterday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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