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solm96

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Linkers have been working for a month or so now. The other day they stopped. I connected one to my computer and when I am around 20' to the other I can find the device. I have changed cables and changed frequencies several times and still does not work. They are both located outside about 50' apart.

Any ideas anyone?

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Couriously, how high are they off the ground? Stay at least 5 feet high if you can

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Couriously, how high are they off the ground? Stay at least 5 feet high if you can

They are only a couple feet. But they have been working fine.

I elevated them to around 5 feet and still no go.

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I had the same issue.. turned out to be one of the RJ jacks on the ELL no longer worked. I just moved it over to the other jack and it worked just fine. Will have to troubleshoot that bad jack after the first of the year.

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Wait, so even with the "extra" linker, you now cannot get it to work with either of the two other linkers?

If thats the case, yhat sounds more like a config issue, as I'm struggling to believe you had two go bad simultaneously.

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Ok, so you have one spare. And have swapped out both of the active ELLs. What is common to all 3 ELLs? Computer and controllers. Wonder, when you have one ELL connected to the computer did you try the other ELL in both controllers? The ELLs are powered off of the controllers and a USB485b adapter. If the B controller was always used in these test and the B controller is only putting out 7VDC instead of the perscribed 9.6VDC your ELL is going to suffer in transmit power and that will effect your range. So, if you didnt change which controller is the ELL is attached to. You might have missed the problem.

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Wait, so even with the "extra" linker, you now cannot get it to work with either of the two other linkers?

If thats the case, yhat sounds more like a config issue, as I'm struggling to believe you had two go bad simultaneously.

I agree, not likely, but possible. Esp if there was a power surge or a weak EMP that only effected the 1st amp stage on a receiver.

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So maybe that is one linker with an issue. Easy to isolate. But I'd still do the common-sense easy stuff first, like checking each one's config, and then do some methodical troubleshooting. With all the shot gun troubleshooting and wild theories I see on this forum, my guess is, LOR gets a lot of equipment back that has nothing wrong with it, aka, operator error and misleading information.

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Now wait a min. I always thought that the term shotgun trouble shooting required the change out of multiple parts at the same time before powering back up to see if it works. Hence shotgun, equal multiple parts at once. Oh boy, I am sure that they get a good number of items back that work like they are supposed to. I know a vendor of lights that will no longer sell bulk spools of rope lights due to the fact that a good number of people dont know how to work with rope lights. I know that at one point I thought that something was wrong. Then had to stop moving and thinking. Then thought, why wont this work? I know that the pins have gone in and are touching the two wires, yet still not working. Do you have any idea what I done wrong? Yep, got to install the power connector at the right end of the rope to make it work. LED rope lights are polarity sensitive and when I swapped ends. Worked on the first try.

But we have people jumping in with both feed that have no trouble shooting skills. Have no idea what they are doing and then get mad and everything has to be everyone elses fault. And they wonder why when they come in here with a tud. Wonder why some of us have gotten a tud back with them.

Sorry solm96, I am not speaking of you. But responding to my buds comment. But could you speak to my comment about did you try your trouble shooting and swapping the controller used. I am trying to zero in on a common factor. Thanks

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