hankp123 Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 My show stopped working, Music playing light just not working, things would come one for a few secs then off again, then 20 secs of a song worked then stopped. I looked at everything, I have 2 cat 5's plugged into my USB485b, 1/2 the time the red led in the controller would blink then it would be solid . When I unpluged one of the cat 5 from the usb485b, BOOM everything works that is on that side (17 controllers}. So I figure cat 5 bad, Changed it out,(cat 5) and same thing happens when I pluged it back it in. So I figure something is bad down the line, I disconnect all but one controller plug it in and same thing, show goes to crap, any ideas or what to try next ? Every thing was working fine up to two days ago, Even during the great Christmas light fight, I did notice some strange lights coming on 3 or 4 nights ago nothing to bad, lol I have over 340 channels, BAD USB 485B ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hankp123 Posted December 19, 2013 Author Share Posted December 19, 2013 ok everything seems to work with 2 of the controllers plugged in, can I have a bad controller make that happen ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiplorenzo Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 I know this is prolly a silly question, but you are not splitting after the 485 into 2 cat 5 cables are you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max-Paul Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 Thats a possibility hank. I would first try them one at a time. I suspect you are on the right track. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hankp123 Posted December 19, 2013 Author Share Posted December 19, 2013 It seems on of the controllers i just got back form repairs is giving me the problems, Not sure yet. I swaped it out 2 days ago with one that has a bad triac, so I took it out of the daisy chain (cat 5) and the rest of the show seems to be ok, well except for 2 windows(Red, green, white) my 5 of 20 high flying snowflakes and .......... That controller must be makeing a ton of noise in the cat5's to stop the whole show. wow that s a 1st for me in 8 years. Oh just found out they will rebroadcast our epoisode of the great christmas light fight this sunday : )Kip I know this is prolly a silly question, but you are not splitting after the 485 into 2 cat 5 cables are you?No Sir, but i wish i was able to do that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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