Denny Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 While working on my display this year, I keep thinking, wouldn't it be nice if ....... So, here are a couple suggestions that I would like to see the LOR elves work on.1. A simple, economical LOR board that could be used only for on and off functions. I have used so many channels this year to perform simple on and off functions. I am not familiar with DIO boards, maybe they can do this, but there might be a market out there for something from LOR just to do on/off functions. It would be less expensive than the comparable amount of X10 modules and more accurate as far as timing.2. How about something that would open a whole new arena? I am thinking of a board that would control pneumatics or even hydraulics (audio-animatronics :cool:). I know there are dedicated web sites to this, but to have something with built in safety features would open a lot of possibilities for new types of display items.Does anyone else have ideas or suggestions for Santa LOR and the elves? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniel Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 How about high power boards? 4 channels 10 amps each? (like ctb-16d, two inputs) Could be used for a big chunk of yard that does not need the detail of individual chanels.A display tester, a handheld device that can take the cat-5 and display the units on an LCD screen, and possibly a function do send comands to the controlles, (all on/off). This would replace the need to drag a laptop out into the yard to do last minuite trouble-shooting.--Daniel L Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Fischer Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 Denny wrote: While working on my display this year, I keep thinking, wouldn't it be nice if ....... So, here are a couple suggestions that I would like to see the LOR elves work on.1. A simple, economical LOR board that could be used only for on and off functions. I have used so many channels this year to perform simple on and off functions. I am not familiar with DIO boards, maybe they can do this, but there might be a market out there for something from LOR just to do on/off functions. It would be less expensive than the comparable amount of X10 modules and more accurate as far as timing.2. How about something that would open a whole new arena? I am thinking of a board that would control pneumatics or even hydraulics (audio-animatronics :cool:). I know there are dedicated web sites to this, but to have something with built in safety features would open a lot of possibilities for new types of display items.Does anyone else have ideas or suggestions for Santa LOR and the elves?From what I understand, dimming is really no more expensive to do than on/off. The hardware is basically the same, and the dimming is done in firmware. (I could be wrong, but this is what I understand).Some LOR boards can do servo control, and you could control other things with the DC boards or even standard LOR boards and proper wiring...-Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrat Posted November 30, 2007 Share Posted November 30, 2007 Denny wrote: 1. A simple, economical LOR board that could be used only for on and off functions. I have used so many channels this year to perform simple on and off functions. I am not familiar with DIO boards, maybe they can do this, I use a 48 chan. DIO board for this on-off function. 40 channels AC and 8 DC. I had to build my own interface and triac (SSR) circuits. I save my LOR channels for ones that need dim and shimmer effects.An ethernet interface would be nice. Each has it's own IP and connect to a hub rather than all in series as 485. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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