James Shelby Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 This controller is 7 of 9 and 1-6 and 8-9 work fine. I noticed no matter what the dip switch setting you have the card on it will not come up in HU. So I plugged it in by itself the address never changes so I forced it in the HU and it worked until you run the show. All channels are crossed with each other. Today I had time to change the card with a new one and same problem, can't find it in HU and all 16 channels are crossed up. Sounds like a comm problem but all other controllers work great. Please help soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfuller8400 Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 The address is set by the two dials on the card, so I'm a little surprised that you could change it via the HU (and I wouldn't expect it to retain it's settings after being powered off/on). Remember that the dial settings are in decimal while the controller address is in Hex (so a dial setting of 10 is a controller address of 0A). Not sure if this helps at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Shelby Posted December 4, 2017 Author Share Posted December 4, 2017 This is my 11th season with LOR. With this controller, number 7 of 9, in the mix with the other 8 controllers it can not be found. I pulled it out, pulled it directly into the computer and it can be found but with a different address than the two dials on the card. Using the hardware utility I can change the address and now find all nine controllers in that network but all 16 channels misfire and act confused. The other 8 controllers work as expected. The big problem is when I pulled that card out and replaced it, the second controller acts the same way. My next move to replace it with a 16 channel PC controller and see if that will get me through the season. Makes me go hummmmmmmm. Could the ISO dongle be causing a problem, don't think so because the other 8 controllers work fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyski Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 Just a couple of thoughts Have you tried to connect controller 6 to controller 8 and look at the network with hardware utility? There might be a comm port issue on controller 6. If there is a bad port you can make it the last controller in the daisy chain since it will not need to pass data out. Also, place controller 7 in a different place in the daisy chain and test. I agree with jfuller8400 about setting the controller ID with Hardware utility. I do not think that it will result in a permanent change. Have you tried to reset the controller? Power off/ set ID to 00 / power on for 15 sec or so/ power off/ set desired ID/ test I have a controller where the unit ID is stuck on 05. Nothing that I tried would change it. I just changed the controller ID in my sequences to match the stuck 05. Working fine ever since. Hope this helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Shelby Posted December 5, 2017 Author Share Posted December 5, 2017 I've tried everything. But I think as do you the problem could be somewhere else but that is crazy with all the other cards working fine. I took a 16 channel CTB and put snubbers on it and it's working perfect now. If it makes it to the end of the year I will tear into it more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Benson Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Follow the reset process for the controller, then set the dials to the address you want. One time i managed to use the hardware utility to change the address of one of those controllers by accident. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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