What's the most amateurish mistake you'll admit to?

[Sctiger]

I'll go first....my comeback season after a year off has been nothing short of troublesome. (Good thing I'm not a drinking man!) From a loss of a controller, to bad weather, to careless mistakes..you name it, it's probably happened.

When I finally got the show up and going (late of course), I kept noticing one prop was on when it shouldn't be. In this case, a flood light for the nativity. Not a terrible thing but it suddenly lighting up during Fat Bottomed Girls might would prove a bit problematic. I physically traced the cord back to the controller several times, ensuring it was plugged into port "6". I concluded that it had to be a prop assignment issue since I had to merge 3 A/C controllers down to 2. Nope. Everything checked out. Then last night, a revelation struck as I was standing outside. I traced the cord back to the controller and there it was. I was plugged into the "upside down" 6.  Yes. I was plugged into port 9 instead! 😂🤣 

Merry Christmas fellows! I hope your lighting season is a great one full of great memories.

[Mr. P]

I keep forgetting to start the Control Panel so the Com Listener starts. Then my lights don't work and I spend two hours trying to figure out why and get angry, then I remember the Control Panel and get angry at myself. I have done it several times.

[k6ccc]

25 minutes ago, Mr. P said:

I keep forgetting to start the Control Panel so the Com Listener starts.

Mr. P, Ya know there is a checkbox to "Launch at startup", right??

 

[Mr. P]

Checkbox? Where? Why haven't I seen this in all these years?

[Mr. P]

Another situation, I go outside and power everything on and low and behold a few strings of lights come on on some of my E1.31 controllers. Hmmm, why did those come on? AAHH, open the Control Panel and the lights go out, brain fart.

[k6ccc]

12 minutes ago, Mr. P said:

Checkbox? Where? Why haven't I seen this in all these years?

Right click on LOR light bulb in system tray > 4th item from the bottom.

 

[k6ccc]

@Mr. P  Here - in case my description did not make sense.

http://www.newburghlights.org/images/Startup.png

[Glenside Lights]

Checked my Router. DHCP range was set to 10.0.0.2-253. I had 4 E1.31 device to name, so the first was set to 10.0.0.254. I rebooted it and was happy to see it pop up in the browser. So on to the next! 10.0.0.255 It took me 3 days to realize what I’d done wrong. Then another day before I remembered how to get a default page up so I could correct it. Needless to say, the DHCP range is a little bit less now to make room for static IPs. Happy times! ;-)

[jfuller8400]

I've got a whole section on my YouTube channel dedicated to lessons that I've learned the hard way.