joseph1701 Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 I purchased a PC-CTB16PC-Complete during the sale this year. Attached all of the wires and tested the unit. It worked great, put up my lights and have had it running for 5 nights with no problem. Then tonight The unit wasn't running the lights (the music was playing but no lights). I rebooted the computer and still nothing. I tested the Fuses in the LOR unit and they read as fine. Plug everything back in and ran the Hardware utility and it does not detect the LOR unit. Ran auto configure and nothing. The Led On the LOR Controller board is Flashing steadily (2 flashes per second). Tried another computer thinking that might be the issue. still the same problem. Tried a different Cat 5e cable still won't find the board, and then tried both cords in the 2nd R45 jack still nothing. Looked on the web site and reset the LOR Controller (Pulled the jumper powered it up powered it down and re installed the jumper) Still no luck getting it back up.When I run Auto Configure It says there is no LOR Controller Connected (Which I have checked several times)On the other side of things Most of my lights are new LED's as are most of my extension Cords. But I went and tested them with a regular plug any way and found no issues that could have caused this to happen so I am now at a loss to figure out what to do next. I am not overly handy with a soldering Iron which is why I ordered the completed card in enclosure...Sorry for the long post just want to make sure I covered every thing I tried already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmoore60 Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 Since you say that the LED is flashing the controller is at least getting power on the right side (9-16) of the board. Your problem has to be communications between the computer and the controller. What adapter are you using? Sounds to me like your adapter may have died or has some other issue.Chuck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joseph1701 Posted December 4, 2008 Author Share Posted December 4, 2008 I am using the SC485-RJ45 Serial Adapter and I ma using the 100 foot cable. When I tested it with another cat 5 cable that one was 10 feet long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmoore60 Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 Joseph,Is this bad controller you only controller?the SC485 gets powered from the first board on the LOR network. This is why the manual says to keep this cable to 100 feet or less when using this adapter. Longer run will cause to much voltage loss and not be reliable.Chuck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joseph1701 Posted December 4, 2008 Author Share Posted December 4, 2008 Yes it is my only controller. I edited my 2nd post to say that I was using the 100 foot cable, but I think you replyed while I was editing . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmoore60 Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 I now suggest you contact support@lightorama.com or call them and seek addition directions. Seems to me like your communications is hosed......Chuck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joseph1701 Posted December 4, 2008 Author Share Posted December 4, 2008 Thanks for the help Chuck. I'll get a hold of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Douglas Shields Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 I also lost all communication between controllers and computer. The show was working fine and I can not refresh and find the controllers. I am using CTB16D's. Any ideas? Thanks Doug I forgot to say I checked all the comm cables and made sure to power is on all controllers. I even replaced the first controller in which is about 80 feet from the controller. I am using a usb 485 connector. Again thanks for any help guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joseph1701 Posted December 14, 2008 Author Share Posted December 14, 2008 My issue appears to be the adapter between the computer and the cat5 cable. I am waiting for my replacement to get my show back up and running. I'll post if that actually fixes the problem. The adapter I am useing is the sc485-rj45. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joseph1701 Posted December 23, 2008 Author Share Posted December 23, 2008 Well it was the adapter. All is good for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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