Tim P Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 Hey all, I am asking what may be a stupid question, but is it channels 1-8 that gets the input powerd cord to run the CMC16D DC board? Or is it 9-16?ThanksTim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-klb- Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 The logic will run off of the barrel connector, or the power input for channels 1-8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim P Posted October 25, 2009 Author Share Posted October 25, 2009 KLB, Thanks, I see the LED blinky, and solid when hooked up to seq edit, but no lights coming on. It appears in the utility that it has found the comm port , but not the board itself. Yet the led light goes from blinky to solid when it should.??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-klb- Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 Double check what ID you have the dials set to. Then in the hardware utility, make sure you have the max ID set higher than the dials. At least on the card I am looking at, the pointer for the dial is 90 degrees from the screwdriver slot... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank A. Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 TimI have a CMB 16D DC boardboth the 1-8 and 9-16 have to be poweredI use 24 VDC and just jumper + to +(plus to plus) and - to -(minus to minus)I do not know if there are any differences between the board I haveand the board that you haveI think this answers your questionFrank a. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank A. Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 Timthis might help Attached files Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Fischer Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 Tim P wrote:KLB, Thanks, I see the LED blinky, and solid when hooked up to seq edit, but no lights coming on. It appears in the utility that it has found the comm port , but not the board itself. Yet the led light goes from blinky to solid when it should.???A non-blinking LED means the unit is seeing the computer.New boards should be tested in the Hardware Utility -- this rules out a lot of human error. Make sure number of units set in the HWU is set high enough, and do a scan, then see if your board shows up. If it does, try controlling the lights from there. If it works there, and not in the sequence error, you have a channel config problem in your sequence.-Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim P Posted October 25, 2009 Author Share Posted October 25, 2009 Frank, I just bought one last December, and I had it wired to one side. I disconnected it and sent it to LOR for an issue that I caused. Either way , I just got a new one sent back and I forgot how I wired the one from last year. It looks identical, I'm assuming it is the same model board.t Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-klb- Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 If you are only using channels on 1-8, you only need to apply power to 1-8. I had 7 channels in use that way last Christmas, and I've got 4 in use that way now.I do actually have cards from two different hardware revisions, and they both work that way. The two differences I have noticed are the metal tabbed, higher power MOSFETs on the new ones, and that the old ones could have the logic powered over the LOR bus, which was great for testing, but could cause problems with a number of them connected together. I usually keep the one old one I have separate for testing and such. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim P Posted October 25, 2009 Author Share Posted October 25, 2009 PROBLEM SOLVED !!!! The 2 unit ID dials were set in reverse. I set the first dial (Left) to 5. I chose 5 because it is the 5th controller, and the second dial set to 1, all according to the instructions...... WRONG. I obviously mixed it up. I should have caught this since I have another controller that has the unit ID dials. Now, I am going to run back to the instructions again and prove to myself that it is my error, and not a miss print. The Manual is correct as I suspected. Slow down Timmy!Thanks All, Now back to hanging lights and running wires.Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Fischer Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 Glad you figured it out.One "sanity check" I've done in the past to catch things like this, is to go to the HWU and set it to the max possible controllers- then scan. It will find everything on the network that way, no matter what the unit id... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marquisite Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 Hi,Instead of creating a brand new topic I thought it was best I post here.I'm about to make up the low voltage input cables for 4 lots of DC boards, and was wondering if it is safe/ok to use small jumper cables instead of running two cables from a controller to the power supply?I'll be running all the controllers from the one power supply, so if I can use a jumper cable to power both banks and run just one cable per controller (instead of two) that is going to save some money.See attached image for a better idea at what I am asking. Attached files Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edvas69 Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 marquisite wrote: Hi,Instead of creating a brand new topic I thought it was best I post here.I'm about to make up the low voltage input cables for 4 lots of DC boards, and was wondering if it is safe/ok to use small jumper cables instead of running two cables from a controller to the power supply?I'll be running all the controllers from the one power supply, so if I can use a jumper cable to power both banks and run just one cable per controller (instead of two) that is going to save some money.See attached image for a better idea at what I am asking.There is no issue in doing this, I did this last year on my AC LOR boards. In fact i daisy chained 2 LOR boards together so the one panel had one supply cable. The only thing you must be aware is to ensure that the supply cable and bridge cables are rated high enough to handle the load amps that both sides of the baord will be using Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marquisite Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 Thanks eddy!I believe the cable I have has an 8 to 9 amp max. rating. Should be enough for each controller, I think!Worked out in most cases I'll only have max about a 5 amp load per controller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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