MrBiteMe4 Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 Tonight one of the houses that I run with my computer using the ELL to cross the road wasn't working.I have 3 houses hooked up. I have 10 controllers on my house, linked to 3 controllers across the street, to 3 controllers next door to them. After I checked his power and determined that the boxes were working, I mearly un-plugged my ELL from the cat5 and then plugged it back in. IT WORKED! I thought that maybe it was just a bad connection with my cat5, but the other neighbors was working fine. Anyone else had this issue? They have worked great for 3 years. I hope they are not going bad at a 150 bucks a pop! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max-Paul Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 Hopefully it was some kind of power glitch that scrambled the electronics inside of the ELL and by removing the power and powering it back up it rest the scrambled electronicis. But we will also be crossing our fingers for you..Merry Christmas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank A. Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 Good morningi have had mystery blackouts as wellnever had the main ell and a remote ell work with the secondremote ell downmy issue has been the main ell knocking the whole thing downall i ever do is kill the communicationbetween the show computer and the first LOR unitnot by unplugging just stopping the sessionComm always comms back immediatelyI think most of our issues are with the squirrelywindows systems that we useFrank A. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBiteMe4 Posted December 23, 2009 Author Share Posted December 23, 2009 [align=left]Thanks to all! It started up fine tonight. Hopefuly it was merely an ANOMALY![/align] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGabriel Posted December 26, 2009 Share Posted December 26, 2009 I too had an ELL to go on the blink last night. The display in the back yard shut down after the first sequence. Front yard keep on working. We had a lot of rain the past day and night. Check it out this morning and it was still down. Plug in PC and controller worked fine. Swapped ELL with the one connected to the computer and still did not work. Swapped Cat 5 cables still did not work. Hardware utility saw it connected and leds were blinking as the manual saids. Then after messing with it for about 20 minutes the thingy started working. Up and running as I type. I guess it just wanted to be play with.Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wess Hoskins Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 I would like to switch to ell next year i have concerns about distance they will travel and if anyone has had issues with the signal's crossing with the music??? So anyone willing to answer thanks in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBiteMe4 Posted December 28, 2009 Author Share Posted December 28, 2009 My farthest ELL is about a 750' ,with an obstructed line of site, from the other. It works great. The issued that I mentioned above only happened 1 time in 3 years. I think it was just a glitch. It certainly was'nt signal strength. LOR says it should work up to 4000' (probably with an unobstructed line of site). I believe it!I recommend the ELL. They are'nt cheap, but well worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Young Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 I second that. They sure beat running hundreds of feet of CAT5! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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