more channels added this year...

Message Topic Search Topic Options Post Reply Create New Topic Printable Version

   Well got the other controller together and now im adding more channels. Ive been adding one at a time aand every time i save the seq. the channels get rearranged, so ive the new ones getting mixed in to the old.  What have i done wrong this time?

Author	Message Topic Search Topic Options Post Reply Create New Topic Printable Version
polarass07 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 18 Sep 2008 Location: iowa Online Status: Offline Posts: 46	Quote Reply Topic: more channels added this year... Posted: 08 Oct 2008 at 9:59pm
	Well got the other controller together and now im adding more channels. Ive been adding one at a time aand every time i save the seq. the channels get rearranged, so ive the new ones getting mixed in to the old. What have i done wrong this time?


polarass07 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 18 Sep 2008 Location: iowa Online Status: Offline Posts: 46	Quote Reply Posted: 07 Oct 2008 at 9:46pm
	Well i was going to put together the other controller tonight but, i stopped at Ace hardware to get some thermal grease and the dude told me that it was the same thing as dielectric grease but after further investigating sounds like they are nothing alike. So maybe tomorrow i will get it together providing i find some grease.


JonB256 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List DMX Joined: 19 Dec 2007 Location: Granbury, TX Online Status: Offline Posts: 130	Quote Reply Posted: 07 Oct 2008 at 9:02am
	Good News! If you have updated both controllers with new firmware, be sure you reset your ID numbers back to their old values! They got reset back to #2 by the firmware updater. Edited by JonB256 - 07 Oct 2008 at 9:02am
	JonB - D-Light user

polarass07 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 18 Sep 2008 Location: iowa Online Status: Offline Posts: 46	Quote Reply Posted: 07 Oct 2008 at 7:13am
	late last night i downloaded the firmware update and it seems that it has takin care of all my bugs. IS it to good to be ture? I think ill might get home eariler tonight and try some more testing.


JonB256 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List DMX Joined: 19 Dec 2007 Location: Granbury, TX Online Status: Offline Posts: 130	Quote Reply Posted: 07 Oct 2008 at 6:54am
	What kind of lights do you have attached to your ACx16? Are they LEDs or incandescents? What do you have connected? Though it hasn't happened to me (yet), some people have had trouble with very low power lights (like LEDs) staying ON when there is no signal. If that sounds like your situation, know that D-Light is working on a Firmware fix to the "phantom power" phenomenon where the TRIACs never completely turn off.
	JonB - D-Light user

polarass07 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 18 Sep 2008 Location: iowa Online Status: Offline Posts: 46	Quote Reply Posted: 06 Oct 2008 at 8:44pm
	I havent hooked up the second controller yet but i will have it as ID # 5 . Ive been running my show through the sequencer not the scheduler. The LED does the same thing as yours. Blinks until i send the show and then is remains solid til its over, back to blinking and all my lights come on.


JonB256 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List DMX Joined: 19 Dec 2007 Location: Granbury, TX Online Status: Offline Posts: 130	Quote Reply Posted: 06 Oct 2008 at 5:17am
	That sounds like progress though not victory. Your second controller is an ACx16 with an ID of 5, correct? Is that verified by doing a HWUtil Discover? When I play a sequence in the sequencer, my controller LED is flashing up to the moment it starts, then resumes flashing when the sequence ends. Is yours doing the same? The sequencer "releases" the board when it isn't playing so that you can run the HWUtil from the top menu choice. Very convenient. If you are running your show using the Scheduler, and that is when your lights are staying on, then do you have something in the "Run Once" box at the bottom? Can you create a brand new sequence, import your working 16 channels, put in just a minimal amount of intervals and On/Offs and see if that does it also? Don't put anything near the end, though.
	JonB - D-Light user

polarass07 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 18 Sep 2008 Location: iowa Online Status: Offline Posts: 46	Quote Reply Posted: 05 Oct 2008 at 9:56pm
	OK so i reimported channel files from another song which deleted the second controller, so im back to 16 original channels and my visualizer is working again. Now i need to add my other 16 channels some how other than going through spectrum. Any suggestions? And still cant get my lights to shut off outside with out using the hardware utility. What causes that?


JonB256 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List DMX Joined: 19 Dec 2007 Location: Granbury, TX Online Status: Offline Posts: 130	Quote Reply Posted: 05 Oct 2008 at 8:53pm
	But what about a Virtual Memory crash? Has that stopped? Hopefully??? What about if you just use the "default" picture? (delete the entry for your house's picture in the File Properties menu? The default.jpg file is in the "Aurora Sequencer" folder. Try using it. If it works using the default.jpg from Aurora, then perhaps try replacing their file (by renaming it, not deleting it) with your renamed JPG.
	JonB - D-Light user

polarass07 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 18 Sep 2008 Location: iowa Online Status: Offline Posts: 46	Quote Reply Posted: 05 Oct 2008 at 8:44pm
	I tried both graphics and all three memory settings and still no show on the visualizer.