Sweet 8)

[flintman]

Well i have my grinch built along with the ssrs wired in my lights today over 1000ft of wire 8) and ran it thought a few tests nothing worked 8( so i noticed a post about volts on the port. i droped the voltage to 4.6 supply. still nothing. I droped it then to 3.7 and Almost everything worked had a few issues bad connection on the neutral splice but im 80% complete with issues. I have 4 channels not working 3 on one ssr and 1 on another ssr. I started getting into figureing it out but too dark out. What would cause this Oh by the way i have the grinch and ssrs in the same encloser a 14x14 encloser. All cables are shielded and the port cable is about 4 feet long. Could the voltage be too low to not trigger all the ssrs??

[Macrosill]

Flint,
Congrats on your success. You issues of the channels not working on the ssrs triple check your cable connections from the controller to the ssrs. I had a few bad crimps last year causing the same type of issues.

[flintman]

Ya i was thinking that out of cat 5 so ill def test that tommorrow

[wjohn]

Flint,

a great investment is a CAT 5 Cable tester.

Cut, Crimp and test every time.

[flintman]

8) i have on but it's at work 8( and i wanted to get this up today. Im just hoping it's the problem will make it real easy fix

[flintman]

So i replaced all the cable. On this one grinch i have 20 channels hooked up
a
b
c
d
e
for the plugs im using. Now i tested the ssrs and they are fine i move c and d over to g and h and everything works with an all lights on. Now i test channel for channel and here is what i get

1 thought 4 seem to work ok 5-8 act weired when i turn on 8 , 18 turns on when i turn 8 off and back on 8 and 18 acting very wierd soo im thinking back to my voltage to my grinch hmmm 3.7 too low for supply voltage should i try the4.5 volt power supply i have when i had one ssr and the 4.5 power supply hooked up nothing worked but now that i have the 5 ssrs hocked up maybe it will work i don't know hmm.

[flintman]

nevermind i hooked up the 4.5 and nothing works leds on but nothing switches

[flintman]

update been chatting with Wayne J tried another pc and the 4.5 volt supply the lights came on once with that all on command and then i turned them off and nothing after that

[flintman]

question maybe dumb but the rj45s on the grinch are labeled a b c d etc etc

Is A 1-4
B 5-8
c 9-13
etc etc ??

[Macrosill]

yes

[flintman]

ok i figured that's how i have it just steping back and trying to figure it out

[flintman]

Before Anyone goes nuts trying to figure out why your lights arn't flashing or the sequence is off GO BUY A Regulated Adjustable Power Supply. So after spending a few nights with different power supplies and still not working right i decided to head to my local electroics supply house and i picked up a 0-5 volt regulated adjustable power supply for a wonderfull $25. Hooked it up after a few attempts i was tooned into the Perfect voltage to switch my lights off and on 4.63 volts. They are working Great now Sequencing dead on have 2 channels that arn't working but i don't care the rest are working wonderfull.

[wjohn]

Just as I wrote in the manual. For me, it was 4.67V. I have both a LAB power supply for testing and a 10$ LM317 regulator setup for my show PC. I runn the Input off the 12 V rails, and provide 4.67 to the GRINCH.

[flintman]

the power supply i was using was a 4.6 volt but was putting out 4.8 volts so this nice adjustable one makes it soo easy to adj your voltage 8)