Recent content by bright spark

Hi peeps. I briefly came across something in a forum somewhere out there in the world and thought if it worked would solve many of my probs. The idea is to create RGB rope light by placing a flexible strip inside plastic tube. Now I have tested this out and not just any old plastic tube. Clear...

Sorry David, was past my bed time when I wrote that, the poor old brain gets a few run-time errors. What I have noticed with your circuit is that the logic supply is from the load supply and not from the pixel input. From this I assume the jumper is to drive the output side of things from the...

Sorry if I was a lil unclear, it was rather late last night for me. Ok so what we have here, is basicly removing the CCR strip all together if you wish, and replacing each pixel (up to total of 50) with 1 of my cards which will be able to easily handle up to 10amps/channel. Now you can expand an...

Hey guys. I have been developing a DMX decoder module based on the LPD6803 which is what LOR's CCR uses. What I designed it for was to be able to use a CCR controller and up to 50 of the modules and expand the CCR controller to basicly give you a 150 channel controller for a fraction of what it...

Hey guys, it seems that David and I were having very similar thoughts about this. I too have developed a LPD6803 controller. I was planning on using them along with a LOR CCR controller to basicly give me a 150 channel controller for a fraction of the cost. Now my design appears to to be quite...

sorry about sounding so cynical, just very tired over here in nappy land. As a 31yr old I tend to sound like a grumpy old fart at times, actually more often than not these days. I just find it funny how so often a simple question can attract some rather interesting and long winded replies, some...

ppfffftttt If your low voltage light sets have a 240V plug pack on them, it is more than ok to plug them into the controller. That is so yesterday!!!! been there done that and moved on In fact a got rid of the plug pack and connected the light set straight to a DC card. The plug packs just have...

hey buddy try these guys, www.diluled.com havent actually bought from them, but their prices were very good and you get connectors with it

For sometime now I have been reading about the woes of the xmas lighting world, I've had a laugh and I've shook my head in tears. With such a growing community of enthusiants, who many sadly may not have a good understanding of electricity. I am an electrician by trade and my best advice to most...

For sometime now I have been reading about the woes of the xmas lighting world, I've had a laugh and I've shook my head in tears. With such a growing community of enthusiants, who many sadly may not have a good understanding of electricity. I am an electrician by trade and my best advice to most...

OK, the controller still works on the real CCR, tried swapping data and clock around just to be sure, and nothing happened. So all in all I dont believe this is a good solution if you are trying to stay within the LOR world. If you want to go to a DMX world then why the hell would you want to...

The strip has only the 1 connection and I assume that D1 is in and D0 is out for example, since that was the way it came, mind you I wouldn't put it past Ray to have assed it up, it wouldnt be the first time either. definately have connected it correctly according to the original strip, but will...

Ok so I have a 6803 strip, just like the one shown in the wiki, connected to the CCR controller about 100mm away. Controller ID is 1 and yes it has been tested on a CCR and I have S2

Hi Fasteddy, I followed your wiki and got all the pixels to come on in random colours during power up, but the controller wont do anything from there on. So if i am doing something silly feel free to give me your guidance please. On the other hand i am not too fussed as i am not that keen on...

Hey guys, been awhile since I started this post. You know what its like, between having babies and trying to make other people's dreams (and my own) come to life, oh and there is that other horrible place I have to go everyday, I just need that new 30hr day to come into effect. I did test a 6803...