hello every one another newbee
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Welcome Jim.
It looks like you've been lurking for a bit.
You won't find a real lot that you'll be able to control these days with a 240V controller. Almost all of the lights available in Aus are low voltage lights with either a transformer to drop the voltage down from 240V to 24V AC or something similar or they are low voltage DC lights running off a plugpack power supply. For both of these style lights you can't dim them with a LOR AC controller. You can (potentially) turn them on or off and that's about the limit of control. There are very limited supplies of 240V led ropelights around that might be able to be controlled with an AC board. Led lights are a known issue with AC dimmers as they can tend to stick on. Old school incandescent rope lights and rope light ornaments are some of the few lights that will still work with an AC dimmer.
What do you mean by 16 channel controller running American voltages? If it's a 110V AC controller then that is a bigger nightmare than a 240V one as there are a whole bunch of components on the board that mean that you can't connect to 240V without cooking the board.
Xlights might be able to directly control the Pixie which could save you the cost of having to buy the LOR software if you haven't already.
What part of Vic are you in?
It looks like you've been lurking for a bit.
You won't find a real lot that you'll be able to control these days with a 240V controller. Almost all of the lights available in Aus are low voltage lights with either a transformer to drop the voltage down from 240V to 24V AC or something similar or they are low voltage DC lights running off a plugpack power supply. For both of these style lights you can't dim them with a LOR AC controller. You can (potentially) turn them on or off and that's about the limit of control. There are very limited supplies of 240V led ropelights around that might be able to be controlled with an AC board. Led lights are a known issue with AC dimmers as they can tend to stick on. Old school incandescent rope lights and rope light ornaments are some of the few lights that will still work with an AC dimmer.
What do you mean by 16 channel controller running American voltages? If it's a 110V AC controller then that is a bigger nightmare than a 240V one as there are a whole bunch of components on the board that mean that you can't connect to 240V without cooking the board.
Xlights might be able to directly control the Pixie which could save you the cost of having to buy the LOR software if you haven't already.
What part of Vic are you in?
Notenoughlights
400,000+ twinkly lights
I am fairly sure the LOR Pixie (Pixcon?) controller will accept E1.31 data, I remember having a look into it in the past. It is very similar to the Advatek Pixlite 16 MK2 controller.
Quick check on the LOR site is showing the PixCon16 can do E1.31 - which is the advatek one.
The Pixies, however, can only be run on a LOR serial network-
Network Speeds and Compatibility
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Looking at xLights config, it shows that it can talk either to the Pixcon16, or to a pixielink.
Which led me to this:
https://store.lightorama.com/products/pixielink
Looks like an E1.31 to LOR network adapter.
Notenoughlights
400,000+ twinkly lights
Wouldn't that just be an E1.31 to DMX converter just using the LOR pinout?Quick check on the LOR site is showing the PixCon16 can do E1.31 - which is the advatek one.
The Pixies, however, can only be run on a LOR serial network-
View attachment 20825Network Speeds and Compatibility
Click a link to jump to a section on this page! How Many Smart Pixels Can I Use Per Network? Network Speeds - Which Controllers/Products Can Be Used At Each Speed? How Many Lights Can I Use On My LOR High Voltage AC Light Controller? Power Cords and Channel Banks Typical Power Consumption of...store.lightorama.com
Looking at xLights config, it shows that it can talk either to the Pixcon16, or to a pixielink.
Which led me to this:
https://store.lightorama.com/products/pixielink
Looks like an E1.31 to LOR network adapter.
It can operate in that way - however with the Pixel stuff, they run a much higher data rate, which I am assuming is running some strange protocol too -
Async Network Protocols and Speeds
The Async RS485 ports on the PixieLink adapter can be configured at the following speeds:
- DMX -- 250Kbps
- ELOR -- 19.2Kbps, 57.6Kbps, 115.2Kbps, 500Kbps, 1Mbps
- PixieLink – 4.25Mbps, 8.5Mbps, 17Mbps