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Hardware => Lynx Wireless DMX => Topic started by: mmais68569 on March 11, 2012, 07:59:03 pm

Title: Wireless Help with Ray's Controller " SOLVED"
Post by: mmais68569 on March 11, 2012, 07:59:03 pm

Is there any way to get this controller from Ray

http://www.aliexpress.com/fm-store/701799/209915969-378111925/Easy-DMX-LED-controller-dmx-decoder-driver.html

To work with the TX/RX wireless???

I am using the XLR plug on the controller & the cat 5 coming is wired like this

http://www.aliexpress.com/fm-store/701799/209915969-378111925/Easy-DMX-LED-controller-dmx-decoder-driver.html

Pin 2 has solid Orange
Pin 3 has orange & White

The controller is plugged into a 12V power supply

The green light on the dongle is on solid
The green light on the TX is flashing
The Green light on the RX is flashing.

     Thanks Mike

Title: Re: Wireless Help with Ray's Controller
Post by: barbotte on March 11, 2012, 10:02:11 pm

well i am planning trying too ,,, as soon as i get my wireless in ... but looking at my board it should be posible as there is a 485 chip on board so that procedure from the wiky should work
http://www.diylightanimation.com/wiki/index.php?title=Mod_Wireless
cheer

Title: Wireless Help with Ray's Controller
Post by: rm357 on March 11, 2012, 10:31:14 pm

If you are talking tx/RX in receive mode, you just need a cable to go cat5 to xlr.

If you are talking ex/RX, you will need to look at the voltage applied to the 485 chip, and if it is not too high, remove the 485 chip and wire it up as indicated in the wiki for the ssr4.

Title: Re: Wireless Help with Ray's Controller
Post by: chrisatpsu on March 11, 2012, 10:40:21 pm

yes i know the page is about LOR equipment, but the point i'm trying to make is with the picture.


look at the picture with the male, and female connectors...  note that they are mirror images, so it depends on which plug you're using with the device (male, or female) will matter as to which pin is pin1

Title: Re: Wireless Help with Ray's Controller
Post by: taybrynn on March 12, 2012, 01:01:01 am

I've used the Tx/Rx (Rx mode) with the $8 Ray DMX controller ... worked fine. 

Title: Re: Wireless Help with Ray's Controller
Post by: mmais68569 on March 12, 2012, 07:27:25 am

I will look at the XLR plug again to see if it wired correct but I think it was as the pin numbers where on the plug.
Also may be that the DMX address is not set right, with just using 1 controller at this time the address is set to 1.

That is 1 is on & rest off (this is the way Ray's $8 controller works)

          Mike

Title: Re: Wireless Help with Ray's Controller " SOLVED"
Post by: mmais68569 on March 12, 2012, 03:07:42 pm

Problem solved, I changed the CAT5 cable & re soldered the XLR plug & everything is working. So yes the Lynx wireless will work with Ray's 27 CH controller.

            Mike

Title: Re: Wireless Help with Ray's Controller " SOLVED"
Post by: chrisatpsu on March 12, 2012, 06:13:05 pm

congrats!

Title: Re: Wireless Help with Ray's Controller " SOLVED"
Post by: Mike Hill on March 12, 2012, 06:26:29 pm

Can you attach a picture of your finished product here?

Title: Re: Wireless Help with Ray's Controller " SOLVED"
Post by: mmais68569 on March 12, 2012, 08:49:03 pm

Here is a short video of the finished lights, will have to wait till the morning to get an inside shot of the controller & power supply

Mike

http://vimeo.com/38403647

Title: Re: Wireless Help with Ray's Controller " SOLVED"
Post by: Mike Hill on March 12, 2012, 09:18:36 pm

Very sharp.  I look forward to pics of the actual hardware setup.

Thank you Mike!

Title: Re: Wireless Help with Ray's Controller " SOLVED"
Post by: mmais68569 on March 13, 2012, 11:09:23 am

Here is a picture of the inside of the control box. The TX/RX receiver is attached to the back of the box in a small case connected by the CAT5 cable.

         Mike

Title: Re: Wireless Help with Ray's Controller " SOLVED"
Post by: chrisatpsu on March 13, 2012, 11:41:15 am

if you run into intermittent troubles down the road, you might need to terminate.

i just soldered a resistor across the connection of an xlr connector and used that

Title: Re: Wireless Help with Ray's Controller " SOLVED"
Post by: mmais68569 on March 13, 2012, 12:00:31 pm

This controller will become part of my Christmas display this year so I will not terminate at this time.

       Mike

Title: Re: Wireless Help with Ray's Controller " SOLVED"
Post by: barbotte on June 27, 2012, 11:29:46 pm

hey can you take picure of the conector ?? all i see is the cat 5 cable going somewhere ,,, what is on the other side
thank

Title: Re: Wireless Help with Ray's Controller " SOLVED"
Post by: mmais68569 on June 28, 2012, 07:31:29 am

The cat5 goes to the TX/RX screwed to the back of the control box.

          Mike

Title: Re: Wireless Help with Ray's Controller " SOLVED"
Post by: barbotte on July 03, 2012, 11:18:39 pm

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Here is a picture of the inside of the control box. The TX/RX receiver is attached to the back of the box in a small case connected by the CAT5 cable.

         Mike

k i need help ??  i have my controler and power suply ready to go ... i have a xlr plug ... but i want to run the xlr from a lynx express  wich cable to i hok up from xlr to rg 45 ...
thanks