Max channels in LOR?

[RobertB]

I'm so sorry I am not making myself clear on this.
I know that in setting up your models you have to assign channels. Be it in dmx or LOR. In the LOR DMX Addressing Table on http://www1.lightorama.com/Documents/DMX-DOC.pdf it shows the unit 06 has a starting dmx address of 81.  That would make it end at 96. 

My question is this;
I have controllers on Unit 01, thru 04. I skip 05 and 06. Then I go to 07. Skip 08 thru 11  (don't even use the 0A thru 0F thing). Then I have units 12 and 13. 

In all of that, I use 100 channels. YES. I know I need to do some cleaning up. But time is not on my side and trying to figure which way to go.  I can quickly shave down to 96 total used channels.

So... yes to the question now ;-)
Can I leave the sequences as is and move them over, or do I have to clean up all of those holes before I do? I want to use the LOR dongle if possible. I do not have the 500k one and really don't want to spend more money on LOR stuff... if possible

[Gilrock]

It depends on how you plan to bring the sequences over.  If you have X number of channels and bring them over as a conversion or a data layer then you will still have X number of channels in the resulting data and you can't reduce it to a smaller number in xLights.  If you are importing as effects then it's possible but you would need to first bring in the sequences using the full channel count and an exact model mapping including the gaps and THEN you could delete the channels/models you aren't using and the imported effects would remain on the other models which you can then move around to anywhere you want. 

[colonelcline]

So... yes to the question now ;-)
Can I leave the sequences as is and move them over, or do I have to clean up all of those holes before I do? I want to use the LOR dongle if possible. I do not have the 500k one and really don't want to spend more money on LOR stuff... if possible

In SE set your Lor boxes up on whatever COM port the LOR dongle is on. In XL make the first entry COMx. I think this is where the confusion is as XL kinda says 96 is the max for a COM port. This is just a recommendation and you can have more. I have 112 channels on my COM6 in XL setup. I think you could put more in your case 304 channels. I could be wrong so maybe a guru can pipe in?

[RobertB]

So... yes to the question now ;-)
Can I leave the sequences as is and move them over, or do I have to clean up all of those holes before I do? I want to use the LOR dongle if possible. I do not have the 500k one and really don't want to spend more money on LOR stuff... if possible

In SE set your Lor boxes up on whatever COM port the LOR dongle is on. In XL make the first entry COMx. I think this is where the confusion is as XL kinda says 96 is the max for a COM port. This is just a recommendation and you can have more. I have 112 channels on my COM6 in XL setup. I think you could put more in your case 304 channels. I could be wrong so maybe a guru can pipe in?

If this is the case..... you would have just made my day... maybe week!  :-)
It will be easy for me to get rid of ID #'s 8,9,10 and 11. I can just move up controllers 12 and 13. The others are little more of a pain.

[colonelcline]

If this is the case..... you would have just made my day... maybe week!  :-)
It will be easy for me to get rid of ID #'s 8,9,10 and 11. I can just move up controllers 12 and 13. The others are little more of a pain.

I think that XL sends to the COM port only what it needs to. COM ports can't handle the traffic like networking can so there is a limit. 96 total channels is a safe number but your mileage will vary. I suppose if all 96 were repeatedly turned off/on at once it might cause problems? I run 112 with no problems and on the slow dongle.

[colonelcline]

http://nutcracker123.com/forum/index.php?topic=1306.msg7239#msg7239

[Gilrock]

Next tutorial will be how to post a link.
http://nutcracker123.com/forum/index.php?topic=1306.msg7239#msg7239

[colonelcline]

Next tutorial will be how to post a link.

I can barely make the lights blink let alone learn anything more!

[Greg.Ca]

Pretty sure lor has a 500k adapter. I think it's the red one.

What is a 500K adapter? Red one?? Huh??

[Phrog30]

Pretty sure lor has a 500k adapter. I think it's the red one.

What is a 500K adapter? Red one?? Huh??

Look here.

http://www1.lightorama.com/converters/