cenote wrote: Wow, nice job on adapting. Haven't even put my stuff together yet.
Thanks! Don't feel bad Chuck. I've only had time to assemble one of the new ones.
Due to a windfall, I now have three 96 channel boards. After I adapt the Halloween skulls to a 50 pin SCSI cable I'm going to sell the two 24 channel boards and a proto buffer board that's had some repairs to the traces... I also got an ISA 48 channel board. It pins out identically to the 96 channel boards.
Like Roger said, we better get moving. It'll be Christmas before you know it.
Jeff
____________________ Evan... Are you at home resting yet? I'm very glad you're feeling better!
Yippee... assembled one of the boards tonight, and works no problem 48 new blinky lights...at least all the led's turn on and off when the should. test firing the ssr's tomorrow night.
One note, I screwed up the one solder joint , not sure if I over heated, the jumper pin no longer exist. had to solder a wire from cable pin to point after jumper. Had problems getting the pins to go threw the hole, that might of done it. The solder around the hole actually chipped off while pushing pins threw. Oh well, still got it to work.
____________________ ---> 160 LOR : 96 DIO : (2) Lamp Timers : EDM Trans
---> 25,000 up...5,000 to go
cenote wrote: Yippee... assembled one of the boards tonight, and works no problem 48 new blinky lights...at least all the led's turn on and off when the should. test firing the ssr's tomorrow night.
One note, I screwed up the one solder joint , not sure if I over heated, the jumper pin no longer exist. had to solder a wire from cable pin to point after jumper. Had problems getting the pins to go threw the hole, that might of done it. The solder around the hole actually chipped off while pushing pins threw. Oh well, still got it to work.
Yeehaw! Great feeling, ain't it??!!
If the led's are blinking, the signal will get out. I'm sure your SSR's, will be just fine and dandy!
I thought I had mentioned that I had to drill out the header pin holes, but maybe I didn't. The header and shunt fit WAS mentioned by Jeff, and I meant to mention that I drilled mine out a bit, as the first header was VERY tough to get in. It's very probable that the jumper had the same problem, but since I have 3 DIO's and 6 buffer boards running together, I have separate power supplies for them. Just personal pref. So I didn't use the jumper. It's really, really hard to overheat a trace, and have it come off, but pushing a big pin through a small hole, will do it very easily. I wouldn't suspect it was your soldering, but too small holes. If the solder chipped off, the trace itself came apart, and popped from the board. If that's the worst you had, you're in great shape! The jumper is great, if you will be changing your mind, which is very possible, but if you know you never will, perhaps a solid wire would be best there, unless you have very small drills. I just happen to.
Glad it's together, Chuck!!
I'm now thinking very hard about changing my whole plan! I originally had plans for my NI DIO96 boards, and two FireGod controllers. I have now gotten involved with a new wireless controller, that's pretty darn cool. I was going to run it, along with a DIO, and the FireGod boards, but the way it's set up, probably won't run very well. So, I'll be getting 4 of the controllers, for 512 channels, and probably getting rid of all the rest. The nice thing about it is that I have a shop across the street from my house. Being wireless, I can do the shop. Plus, there's only one other house on my side of the street, and they put up some lights. And, there's only one house next to my shop. So, I can run 512 channels, between my house, the two other houses, and the shop! And all be synchronized wirelessly. Just imagine, when you turn the corner to my street, both sides of the road from corner to corner, in full synch!! Now, to see if it all comes together...
In the words of MLKJr, "I have a dream!!"
Let us know how the SSR's test out!
R
Last edited on Thu May 28th, 2009 06:01 am by 51fordf2
Jeff Millard wrote: The channel count reflects what's printed on the board. You'll see that on the 0 to 23 side th SSRs are in reverse order. I just made a cheat sheet that gives the correct order to go counter clockwise around the board.
Jeff
Little confused, hooked up to SSR and works, but kind of backwards. Is this what you mean jeff? When buffer turns on channel 0, ssr channel 4 works, when buffer chan 1 is on, ssr board #3 flips...etc
____________________ ---> 160 LOR : 96 DIO : (2) Lamp Timers : EDM Trans
---> 25,000 up...5,000 to go
yep, but on the opposite side of the board they work in order. I didn't alter the order, due to the way MC set up their 50 pin header. Had I tried to get them so 0-3 was SSR 1 1-4 I would have needed to make a multilayer board to maintain the small footprint. All it takes to correct it is to make a cross reference table and put the right channel.
Jeff
____________________ Evan... Are you at home resting yet? I'm very glad you're feeling better!
My simple statement is that since I decided to jump into a fully animated display for 2009 (2nd year) - everyone on the LOR forum has been helpful. I have two of my three CTB16Kpcv1 kits built and tested.
I am doing a DIY project - and everyone is great with both advice and how to proceed.
This is the way things should work, not the exception.
You bet it does! I have two of my LOR controllers assembled and tested, one to go. This project is one step closer to completion (planning on 48ch of DIO for 2009).
I'm so glad you guys are getting something useful out of these boards. Congrats on a successful build! When I get my dirty little hands on a couple DIO 32 boards we'll have to see what we can com up with to interface them too.
Jeff
____________________ Evan... Are you at home resting yet? I'm very glad you're feeling better!
I've been stocking up on spools of SPT-2, I'm moving from 6 channels last year to about 100 channels this year and will need to build a lot of extension cords. I can't find the vampire plugs and receptacles at any of the local hardware stores. Looking at what they do carry - it would be cheaper for me to wait until the holiday season starts and buy 6 foot extension cords ($1.67 last year) and splice to extend them.
Any good source for the vampire plugs and receptacles? Or is there a better way to do this?
, not sure if I over heated, the jumper pin no longer exist. had to solder a wire from cable pin to point after jumper. Had problems getting the pins to go threw the hole, that might of done it. The solder around the hole actually chipped off while pushing pins threw. Oh well, still got it to work. 
