I just got one of these 12-channel dimming AC controllers from Aliexpress about a week ago to play with to see if I could get it to work for my Christmas show this year as I still use a lot of AC props (currently three 16-channel LOR controllers and a DMX relay).
I was hoping this might get me through this year with a few more AC props as I slowly begin transitioning to just a few pixel strings (also have a controller for those, not in use yet).
Anyway, I saw that it was for 50Hz AC power, and it didn't work at all when I tried it, but there are small jumper pads on the PCB labeled "60Hz" so thought I'd give that a try. After placing a wire jumper between the pads it still didn't work so thought I'd check on this forum to see if anybody else has had success with 60Hz power with one of these.
I'm using Vixen 3.x with Open DMX driving the controllers. This also works fine with the DMX relay I've used so expect it should work just as well with the new board which is a DMX controller. Its DMX LED also blinks like it should as soon as Vixen is running and the dongle is connected to the board.
I just connected the board by itself and set it for the first 12 DMX channels just to see if I could get anything happening with one of my sequences... nada. Checked with an O-scope to see if there were any signals from the outputs on the microcontroller and nothing there. I suspect the firmware is testing for a 50Hz line frequency and probably nothing actually in the firmware to check the 60Hz jumper input. I've reached out to the manufacturer but not much help there.
So if anyone has tried one of these and had success on USA power I'd sure like to hear from you
I was hoping this might get me through this year with a few more AC props as I slowly begin transitioning to just a few pixel strings (also have a controller for those, not in use yet).
Anyway, I saw that it was for 50Hz AC power, and it didn't work at all when I tried it, but there are small jumper pads on the PCB labeled "60Hz" so thought I'd give that a try. After placing a wire jumper between the pads it still didn't work so thought I'd check on this forum to see if anybody else has had success with 60Hz power with one of these.
I'm using Vixen 3.x with Open DMX driving the controllers. This also works fine with the DMX relay I've used so expect it should work just as well with the new board which is a DMX controller. Its DMX LED also blinks like it should as soon as Vixen is running and the dongle is connected to the board.
I just connected the board by itself and set it for the first 12 DMX channels just to see if I could get anything happening with one of my sequences... nada. Checked with an O-scope to see if there were any signals from the outputs on the microcontroller and nothing there. I suspect the firmware is testing for a 50Hz line frequency and probably nothing actually in the firmware to check the 60Hz jumper input. I've reached out to the manufacturer but not much help there.
So if anyone has tried one of these and had success on USA power I'd sure like to hear from you