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Cheap signal controller

Postby MrE12ax7 on Wed Apr 10, 2013 9:04 pm

is this a good or bad one ?
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Re: Cheap signal controller

Postby steven1981 on Wed Apr 10, 2013 9:37 pm

Just as a friendly reminder, members are not allowed to post live auctions (either from EBay or Craigslist) here on the forums. After auctions end, though, you're more than welcome to post and discuss them on here. :hello:

By the way, I never came across that. Looks homemade in my opinion. Have you considered to purchase one that is well known? Like a Lights-To-Go sequencer, for example?
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Re: Cheap signal controller

Postby MrE12ax7 on Wed Apr 10, 2013 11:13 pm

LTG is too expensive for me
that seems that it would work
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Re: Cheap signal controller

Postby EPAC-EPIC-MARC on Thu Apr 11, 2013 8:28 am

This seems to be a good alternative for basic control. The only things I can see that may turn you away is the fact you can't adjust the timing...its fixed at the 55 second cycle unless you can reverse-engineer and add components. Don't know how easy that would be or if it would void any warranty tampering with the board. There is also no option to trigger flashing mode operation. But.....if thats not a big deal to you then this works.

I don't know of anyone here who's bought one of those so they haven't been "reviewed" like LTG, Joez Garage, Liberty and other mainstream hobby control boards.
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Re: Cheap signal controller

Postby MrE12ax7 on Thu Apr 11, 2013 9:19 am

EPAC-EPIC-MARC wrote:This seems to be a good alternative for basic control. The only things I can see that may turn you away is the fact you can't adjust the timing...its fixed at the 55 second cycle unless you can reverse-engineer and add components. Don't know how easy that would be or if it would void any warranty tampering with the board. There is also no option to trigger flashing mode operation. But.....if thats not a big deal to you then this works.

I don't know of anyone here who's bought one of those so they haven't been "reviewed" like LTG, Joez Garage, Liberty and other mainstream hobby control boards.

I LOVE to reverse engineer stuff
you could make it adjustable
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Re: Cheap signal controller

Postby EPAC-EPIC-MARC on Thu Apr 11, 2013 9:27 am

MrE12ax7 wrote:
EPAC-EPIC-MARC wrote:This seems to be a good alternative for basic control. The only things I can see that may turn you away is the fact you can't adjust the timing...its fixed at the 55 second cycle unless you can reverse-engineer and add components. Don't know how easy that would be or if it would void any warranty tampering with the board. There is also no option to trigger flashing mode operation. But.....if thats not a big deal to you then this works.

I don't know of anyone here who's bought one of those so they haven't been "reviewed" like LTG, Joez Garage, Liberty and other mainstream hobby control boards.

I LOVE to reverse engineer stuff
you could make it adjustable


If the circuit board inside isn't covered in resin :crazy: Like I said, I haven't messed with this one before, but I'd say for $20 go for it and see what you can do. :good:
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