RJ,

Why in the world would you create another SSR when we have so many good designs already?

Well they are a few good reasons I felt like creating a new SSR. First while the current designs are good they do not really have any good enclosures that they fit into well. They require you to engineer them into something and while some folks are really good at making them nice and even weather resistant, it is work and didn’t have the clean look I was looking for.

So the first thing is I started with the case. With help from others I was put on to a nice yet very small case. This case has rubber seals for the cables to exit through. It is hinged top for access and can be locked. It cost about $3.50 in quanitity and $4 in low quanitity. I like the neat weather tight setup I am going to desolder all the parts off of my SSR’s and use them on these for my Freestyle this year.

But the real reason I did it was so that I could design a SSR that was the same parts and board cost as the standard ones, but gave the user the ability to add some extra parts for a few dollars more at anytime to make it a complete 4 channel DMX controller with internal SSR. So it is a SSR + (4). This is what I wanted for my mini trees. I will put 16 of these out, one under each mini tree and I will have the four channels to run the colors on the tree. These are small enough to hide under a mini tree easy and then I can use one cable daisied between all my mini trees (DMX) and not have to run 16 cables out to the mini trees at the extreme edge of the yard.

The unit is complete with its own tiny power supply and so like the other Lynx items you just plug it into power and plug your DMX feed into it.  I think this adds another nice device to our family of holiday light control.

RJ