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Hardware => Lynx USB DMX Dongle => Topic started by: frankr on December 03, 2010,
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Hello all,
I had one of my D-light usb->RS485 adapters give up the ghost on me and I am scrambling to find a solution. The show goes live Tomorrow and I can not run a segment due to the lose of this connector.
So this leads to the question:
Can the Lynx dongle be used to send generic RS485 or will it only be able to send DMX? I realize that DMX is run over RS485 but I believe that the dongle is doing some "value add" by buffering the data and ensuring a smooth DMX stream. I would think that the LOR protocol data would not function properly with that buffering stream.
Any thoughts? Has there ever been a firmware load for the dongle that would accommodate this?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Frank
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No it can not. The dongle is a dedicated DMX device it is not like a Enttec Open which is just a RS 485 convertor and the computer does the work. The dongle creates DMX itself and only gets update data from the Computer.
RJ
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Thanks RJ
That was kind of what I thought. I have back-up dongles but no backup on the RS485 adapters...
Frank