anything? any help would be great? i dont understand why it would show dmx output but not controlling the lights? should i try another pic?
I haven't seen the first pic. (ahhh... you mean PIC. and I was looking for the pic-ture.
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Do you have another dongle that you can use to substitute and demonstrate everything is working?
Ideally, you have a working config that allows you to know for certain that you have good cabling, a good computer setup, a good dongle, and a good controller.
Since you had it working before, it seems unlikely to be a soldering problem, but maybe something happened to the mr16 and it lost its working channel configuration...
if you see activity on the dongle LED, I'd start from the controller side and work back to the dongle -- instead of the computer side towards the dongle.