Well,
I made some great progress! 3 of the dongles that I had were wired with the RJ48 input cables and 2 of them worked perfectly once I went back thru the instructions and made sure I pulled the program jumper when appropriate. One of the is not working and I will check it out later.
The rest of my dongles have the 4 pin waterproof connectors on them. Someone I got the Data+ and Data- backward on the pigtail I was using for testing. Put them straight and I was able to program all of them but the one I mentioned above.
All and all a productive night. Now I have to finish some pixel arches, figure out how many nodes I have in them and configure the SSC for the correct channels, but the testing tonight was very encouraging!
Thank you everyone who tried to help me thru this! It is always the simple things that throw us off, and if you get aggitated, you just don't think straight!!!
Now I can finish my Merry Christmas Pixel sign, my RGB arches, a couple of Fast Eddy Candles, and a few candy canes. All new elements for next year! They should look cool.
Miike