This looks very familiar to a controller of a string of 9 snowflakes I experimented with last year...
I don't know if this helps but here is a quote from my reply in another thread...
48 Fun / The Porch / Re: SPT-1 polarized plugs on: January 25, 2010,
The best I could do this year was to buy the "snowflake icicle lights" strings. They are a string of 9 snowflakes with three big flakes and 6 smaller flakes on the string. They come with an 8 function controller built in. They are made by "Grandlite Co." They come in a mostly red box and the manufacturer is not mentioned on the box. You have to look on the little controller to find out the manufacturer. I think I bought them at Lowes.
Anyway, I was able to find that they are made of up of three circuits of three snowflakes each - one big one and two smaller ones on each circuit. Each circuit will have three flakes operating together at one time and they are arranged in an alternating pattern - 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3. This makes it great for chases!
The controller uses 6 conductors connected to the string. The first two conductors labeled A C are connected to the power plug and is daisy chained directly to male plug (feeding the controller) and to the female plug at the end of the light string for connecting other strings to it.
The other four conductors are power for each of the three circuits and one "neutral" for return of all three strings!
These are controllable by the LE but I had to be EXTREMELY careful about the polarization of wiring from the controller all the way to the string. Controlling these are not for the faint hearted but very satisfying once the leap is made.
I do NOT recommend doing this unless you know what you are doing but I had a great time making it all work...and yes I did blow out two channels (SSRs) out of 42 on the LEs by hooking them up wrong (had the hot and neutral reversed at the terminal block on the LE).
If you are adventurous, it turned out to be a great and very flexible outline lighting effect.
--my two cents worth--
-Paul
