DiyLightAnimation
Hardware => Lynx USB DMX Dongle => Topic started by: holland lights on December 21, 2011,
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My show keeps stopping after awhile of running for some reason. When i go out where the computer, the green light on the dongle is off every time. Is my dongle going bad?
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your computer is shutting off the com port
Rick R.
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what would cause that?
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Possibly the power saving features?
-Rimist
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if I built everything I had parts for, that'd say 396 channels
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you want to set the power saving features in your Operating system to never turn off the USB devices to save power.
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Well yesterday i checked, i have all of the power setting to never power off, and i have the screen saver set t none. Last night i had the same problem again. So today i took the music cd out of the drive and i have not had a problem since. I am guessing the drive and the dongle is pulling to much or something so the computer turns them off. Never heard of such a thing,but who knows why that would cause an issue.
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laptop, or PC?
home built? or model #?
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Its a hp desktop i refurbished and completely restored to factory new. Its odd the cd rom drive & the dongle was pulling that much that the computer started turning the power off. Rest of the show was fine, the video & sound was still running just fine, just no output of dmx from the dongle being off.
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I am glad to hear you got it figured out. I guess this means I can take the dongle pcb out of my car as it sounds like you do not need it now.
Merry Christmas!
Ron