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Hardware => Lynx Wireless DMX => Topic started by: sirwesley on September 09, 2010,
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Just looking for some information on what the difference is between the EX/RX and the RX receivers. I think a little PINNED info at the top of this Forum would be helpful, kinda like what RJ did for the SSR4.
Just need a little explanation. I do know the difference between RX and TX, but beyond that, I could use a little more info. Just whenever someone has a chance. Thanx.
-Wesley
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The RX is a standalone receiver and the new one can be both a RX and TX via changing a jumper. The EXRX sometimes also referred to as an LERX is designed to be a daughterboard to attach to an LE. Subsequently it was discovered that by using some judicious wires and a little jumper that it could also be connected kind of like a daughterboard to other boards like the SSR4. I hope I got all that right since I'm still a relative newby.
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Easiest way I have thought about is the following:
Lynx RX - TX - either takes DMX from the dongle via the CAT5 Cable and TX (transmits) it out to your DMX network or RX (receives) DMX information from ANOTHER TX and puts that information out via CAT 5 depending on the jumper selection you have chosen.
Lynx EX - RX - Is basically a RX (receiver) only that is called a "daughterboard" since it requires another PCB to operate. In this case the Lynx EX-RX is used right now to make the Lynx Express, Lynx Aether, and Lynx SSR wireless.
Real world what does this mean.
Well you can have one Lynx RX - TX at a Lynx express in your yard and then use CAT5 to another Lynx Expresses in your network. This essential makes the first jump from your computer to your first Lynx express wireless (not having you find some interesting way to feed CAT5 out of a window or drill a hole). This example would require 2 of the RX / TX's. One to act as the TX and the other RX.
The other example is having on RX - TX to TX (Transmit) the data and have everything in your network (Expresses, Aethers, SSR) utilizing the cheaper EX-RX board to receive the information, making your whole network wireless.
Hope that helps as that is the way I grasped it around my mind to make sense.
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One thing that many are forgetting is that there are currently two versions in the wireless world. The EX/RX in both versions is a daugher board receiver only. When connected as a daugher board on an Express, you can use it to control other devices as well by connecting them to port 2 on the express. When used with the optional connector on other devices such as an SSR4DMX, it can only control the device it is connected to and no other devices down stream. The Ver 1 RX is a stand alone receiver only. It acts like a dongle and you can connect other devices to it as if it were one such as multiple SSR4's, Expresses, ect. The Ver 2 is either a transmitter or a stand alone receiver depending on how you set the jumper and in receiver mode it works just like the Ver 1 RX does.