Using the Christmas in a Box Expansion Conroller
Christmas
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If your display requires more power than one Christmas in
a Box light controller can hold, you can easily add multiple
light controllers to your display with the Christmas in a Box
Expansion Light Controller, which is sold separately. You add an
expansion controller into your display by “daisy chaining” it to
your initical Christmas in a Box controller with a CAT 5 network
cable as shown below.
Christmas
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Christmas
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INITIAL
CONTROLLER
EXPANSION
CONTROLLER
1) CONNECTION:
Locate the RJ45 jacks inside each of your light
controllers. Connect one end of a CAT5 network cable into the open RJ45
jack of your initial controller. Run the other end of the cable out of the hole
in the bottom of the box and into a hole on the bottom of the expansion
controller. Plug that end into one of the available RJ45 jacks on your
expansion controller.
2) ADDRESSING:
Locate the two dials on the same board as the RJ45 jacks
that say “A1” and “A0” on them. Be sure “A1” is always set to “0.” The other
dial (“A0”) should be set sequentially. For example, the first controller should
be “0,” the second controller “1,” the third controller “2,” etc.
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