2010 Channel Layout Finalized

I am sometimes asked what the schematic looks like for the dispay.  Well, I don't really do one of those, but there is a channel layout that shows what controllers/channels control what display elements.  I spent 8 hours laying it out today and I believe it is finalized. 

We added nine additional controllers from 2009..

2010 Channel Layour (PDF)

One Fan Down - Two More to Go

Alright, one fan completely done. Blue is finished.

This thing really ended up with a LOT of wire on it.  Pretty darn heavy too!

All folded up and ready to go off to storage in the folks' barn.

Two more to go. I am not sure if I will start on the next one right away or do another project in between... this REALLY got monotonous.

Progress on fans - new radio transmitter

It's taking about five hours per color to add the lights to the fans.  I spent the morning working on radio transmitter issues, so I only got half of the clear lights added to the first fan this afternoon.

I have also installed a new FM Transmitter.  This unit supports RDS which will enable me to send the current song playing, etc. to be displayed on the radio in most vehicles.  Since the transmitter is located in the garage and the show computer is in the office, I had to find a way to extend a serial connection from the computer to the rds encoder in the transmitter.  I used a serial over ip adapter to do so.  This converts the RS232 signal to tcp/ip packets which are then decoded by the adapter and sent to the serial port on the transmitter.