I know its been a while since I have talked much about this project, but I have been busily working on it for the past few months.
I believe I last left you off in Part 1 with Pictures of my FM Transmitter assembly completed. Since then I have assembled my Light-O-Rama [LOR] Controllers, pulled power and signal wires, Built and mounted enclosures, and sequenced some songs.
Well some info on the assembly of the controllers. For me they weren't to hard although I did flip one of the resistor packs during the assembly and had to remove it and put it back on. They are pretty straight forward and LOR's Instructions are great. Here is the link to buy the kit or the pre-assembled versions.
Here is a picture of one of my completed controllers. Currently only the low power heatsinks are installed. The low power heatsinks are initially used to place all the Triacs, due to the fact that the higher power heatsinks cover the bottom of the board and you can't solder the pins. My recommendation is to get the higher power heat sinks its only 10 bucks more.
Next up are a couple pictures of the cute little USB to RS-485 Serial converter. This is the unpowered version that is not supposed to get very far down the cable. But I can say it goes at least 80 feet.
How to build and mount a LOR board Enclosure (click for larger images)
First step: Aquire Box
Step two: Open box
Step three: drill 4 holes, add 4 screws and 12 nuts... (jason, stella, robogeek,...) I only listed 3 nuts but figured you could decided what other nuts you wanted.
Step four: drill 2 holes for cable light control exit points, Sorry No pics taken at this step, You will be able to see them in the completed case pictures.
Step five: Install controller in enclosure using 4 more nuts. The Nuts' identity will be ommitted here to protect the innocent guilty.
Step six: Drill holes in wall of house being careful not to break the drill bit. Then mount enclosure on side of house.
Step seven: Terminate Power and data lines in the box. You might notice that I had to splice a standard network cable on the end of my data lines, I used mil spec wire because it want under ground and I had it, the insulation was just to big to fit into the Modular Jack. You can see the holes added for the output pass throughs at the bottom of the enclosure. There is one more step of adding all the output cables but that will come later.
Now onto sequencing I have been going through all of my christmas music and picking some good songs to "Sequence" Currently I have the Intro Sequence and 5 Songs done, they take about 3-5 hours to sequence. basically 1 hour per minute of music, sometimes more sometimes less depending on the complexity. Since I have 2 controllers I have 32 channels of Blinking light goodness. Here are a couple youtube links of sequences I have done to wet your appitite for those blinking lights.
I know its been a while since I have talked much about this project, but I have been busily working on it for the past few months. 
