How does a Light-O-Rama controller work?.
In simple terms, a Light-O-Rama light controller is an automated switch box. It is as if you have a large number of dimmer switches and a person operating each switch. You can slowly slide any dimmer switch up and down and push them on and off at any speed and any intensity. Of course the Light-O-Rama controller does all of this automatically and you really dont see dimmer switches. Light-O-Rama controllers plug into standard AC outlets and have 8 or 16 standard AC output circuits where you can plug in the lights. The controllers also have a connection (like a telephone jack or LAN jack) for a communications wire that is used to send and receive messages. Each controller must know its address so that it only responds to messages meant for it. Usually there are two dial switches on the controller that are used to set the address. We call the address the controllers Unit ID. If you set the Unit ID to 01 on a particular controller then that controller will ignore all messages it sees exce
