- Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:23 am
#95859
I'm sorry for not being clearer...my common wires are all white and the bundle of station wires are genereally all red. So I know at every point which is my common and it spiders to every manifold in the system.
The more information I have, the crazier this project seems. I have a multi-trunking common that runs everywhere with multiple stubs going all over. The electrical weight of 3000' of wire is probably a great obstacle to overcome.
At this point, I'm thinking of just using a sender unit that can know what station it is supposed to be (1-99) that can be triggered by an Xbee master unit which will then be able to read which wire just turned on, probably by lighting an LED. The cost is greater, but the prototyping will be easier (he says knowing nothing of XBee and Arduino programming).
I really appreciate everyone's help.
The more information I have, the crazier this project seems. I have a multi-trunking common that runs everywhere with multiple stubs going all over. The electrical weight of 3000' of wire is probably a great obstacle to overcome.
At this point, I'm thinking of just using a sender unit that can know what station it is supposed to be (1-99) that can be triggered by an Xbee master unit which will then be able to read which wire just turned on, probably by lighting an LED. The cost is greater, but the prototyping will be easier (he says knowing nothing of XBee and Arduino programming).
I really appreciate everyone's help.