Are there any known bugs with EPARs that would make them have a faint green light, even when the level is taken down completely? I have 2 lights in a chain of 6 EPARs that have this behavior.
Here's my setup:
The EPAR QWs are in 6-channel mode, and they all addressed to the same channel. Power is daisy-chained between all 6 lights, as is data. I have 10 foot DMX cables between each fixture, and a 100 foot cable running from the first fixture to a Strand dimmer pack. There is an American DJ terminator on the DMX out of the last fixture.
At first I thought this was a cable-length issue, so I swapped out my original 25 foot cables between the fixtures for the 10 foot ones. I swapped out the 100 foot cable for a 50 foot one, too, but the problem didn't go away. I ran the cable directly to my board, taking the dimmer pack out of the equation, and that didn't work. The ghost lighting is happening on fixtures 4 and 5 in the chain. I removed 4 from the chain and sent data from 3 to 5, and the ghosting moved to 3 and 5, briefly. I tried swapping the order of 5 and 6 in the chain and that didn't help.
I am at a total loss. I don't think there are any more variables to try. Incidentally, I first noticed the problem before I hung the lights, and was testing them on the ground. I decided to hang them because, once or twice, I got the lights to behave properly after a power cycle. But then once I hung the lights and plugged them into power, the problem happened again.
Anyone else experience this or have any ideas what I should try next?
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