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Well it was strange.

I ran the SD + interface, ran Compu Show, brought up a scene and my lights all flickered, as if strobbing as fast as they could. I didn't have time to isolate the problem as to which type of lights were doing it, and since I couldn't fix it immediately, I had to dump Compu Show.

Signal Chain:
SD+ to Elation OptoBranch/4.
OptoBranch/4 down a 200' AccuCable 3-wire DMX cable.
Went to 4 Mega Panels, then to 4 64 LED Pros, then through 8 Mega Bar 50's and finally into 4 more 64 LED Pros that had a DMX terminator at the end.

Using MyDMX with the same interface, I had no issues. So, it's not the lights, it's not the interface, it's not the cabling, it's not the distro/splitter, it's either Compu Show itself OR something I'm not doing right in Compu Show. It is VERY likely it is a ME issue, having possibly done something wrong in Compu Show.

Again, I did not bother to go check and see if all the lights were flickering like this. I saw problems and went into fail-over mode.

I'm going to set up some lights to play with so I can actually see what's going on in case the 3D Visualizer isn't able to show me what I need to see.

2/2/1111:01 PM

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Jingles8302Admin

Wow. That's very strange. I'd want to take a look at your saved shw file. Hit me up on yahoo later this week or weekend.
Sincerely,

Sounds like a plan.

I'm hoping it's something I overlooked. Having lights actually set up to confirm with will be a major help just for sanity purposes.

2/3/118:39 AM

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