stumpylampshades
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So my high school has a more or less static plot that's fully LED based. All these fixtures were installed during a remodel that took place 2014-2015 and have been more or less untouched since then, besides by me (a high school senior) and one other person who does not work here anymore. More or less safe to say besides like two fixtures that are strangely aimed it's the same as it was in 2015. Over this current school year, a couple of our lights have been dramatically failing, where they start rapidly flashing through colors at full intensity and/or stay locked with one LED color at like 25-100% intensity, all Altman fixtures, though not always the same type (We've had 3 Spectra Star Pars and one SS Cyc do this so far). In addition the LCD that should display the DMX channel/other config options displays rapidly changing nonsense as well. When they do this they almost always take out the DMX signaling for the entire chain they're in, ahead and behind, making me thing they're spewing garbage data/signals on the line. They do this when left on after anywhere between 30 minutes and 8 hours, but if connected to power the problem fixtures will eventually do this.
Do y'all have any idea what might be going on and what we can do to fix it? If they need to go in for repair, where would we send them? (Minneapolis, MN Area). Any help y'all can provide would be wonderful, as I'm literally the only person in the building (and among less than like 3 people AT MOST in the entire district) with any idea what this stuff is and how to properly use it.
Do y'all have any idea what might be going on and what we can do to fix it? If they need to go in for repair, where would we send them? (Minneapolis, MN Area). Any help y'all can provide would be wonderful, as I'm literally the only person in the building (and among less than like 3 people AT MOST in the entire district) with any idea what this stuff is and how to properly use it.