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I work in a theater with Strand Dimmers, Martin intelligents, 8 Source 4 LED Lekos, 16 Source 4s with Seachangers. About 2 months ago I was having problems with my Seachangers and Lekos ghosting (not the LEDs) slightly... here and there a seachanger would slowly go into a green and back to NC and back to green... (it was always into green, which I thought was weird) or the leko itself would ghost- on, off, on off. Since the problem fixtures were all on the same dimmers I switched them out and that seemed to fix the ghosting for a couple of weeks.
A few weeks ago, a different set of lekos started ghosting, BADLY. It looked like a disco in there because of how they were flashing - and within two days it was ALL the non-led S4s. The only way to stop it was to turn the dimmers off. I switched out all the dimmers with the problem lekos - only this time no fix.
I read on other forums that sometimes an optosplitter can cause this. We have splitters, and I have yet to see if the lekos are all on the same splitter (I imagine that to be the case though). Because I switched out the dimmers and I'm fairly certain it's not the cabling, it seems the optosplitter is a good bed.
If it IS the optosplitter, what are my choices - repair or replace?
If it's NOT the splitter - any other advice?
Thanks!
I work in a theater with Strand Dimmers, Martin intelligents, 8 Source 4 LED Lekos, 16 Source 4s with Seachangers. About 2 months ago I was having problems with my Seachangers and Lekos ghosting (not the LEDs) slightly... here and there a seachanger would slowly go into a green and back to NC and back to green... (it was always into green, which I thought was weird) or the leko itself would ghost- on, off, on off. Since the problem fixtures were all on the same dimmers I switched them out and that seemed to fix the ghosting for a couple of weeks.
A few weeks ago, a different set of lekos started ghosting, BADLY. It looked like a disco in there because of how they were flashing - and within two days it was ALL the non-led S4s. The only way to stop it was to turn the dimmers off. I switched out all the dimmers with the problem lekos - only this time no fix.
I read on other forums that sometimes an optosplitter can cause this. We have splitters, and I have yet to see if the lekos are all on the same splitter (I imagine that to be the case though). Because I switched out the dimmers and I'm fairly certain it's not the cabling, it seems the optosplitter is a good bed.
If it IS the optosplitter, what are my choices - repair or replace?
If it's NOT the splitter - any other advice?
Thanks!