Hey Les1,
I see that some people responded in a very generic way that doesn't really help, then the topic strayed. Next time, also post what the
LED instrument is so we can help you better. Some older
LED parcans have a master
dimmer channel that is broken up into sections. 0 to 30% is dimming, 31 to 60% is
strobe, 61 to 95% some other random
strobe, and then 100% is open full....
etc......
This could be one reason you have problems.
Many
LED lights have several settings in how you run them: 3
channel, 4
channel, up to 7.....20! Make sure you don't have some other
channel up even at a low
level. Many times I've had a light freaking out on me: strobing, changing colors...when it turned out the light was only doing what it was told to do. Double check your settings.
I work many shows with a large
LED inventory and I have found that if I put a
submaster with all my
LED gear's master
dimmer at full, then keep that
submaster up all the time, during programming and even productions, it will get rid of any random flicker. Then the dimming is all done with just the color channels. It can make it harder to do a live show because it takes 3 faders to go to black rather than one, but I have found it is safer in production value. I just don't use the lights
dimmer channel at all.
Hope that helps.
Ken Pogin
Production / Tour Manager
Minnesota Ballet