jtweigandt
Well-Known Member
Last night "Elf" Ion board. I had some upstage very bright white christmas trees on their own sub.. Everything running from cues though. Start of show I'm seeing extra spill from under curtain and realize the trees (white lights) are up and on full.
Scanning my environment.. I see the submaster for the trees.. physical fader 10 is down, but the sub is at 100.. the lcd display is showing an up arrow next to the label name, and the bottom light on the bump button is blinking...
Run it up and down.. nothing.. no control.. pressed both buttons.. no control... brief panic ensues.... Finally just deleted the submaster so it wouldn't over ride what was programmed in my cues.
Frustrated, I looked at the submaster list... and even though deleted, it still showed 100 in the box for percentage, but I could not edit. that box.
After the show, I re created the sub.. on the same fader.. and it was there stuck at 100%... Manually ran the sub all the way up and down... and it came back under control and was happy.
So what did I do to cause this.. I'm sure some stray keying, or accidental park? I have some power relays I park at every startup that power projector and LED's
Or was it just the lighting gods reminding me who's in control.. or a cosmic ray hit on the memory chip?
The more I learn about the board, the more I realize I know maybe 10% of it's quirks and capabilities.
Scanning my environment.. I see the submaster for the trees.. physical fader 10 is down, but the sub is at 100.. the lcd display is showing an up arrow next to the label name, and the bottom light on the bump button is blinking...
Run it up and down.. nothing.. no control.. pressed both buttons.. no control... brief panic ensues.... Finally just deleted the submaster so it wouldn't over ride what was programmed in my cues.
Frustrated, I looked at the submaster list... and even though deleted, it still showed 100 in the box for percentage, but I could not edit. that box.
After the show, I re created the sub.. on the same fader.. and it was there stuck at 100%... Manually ran the sub all the way up and down... and it came back under control and was happy.
So what did I do to cause this.. I'm sure some stray keying, or accidental park? I have some power relays I park at every startup that power projector and LED's
Or was it just the lighting gods reminding me who's in control.. or a cosmic ray hit on the memory chip?
The more I learn about the board, the more I realize I know maybe 10% of it's quirks and capabilities.