theatre4jc
Active Member
I have an 11 fixture VL2500 Spot rig in my room. We run it off a Jands Vista S3. Fixtures were all purchased on May 7/2008 so they have a couple years on them. Here is my issue. One fixture started with the Magenta wheel slipping on it's calibration so suddenly the magenta wheel at 50% was actually no color and no color was full magenta. Resetting the fixture didn't help and recalibrating did nothing. Sensor appeared to be clean and undamaged. So we just adjusted the programming to keep it working as it should because the budget is tight and repairs are only if 100% neccessary (not based on my opinon sadly). Anyway now the dimmer wheel has joined in the fun and is doing something similar, but it's very irradic and unpredicatable. This is the second fixture in my rig to do this and today two other units started showing the same problems. My questions are:
1) what would be the cause of this? PCB board failing?
2) Is this such a common problem that I would now have 4 fixtures in a 5 month period develop the same issue?
3) Should 2 year old fixtures that have been perminately installed and are cleaned regularly be having the same major issue on multiple fixtures that were all purchased the same day?
Advice/help comments?
1) what would be the cause of this? PCB board failing?
2) Is this such a common problem that I would now have 4 fixtures in a 5 month period develop the same issue?
3) Should 2 year old fixtures that have been perminately installed and are cleaned regularly be having the same major issue on multiple fixtures that were all purchased the same day?
Advice/help comments?