Guest guest Posted May 27, 2007 Share Posted May 27, 2007 HelloI'm putting together a light show for a Summer party and I'm having trouble with a couple channels. They worked fine last night, but now box 1 channel 16 stays on dim and box 3 channel 2 stays on dim even when the system is not running. I've reset each box and nothing seems to turn off the power to these channels, other than unplugging the box. I also tried a different set of lights on these channels with the same outcome. Any help would be great.Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 27, 2007 Share Posted May 27, 2007 How are they plugged in? Are the 2 cards plugged into to different legs or breakers? Sometimes that can cause a problem.Just my thoughts,Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 28, 2007 Share Posted May 28, 2007 Same thing happened to me. Contact LOR and they will fix your board pronto. In my case, an optical sensor for one of the triacs was bad. I emailed the support group, and they turned it around very fast!Jerry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 28, 2007 Share Posted May 28, 2007 This happened to me on several channels of LEDs on one box last year. Eventually I found that the polarity on the outlet was reversed. Once I fixed that, the problem went away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 28, 2007 Share Posted May 28, 2007 I ran three extention cords to the boxes two boxes on one circuit/breaker and box three on another breaker/circuit. Then I tried swtching the power cords around but every time I plugged box 1 and box 3 in the two channels came on at a low intensity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 28, 2007 Share Posted May 28, 2007 ChuckHutchings wrote: This happened to me on several channels of LEDs on one box last year. Eventually I found that the polarity on the outlet was reversed. Once I fixed that, the problem went away.How do I find out if the polarity is reversed? The whole thing worked correct for a day with the plug-ins the way they are. Then this problem happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 28, 2007 Share Posted May 28, 2007 OC Jerry wrote: Same thing happened to me. Contact LOR and they will fix your board pronto. In my case, an optical sensor for one of the triacs was bad. I emailed the support group, and they turned it around very fast!Jerry.The triac could be bad? That would be a bummer. I hate to have to unplug everything to get the units repaired.Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 28, 2007 Share Posted May 28, 2007 C. McGough wrote: ChuckHutchings wrote: This happened to me on several channels of LEDs on one box last year. Eventually I found that the polarity on the outlet was reversed. Once I fixed that, the problem went away.How do I find out if the polarity is reversed? The whole thing worked correct for a day with the plug-ins the way they are. Then this problem happened.Mine worked fine for a while as well. I didn't notice it until a very damp night when conditions were better to cause the problem.The easiet way to test it (if you don't have a proper tester) is to grab a UPS unit off you PC or TV. On the back is usually an LED that lights up if the polarity is reversed or the ground is bad. Just plug the UPS into the outlet and see if the LED lights up. (Note that some power strips have this LED as well.)Edit: If the only lights you're having problems with are LEDs then I suspect this could be your problem. If they are regular incandescents, I doubt that enough power will leak to ground to be visually detectable.But I could be wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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