bob_moody Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 (edited) Okay so I have seen this myself... It was usually reported by family memeber that out of the blue in the middle of the night, long after the show ends random lights will flash in the diplay .. Now tonight, the show ends and there is one lone mini-tree (1 of 28) that has a near shimmer quality to it of varying intensity. submitting another shut down command (immed) didnt fix the problem ... First time since 2005 have I have had issues other than the afore mentioned phatom flashes out of the blue ... Any ideas on where to start? I never shut down power to the system, the show ends and its off.. BobUPDATE: I powered off the entire display, and powered it back on.. This reset the stuck channel and all is off... Still wondering why... Edited December 23, 2012 by bob_moody Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_moody Posted December 23, 2012 Author Share Posted December 23, 2012 (edited) Turns out I updated to quickly... I powered off the mains for about 10 seconds then re-energized...It appeared to stay off but the ghost channel came back ... I shot a quick video of the issue .. Notice the tree is on .. then goes off.. there are several seconds of off, then is shimmers back to on again... this behavior repeats itself ... I'm hoping the video may help in decoding the issue ... Maybe a triac going bad? Since the controller was powered off and back on .. It seemed to start doing this again when I enabled the shows... here is the link to the vid on Vimeo... http://vimeo.com/56184158(I hope this works .. Vimeo changed things up a bit on me .. )BobNote .. again...I rebooted the laptop the display runs from .. this appears to have resolved the issue??? still not 100% sure.. Edited December 23, 2012 by bob_moody Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_moody Posted December 23, 2012 Author Share Posted December 23, 2012 Looked out the window around 4:30 .... Mini-Tree was on and shining bright.,....It was however.. just on... it wasnt fading in and out like in the vid .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wbottomley Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 If it's stuck on, not responding to commands, sure bet it's a bad triac. If it does respond to commands, check all communication cables. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_moody Posted December 23, 2012 Author Share Posted December 23, 2012 Thank you, I will start there this morning...I just found the behavior really odd...first what you see in the vid .. then after a powering off the system and rebooting the PC.It was off and staying off until sometime in the night it turned back on but was not doing the fade in/out shimmering death roll...it was just on ...I'll pull up the HWU and send it commands and verify channel operations...Appreciate the feedback ..Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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