dougd Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 I have a mega tree with 96 strands of LED's. 24 each of 4 colors. 16 channels dedicated to the tree. I hooked it up this past weekend and it worked perfectly. Tonite as I was doing some final checks for the season, I had all 13 controllers turned on. I noticed that 2 channels on the mega tree stayed lit all the time. Both were green. I thought it was strange that this problem didnt show up till tonite.I hooked up a set of mini lights to one of the channels and it went out. On the other channel I hooked up 2 sets of minis and it still remained lit. I searched around the forum and tried to read and solve the problem all I cound find as an answer was to load down the channel. I would think that 2 sets of minis would be enough of a load. Does this indicate that there is something wrong with that channel? The controllers are all CTB16PC's.I haven't done any troubleshooting on it yet besides loading down the circuit. Any help would be greatly appriciated. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwixmas Posted November 30, 2008 Share Posted November 30, 2008 I am in the same boat channels staying on from first power up .reset channels as from other querries no diference . other channels seem to stick on for awhile after turn off . but i use c7 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwixmas Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 thanks for that jeff , but I think I have fixed it by powering off taking the jumper out powering up for 5/6 sec and then replacing the jumper . Amazing when you leave it and comeback fresh ideas t5he next day !!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mstaffeld Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 Some of our LED channels stay on also. These are channels that have a "flex-plug"?I'm thinking that they may not be drawing enough current to 'open' the triac. I'm going to try adding a strand of minis to see if that will fix it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponddude Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 mstaffeld wrote:Some of our LED channels stay on also. These are channels that have a "flex-plug"? I'm thinking that they may not be drawing enough current to 'open' the triac. I'm going to try adding a strand of minis to see if that will fix it. You are 100% correct. Adding the mini's will certainly help, or you could make a terminator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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