Lights on after show

[Wayne K]

Got my show back up and running after the pickup truck plowed thru it. But it is doing funky things, the show seems to run ok. But I have random channels on on several of my controllers. I run static 45 minutes before the show and that will act up and act like it locked up. During the night I run a candle show where I have 7 candles along my sidewalk that goes until the morning show comes on. last night about 3:30 got up and several yard things where on and not suppose to be. tonight the static show acted up. Today I came home for lunch and several things where on also.

I went thru and pushed all of the ethernet cables in and out to reseat them. then HW could not find the controllers, green light blinking in controller 1. Ran new cable from house jack to first controller, green light on steady, put on new red adapter and changed com port from 4 to 5. The strange part is it is only on my B network. A network does north side of house, B network does the south side of house. B network has 16 controller on it. every time I check HW all controllers are showing. I thought maybe my candle sequence got corrupt. So I made up a new sequence and it acted up. Also if I disable the show all lights will go off.

Hardware update, Earlier a couple of weeks ago I lost 2 hard drives a week apart. Finally I decided it was a motherboard problem. So my show computer is a new build with new MB. I ended up installing win11 on it. Is there any problems with win11 and LOR?  Do I possibly need to do a reinstall of LOR? The strange thing is that I fired it up Saturday night and it ran fine until last night.

Thanks

Wayne

Edited December 20, 2023 by Wayne K

[Wayne K]

Had show disabled last night, woke up this morning with several channels on. My other half said she woke up and looked out because she seen a flash. She watched for a little while and determined the mt mega tree strobes were on for a little while and then went off and then came back on.

[ebrown1972]

Is your show all AC or do you use pixels. If it's an AC show are you using LED's?

[Wayne K]

No pixels, all ac ctb16pc gen 3 controllers with 3 cmd24 controllers

[TheDucks]

Gen 3 AC controllers should not have the LED glowing issue. They have built in snubbers.

[dgrant]

My first thought is interference along the path that the network cable runs. Is it close to a power cable? Inducted noise will do this. You ran a new cable already which apparently solved part of the issue but other controllers daisy-chained on your network B, have you replaced the other cables too? As violent as the damage that was done to your display, I wouldn't be surprised at other things messed up.

[Wayne K]

Thanks guys for the info

When I got home from work, help desk replied back and said it was a network issue also. So I went out and changed out 5 ethernet cables on the first 6 controllers that I have on the south side. I also unplugged the cables on the controller and plugged back in ( I use the panel mount ethernet ports on the bottom of the controllers so I don't have to feed the cables up thru the holes ) So far the show is running fine. will see if any of the funky stuff happens with the main show and after the main show shuts down and I go to my overnight show. I have been doing this a long time and I don't ever remember this kind of a problem to figure out.

Wayne