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Ion intensity levels not changing in cues

First show with the new board (our first Ion)...

 

We're running some conventionals, some D40s and 2 VL1100s for a play.  The problem is that the intensity levels for the VLs and conventionals are not changing as programmed. We can go into Blind Spreadsheet and see that the cues have the recorded levels, which do change, but when we run the cues (using Go key), the Intensities on them doesn't change. 

 

NIPs are changing on VLs and D40s, and I think (but wouldn't swear to it) that the D40s Intensities are changing.

 

I must be in some weird mode, and a lot of head banging trial and error as well as web research has not helped. Any suggestions for things to check/do ?

 

Thanks in advance!

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  • Are the channels parked, maybe?  In the channel tombstone display, is there a little white p in the lower left corner?

    So, you have recorded your cues with different channel levels. On playback, with nothing captured or (red) manual channels, the channels are staying at the same level at the fixture, but changing in the console value? Can you select a channel and roll it up & down on the wheel?

     

  • in reply to Gern

    Thanks for the reply, Gern.

    I'm not at the board now, but I doubt the channels are parked; I don't see how they could be (although weird stuff can happen, and I'm not the only one who's been at the board). I'll check that first thing tomorrow. I don't recall any "p" in the tombstones, and I looked at them a lot. 

    No, the INT values displayed on screen are not changing either, when Going from cue to cue. Yes, you can select a channel and manually change the INT (which makes the lamps go up and down).

     

    The colors on the Intensity values change as the cues progress, but the levels don't change.

  • in reply to Tripp3

    This sounds a lot like the master playback pair (above the GO button) aren't in the right position - they should both be up at full for normal, non-manual cue operation. In this case, it sounds like they're both down at zero.

    If they are already at full, go ahead and run them down and up a couple of times to see if there's something wrong with the potentiometers. 

  • in reply to Hans.Hinrichsen

    Thanks, Hans. I'll check that first thing.

     

    One thing I noted that seemed odd: in the cue spreadsheet, the first cue with any data on it was marked as Manual (I believe it was in the Time column), but all the others had default times, I think, of 5. That Manual listing didn't make sense to me.

  • in reply to Tripp3

    The bad news: I wasted so much time on this.

    The good news: the problem was simply that the two faders (crossfaders) above the STOP/BACK button were down (i.e., closest to the button) rather than up (i.e., closest to the Load button). 

    That's all there was too it.

    Thanks to Hans and Gern for writing. I hope this post will help someone in the future!

  • in reply to Tripp3

    Thanks! It helped me. My faders were down too! And that was all to it... Wasted so many hours trying to figure the thing out... 

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