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    Heather Richards
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Steppy LEDs

I'm sure this has been covered several times already - I'm in a tech heavy day with no time or screen to hunt it down - apologies for the repeat!

I have some house and some rental Rgb LEDs in, and all of them are very steppy looking over longer cues at low intensity.  The designer has seen them behave much more smoothly - Im wondering if my console may be putting out dmx oddly, or if there is a trick besides part cues or discrete timing, or if that's just the way LEDs are.  The house ones are x-focus, rental colour blasts, I'm on an ion with software version 2, and to the best of my knowledge no output/priority settings have been changed since we got it in 2009, and we have net3.  Any advice appreciated!

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  • If the Color Blasts are TRXs, putting them in 16b mode should clean that up.  If they're regular old Colorblasts, you're out of luck.  The 8-bit color blasts are always steppy at low levels on any console I've ever used them on.  You can mess around with DMX refresh rates, which might help with the X-focus units (I've never used those), but I've never found anything that helps.

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  • If the Color Blasts are TRXs, putting them in 16b mode should clean that up.  If they're regular old Colorblasts, you're out of luck.  The 8-bit color blasts are always steppy at low levels on any console I've ever used them on.  You can mess around with DMX refresh rates, which might help with the X-focus units (I've never used those), but I've never found anything that helps.

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