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Daisy chained LED failure

I have no capability to have colored lights on my stage, but everything worked great for the past 5 years.  Maybe you can help me troubleshoot my issue? 

I am using an ETC Element...at least 10 years old, though it may be older.  For the past 5 years that I have been at this school, I have 12 Lustr LEDs daisy chained together that have worked beautifully. I had them programmed to submasters 31-34, and the channels are 101-104. They were programmed red, green, blue, and white, respectively. 

In March, a student "accidentally" parked numerous fixtures, and I had to figure out A) what "parked" meant and B) how to "unpark" them. I don't remember noticing if any of those were the LEDs.

  Since that time, a few of the LEDs come on with my "ALL STAGE"  submaster, but only intermittently.  Sometimes none will turn on, and sometimes I get 2 or 3.   None of the submasters 31-34 (which used to be the colored lights) work to bring up the LEDs at all.  I have tried reprogramming the subs, to no avail.

 I did get the  tech teacher to come try to fix the issue as well, with ETC tech support on the phone.  In PATCH, the addresses show as 2/1-8 for 101, 2/9-16 for 102, 2/17-24 for 103, and 2/25-32 for 104.   The ETC tech support person that we talked to about 2 weeks ago said that these addresses needed to be changed, but I'm not sure why since it has worked fine this way for the past 5 years.

P.S. I am a junior high Theatre teacher with an older auditorium in what used to be the high school.  I don't have a lot of lighting experience, but I've been trying to troubleshoot the issue on my own since mid-March. 

What should I try next?  Could it be a park issue or a hardware/cabling thing?  Or something else entirely?  

Thanks in advance!!!

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  • When you say the desk, do you mean the lighting console? I will try that.

    101 is patched to address 2/1-8, when I look at Patch. I'm assuming that the 2 refers to universe 2?

    With the color picker, I've followed the directions from the manual and still no dice.

    I'll try what you suggested and get back to you. We're doing state testing right now. :)
  • in reply to SLeisher
    It sounds as if you don't move or change the fixtures much. One of the advantages of an old console is that you probably have years worth of old files on it. Every time you save a show it makes a new file!

    If that's so then you can go back to an old show file and see if they work that way. If so then it's all software, if not there might be a hardware issue.
  • in reply to RickR
    I did, indeed, go back through and load the old files one by one to see if that might help. Same issue, which makes me think it's either A) an issue caused by parking/unpacking, B) a cabling issue, or C) something else the student or I did when trying to fix the situation....In which case, an old show file should fix the problem, correct?
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  • in reply to RickR
    I did, indeed, go back through and load the old files one by one to see if that might help. Same issue, which makes me think it's either A) an issue caused by parking/unpacking, B) a cabling issue, or C) something else the student or I did when trying to fix the situation....In which case, an old show file should fix the problem, correct?
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