Chauvet led steppy dimming

Hey all! Probably been talked about before but I'm having an issue with my Chauvet colordash par quad 18s not dimming smoothly. I believe they're supposed to be 16 bit dimming but the default patch for them is set at 8 bit. When I go to change it to 16 it gets mad at me because I have them all patches one after the other set at 10 channels each so if I switch it to 16 bit it adds an 11th channel. Wondering if there's a work around for this. 

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  • It’s unusual for fixtures at this kind of price point to have 16 bit dimming and their website and full manual doesn’t mention it and the dmx charts as you say don t include a mode that has it.  

    You might find if you adjust the dimming speed  (one of the Params in 10 ch mode) that you might get less steppy results you could set it just when you need it to be slow. Although whether that makes any difference will be whether the D to A convert or that is driving the actual dimmer circuit is internally 16 bit or not.

    i assume the steppy ness is particularly visible when the fixture is at the low end of its output range and/or the colours are at a low value.

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