Ion keeps turning on workers even after unpatching

I would start by identifying your control source and double check that it is in fact your ION. After that, look at the about section in the CIA for where the channels/addresses are being used. Based on your description of the issue occurring during startup I would suspect a startup macro is at play, activating your work lights. Startup macros are at the console level before the show file. It is incredibly unlikely and rare, though not impossible, for a console to do things on its own. It needs input in order to output.

I would start by identifying your control source and double check that it is in fact your ION. After that, look at the about section in the CIA for where the channels/addresses are being used. Based on your description of the issue occurring during startup I would suspect a startup macro is at play, activating your work lights. Startup macros are at the console level before the show file. It is incredibly unlikely and rare, though not impossible, for a console to do things on its own. It needs input in order to output.