Hi, not sure if you guys can help me out with this or not. Have hired in a showled classic starcloth (www.showled.com) for a show and have used similar starcloths before. The cloth comes in two parts with two connected controllers, one set up as master and the other as slave. The problem I have is that the slave part of the cloth 'flickers' as if it is getting s spurious DMX signal... this does not happen on the master.
Now I know you're wondering why I'm posting on the EOS / ION forum but we have gone through everything to eliminate the problem. Replacing cables, swapping controllers, putting new controllers in, changing DMX splitters, using different universes on the ION, updating software, creating a fixture for it, running it of dimmer channels all to no avail until I tried a different console and the flicker stopped. Then using exactly the same cables re-connected it to the ION and the flicker came back.
So does anybody have any ideas why the dmx output on the ion is causing a flicker on the starcloth?!
Due to the show opening on tuesday we've worked around it by giving each half of the starcloth its own dmx and putting them both in Master operation. Obviously this isn't ideal as some productions may use several controllers and giving each of them independent dmx isn't very practicable.
Thanks for your time,
andy
