Color chase effect works normally on some fixtures with deep colors, but only produces pastels on others.

Question

For the normal fixtures, the color picker (only while the effect is running) has what looks like a clock face with the blue dot in the middle, and the "second hand" sweeping around counter clockwise, hitting all the colors. On the misbehaving fixtures, the color picker blue dot is hard against the edge of the "color swoop", and no sweeping effect. Is this related? Fixtures are a mix of Colorsource spot and older Source4 LED with cyc adapter. The ones with the cyc adapter seem to be the most troublesome. I understand how there can be color blending on the cyc itself, so I looked directly into the fixtures exit and saw only pastels there also.

eos moderator · Answer

The important thing to note about effect 913 is that as linear effect it depends on a chanel's background level. This is the state the channel would have if the effect wasn't running. The effect types Linear, Focus and Color are all relative effects and behave this way. If you start this effect on a channel that's currently red and one that's currently blue they will produce different results.