Lamp Off Won't Stay Off

I have a brand new Full Boar, with 40 brand new moving heads, and I'm getting some weird business happening with my control, most specifically Lamp Off commands.
The last three times I've tried to lamp off my arc units after a show, they have lamped off correctly, then lamped right back on after I cleared the programmer. They were definite lamp offs, not just closed shutters/dousers. First I Pig-Released all cues. Then I would lamp off a group, wait 10 or more seconds, clear the programmer, and they would pop right back on. This would happen regardless of lamp/fixture type.
Tonight I tried it 5 or 6 times with the same results, then rebooted the desk.
Same problem, but now they wouldn't lamp off at all. Then I lost all control of the fixtures for a couple of minutes, then the faders with intensity would work but I couldn't grab anything in the programmer (the values would change on the encoders, but the fixtures didn't respond), then the programmer came back online. But I still couldn't lamp off fixtures. During this time I opened the launched processes window a number of times, and all processes appeared to be running normally.
I rebooted the desk a second time, and everything was back to normal. I was able to lamp off the fixtures without issue, and they stayed lamped off.
Again, this has happened three shows in a row, so it appears to be a regularly occurring issue and not just a one time fluke. I was afraid I had perhaps somehow recorded a lamp on command into a cue, but I had released all cues just prior each time, and I'm not sure even how that would be possible with the Hog's control interface.
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  • odd maybe, but i'm going to jump on with Patrick here, happens to me all the time with fade changes left on.

    control commands work fine in the afternoon, switch fade changes on for the show then I can't douse certain fixtures at the end.

    Some will, sorry to be vague, some will close their shutters (as part of the lamp off function), but when the programmer is cleared (or control sent to idle) the lamps remain on.

    Have also had lamps re-strike, after being doused with lampoff, on clearing the programmer, as if the control channel had faded through lampon on it way back to fixture idle.

    have just worked around by turning fade changes off before but as Brad says i would have thought this should not matter.

    cheers
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  • odd maybe, but i'm going to jump on with Patrick here, happens to me all the time with fade changes left on.

    control commands work fine in the afternoon, switch fade changes on for the show then I can't douse certain fixtures at the end.

    Some will, sorry to be vague, some will close their shutters (as part of the lamp off function), but when the programmer is cleared (or control sent to idle) the lamps remain on.

    Have also had lamps re-strike, after being doused with lampoff, on clearing the programmer, as if the control channel had faded through lampon on it way back to fixture idle.

    have just worked around by turning fade changes off before but as Brad says i would have thought this should not matter.

    cheers
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