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Issue between Apollo Scrollers & VL 1000s

Hi all,

I am having issues with some equipment and am completely baffled as to what is happening... any suggestions or input would be helpful.

 

We have a Net2 distribution with EOS control. Coming out of multiple nodes through optosplitters I have 6 VL1000s and 14 Apollo Smart Color 7s.  Whenever we bring the edge on some (not all) of the VLs to 100%, one or two of the scrollers will go through a reset.  The addresses are not over lapping (scrollers are 1-14 and VLs are 100+).  The fixtures do not even have to be on the same data line to cause this problem which would seem to rule out stray signal data bouncing around.

Does anyone have any insight on this???  We work around it by not setting edges to full, but I would like to understand what is going on in my system.  Thanks

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  • I know this is reallllllly late, but:

    How many Smartcolors are on the same power supply? What is the headlength? Are you running return lines?

    I have smartcolors and they seem to be selectively temperamental; sometimes they work just fine without return lines, other times they will reset at random until I run the returns (longer runs, close to a "full" power supply etc) .  I even have one that only likes to be at the end of the daisy chain.

    As far as the connection to the VL1000's, I have no helpful guess, but I find the issue to be particularly interesting.

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  • I know this is reallllllly late, but:

    How many Smartcolors are on the same power supply? What is the headlength? Are you running return lines?

    I have smartcolors and they seem to be selectively temperamental; sometimes they work just fine without return lines, other times they will reset at random until I run the returns (longer runs, close to a "full" power supply etc) .  I even have one that only likes to be at the end of the daisy chain.

    As far as the connection to the VL1000's, I have no helpful guess, but I find the issue to be particularly interesting.

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