Flickering lights when no signal and with signal

haydnk

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Hi. Hoping someone can help? This is my first year....

I am getting flickering on my lights when I connect them to my Advatek Mk16ii output, even when output is set to "no signal". When I then send a colour/pattern, I still get "background" flickering. I have the same problem whether I use 12v strips on one bank of outputs or 5v pixels on the other bank. It is happening whether I use a pixel buffer over long distance or without a buffer over a short distance.

Before putting all my lights up, I tested everything with a pixel tester and they were fine.

Any ideas where I should start looking?

WS2811 lights, set at 70% in Advatek. Flickering happens as soon as I power up the board.

Short video attached

Thanks!
 

AAH

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No video to be seen. My 1st 2 thoughts are that maybe you are connected to the clock pin of the board rather than the data and the other thought is that maybe the pixel type is configured wrong.
 

haydnk

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Mmm. Looks like MP4 video isn't acceptable?

Checked out my wires, they seemed correct. Couldnt work it out so I decided to do a factory reset on the board. Seems to have fixed it. Strange? Does the Advatek need resetting on occasion?
 
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