Pixels not working

[Con124]

Hey guys. My mega tree is now up, run into a few issues with the pixels. I’ve used x connect 100 strand pixels from ray wu, I have 3 strands of pixels that seem to have some type of an issue with.

Looks as if the last 50 pixels in a few of the strands are not working & flashing blue or red.

I am using 75 pixels per strip for the tree, with 300 pixels per controller port.

I am also running power injection at the connection between the 2-3 strands.

Anyone got any idea on what may be causing this and any solution?

Thanks in advance.

 

[thewanderingpine]

Are you sure it’s not a channels issue? Do they light up with test mode on the controller?

 

[merryoncherry]

Are you sure it’s not a channels issue? Do they light up with test mode on the controller?

Agree, generally it is also worth plugging the pixels into something else, any tester, to determine whether it is the pixels themselves or the data being sent to the pixels that is to blame.

 

[Con124]

Are you sure it’s not a channels issue? Do they light up with test mode on the controller?

This is on test mode at the moment.

 

[Con124]

This is on test mode at the moment.

They are red in colour and pixels after the red one do not work.

 

[Bumpy2020]

I have spent along time troubleshooting issues, dead pixels and a controller which looks to be dying

 

[merryoncherry]

I have spent along time troubleshooting issues, dead pixels and a controller which looks to be dying

Could be, but other symptoms (all stopping at 50) make me think it is not that bad. Better to test it methodically than guess.

 

[Indigogyre]

Did you swap the bad string with the ports or good strings to see what happens? It m ight not be a port dying but could be how the pigtails are connected to the controller, something might have come loose.

My Halloween show started to have weird issues and it turned out to be due to channel problems because my models somehow changed the length and number of strings when I was making sub-model changes and I never noticed. Sometimes it is best to start from the beginning.

What I did for testing was to remove the megatree model from the controller and just put in simple strait strings of the number of pixels for the port to test.