Sean Meighan

Hardware => General hardware => Topic started by: rickswa on December 02, 2021, 07:39:37 AM

Title: pixels randomly came on during the night
Post by: rickswa on December 02, 2021, 07:39:37 AM
UPDATE:  I think I may have found my issue.  I went out to make sure they worked and neither arch would do anything.  After looking at the connections, one was wet inside.  I forgot to put the rubber gasket on that one and it seems moisture got in and actually started to rust the V+ prong.  After cleaning and drying it out, they are working normally again. luckily.

Hi All,

I finally got my display going last night and all went well.  Show ended and all was off.  This morning I looked out and 2 of my 4 leaping yard arches were on steady with a muted pastel rainbow color.  I checked the security camera and it looked like about 1:30am they came on.  1 came fully on and the other was just at both ends and they had a flicker to them.  slowly, the other one "filled up" and then they were how I found them this am.  I went out and unplugged the power/receiver box and plugged it back in and everything went back to normal.  They are INK 1003 strips and I run a falcon f16v3 with differential cards.  These arches have a power/receiver box and arch 1+2 share data cable and separate injection and same thing with 3+4 on a different data output.  Arch 3+4 are the ones that came on.  I also run data from this box to a "tune to" pixel sign which has a separate box for power injection but I also connect the grounds between the two power supplies. I've attached a time lapse video of the problem. Any idea what could have caused this?  Thanks for any help.