Invasion of the Ladybugs

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   Just about ready fire up the show this Friday, then this happens.

Noticed a few strings were on when I got home early this morning. Turns out a few ladybugs decided to take up residence - judging from the tiny charcoal briquettes all over the board. Fuse protected itself by burning up the board, and the GFCI did its job by not tripping out until I moved the enclosure.

Luckily, Darryl is shipping out some boards Friday, so the show won't be delayed too badly.

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LightChristmas Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Beta Testers Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Location: Equality, IL Online Status: Offline Posts: 993	Quote Reply Topic: Invasion of the Ladybugs Posted: 23 Nov 2011 at 7:53pm
	Just about ready fire up the show this Friday, then this happens. Noticed a few strings were on when I got home early this morning. Turns out a few ladybugs decided to take up residence - judging from the tiny charcoal briquettes all over the board. Fuse protected itself by burning up the board, and the GFCI did its job by not tripping out until I moved the enclosure. Luckily, Darryl is shipping out some boards Friday, so the show won't be delayed too badly.


deweycooter Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Development Joined: 14 Oct 2007 Location: League City, TX Online Status: Offline Posts: 674	Quote Reply Posted: 23 Nov 2011 at 8:31pm
	Yikes - glad it was only a board.
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LightsOnLogan Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 11 Oct 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3187	Quote Reply Posted: 23 Nov 2011 at 11:31pm
	Yikes! I'm glad that hasn't happened here (yet). I finally got the controllers hooked up today and ran some tests. It looks like my nemesis this year is a bad data cable somewhere to chase down... occasionally some controllers are "winking out" and others are randomly shifting everything by one or two DMX channels (which looks really crazy on the Firefli strings). Michael