Just to close out this issue, the only thing I could get to work was to shorten the distance between the controller and the first node. Now I see that there is a V3 out, but I have not tried it yet. Strangely enough, I thought that info was a sticky and saw it last night, but now I do not see that info. Don't know what happened to it, but anyway, wanted to put closure to this...even though it had already been closed for others...just did not remember seeing it.
Thanks for the help,
-Keith