DiyLightAnimation
Hardware => Lynx Zeus => Topic started by: loveroflife96 on January 20, 2014,
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Okay...not sure exactly what happened, but my Zeus16 worked flawlessly for 15 days, all the way through Christmas night, but stopped working the day after. I've tried reprogramming each of the channels and the strings flash just as expected. However, once I run my show, the strings don't respond at all. I've check the cat5 connections between the Hub and Zeus by trading out a known working connection. I removed the program bridge so that's not the problem. The LED on the board does light up when power is applied. What would be my next steps to figuring this out? Can the PIC lose programming and yet still accept the programming and flash? Any help would be awesome!
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I would reflash the PICs.
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Make sure you are using the newer utility that does not have the ability to chose ssc. It was causing an issue if you leave it set to SSc and program a Zeus with it. So I remove the choice to fix this.
RJ
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as long as you know for sure that nothing changed with your sequencer, I would start by flashing your pics. once you know all of your pics are right, double and triple check your set up in utility before you hit the button to transmit.
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I was seeing that when I built my Zeus 8's they would flash but when testing in Xlights\Nutcracker nothing re-flashed the pics and they all work fine now.
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Just replaced them with the spares from another kit I hadn't completed yet and it works again!! Thanks for the solution guys!
DJ
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You will still need to reflash those PICs to make them usefull again. If you have a SSC V4, you can use it to hold the PICs while you flash them and the firmware is in the WIKI.
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You will still need to reflash those PICs to make them usefull again. If you have a SSC V4, you can use it to hold the PICs while you flash them and the firmware is in the WIKI.
LOL...you actually answered my question before I asked it!! Was planning on trying to reflash them and use them in another board! Thanks for the info! Love the Zeus..makes everything easy! Wishing now I had invested in some Zeus8s :-)
Duane