BINGO!!!! Found the short cut, was a manual solder on the other side and not a SMD :P
Yes, I swapped the diode; the diode is fairly large so there was not a problem to reverse it.
Now it is working and the colors are awesome, but still run from channel 1 to 4, so far I didn’t have luck programming it to be used in another channel, neither with the Lynx Address utility or with Vixen.
If I leave the jumper on “Oper” instead “Prog” and run Lynx Utility and click on program I can see the Aether responding to DMX since I press stop button change the start channel and press program again then the Aether LEDs change to the intensity set by the start channel, so DMX to the board is good, also tried with Vixen and I can control individually the channels from 1 – 4 and no problem.
Now turn off Aether
Change jumper to “Prog”
Press “Program” (DMX flows)
Turn On Aether, (6 LEDs are blue at full intensity)
Wait 5 seconds
Turn Off Aether
Change Jumper to “Oper”
Turn On Aether and still responding to DMX channel 1. :(
Lets switch to troubleshooting thread to do not hijack this thread.
Cas.
BINGO again!!!
I was using SSR method with the Lynx Adress utility and was a not go.
Then I tried LE Manual Program method with Lynx LE Utility 1.0 and it worked ;D
Looks like the difference in the two methods is that the LE method requires to push the Program button AFTER the aether is turn on on PRG mode and not BEFORE, SSR method does it in the other way.
So.. Everything is good now.
I'll put everything in the case and make it wireless.
Also I got the lens like 2 months ago and they work really nice.
Thanks for the support, and lets the Aether shine this year.
Cas.