I will be placing my order SS next month but with so many people having trouble I am nerves about ordering. Have we decided if its the strings, software, hardware or what? I won't have hrs and hrs to trouble shoot them. I need to start programming my show.
David
Which issue are we talking about. There were a bad batch of strings made but my understanding is they were replaced if the people asked them to be.
Some strings from that batch have bad nodes. So that is the strings. Feedback from the later batches that have been posted seem to be positive.
I just updated the vixen plugin to resolve an issue some users were seeing. Everyone that has responded says it has taken care of it.
I will again this year be using them and I have over double the number. IF you are using LSP they are still working out the bugs in the plugin but he should knock that out in no time now that I sent him some hardware to test with.
You have to remember that over 150,000 nodes of SS has been sold and almost 4000 controllers. you will always see post of people having issues. They do not need to post when it works the first time. I am helping someone with 3 expresses that they built that do not work. I think everyone would agree there is no serious issues with Expresses.
I bought $8000 of standard leds from a place I got them from before. These would burst into flames on a regular basis. There is always a chance for a issue but if they take care of them then it is just a inconveiance. Thats why the escrow is setup. Make sure you have them, look them over and test them before accepting so you can send them back and not pay if they are bad.
If your nervous start slow by doing some this year so you learn and then you will be ready for next year. Even just a couple of strings will get your feet wet and help you understand how to design and seqence RGB next year.
RJ