I know that David / dmoore (You are not allowed to view links.
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I'm trying to remember, but it seems like LSP probably allows you to alter the intensity curve ... which could be a way to adjust the fading characteristics?
Don't get me wrong, I'm totally thrilled with my SS items this year, but like Jeff said ... incan. and LED don't mix so great ... thats a true statement. I planned RGB LED to be the icing on the cake and not the cake ... and in that role, I felt worked pretty well. The tough part now is making a bigger jump into RGB or dumb RGB (not worth the small cost savings, IMHO) ... and I just can't see being able to do that financially.
So for now, I'm going to try and do just a minimal upgrade in 2012 (finish stuff I didn't quite get done in 2011) and hope my incand. lights still look good. I haven't been able to buy any mini lights on clearance the last couple years ... so the writing is on the wall for incans!!
Some of my Holdman fades (on a C9 based star) just didn't translate well on SS star items I built .. so what might have looked pretty cool in incan. looks fairly broken on a SS item with identical programming. Again, I didn't have time to fix the sequencing and the average viewer probably didn't know or care. So as other said, we are the worst critics out there.