Greetings,
I posted a question as to whether this issue had been resolved over the weekend against an old thread. That thread is locked from additional posts, so I've started a new thread.
This application is for a school. They have eight Chauvet Colorbank LED's that I want to use as part of a show. These banks are set to have solid RGB mixed outputs for the show, but "flicker" every 30-60 seconds. I believe the flicker is simultaneous across all 8 fixtures, but I would need to confirm that. I'm controlling them with the latest version of ShowXpress using a very new Dell Latitude laptop interfaced with an Xpress 100 USB/DMX device. I've validated that the laptop is not performing any other tasks and CPU utilization does not exceed 10-20% when the issue occurs. The OS is Windows 7, but I've duplicated the problem on two other Windows 7 computers (one laptop and one desktop system) and one Windows XP system (laptop).
We've limited budget and start our competition schedule on February 12th, so my need to resolve this issue is urgent. I'm considering other hardware/software solutions at this time.
I've seen posts about "not having the current software or drivers", Chinese lights, and/or computers that hit 100% CPU utlization. None of those items are relevant to my situation.
Thanks.
--Dave