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Xmove's not staying on correct position

FM Former Member
After spending hours of setting up steps and scenes using mydmx I continually am having problems with my x-moves not returning to their set positions in all my scenes. It seems that I set them up, they look perfect, then SOMETIMES when I come back to it the x-moves are completely off kilter. The might be 5 degrees off or 20 degrees off. I am tired of this. Has anyone had the same issues or have any suggestions. I have alot of lights and most of them seem to work as they were set up but the X-moves are a problem. They just will not keep the same position form day to day. Sometimes they stay put, sometimes they get thrown off. It is certainly frustrating when I have not been able to find any consistant inconsistancies. The colors, gobos and other commands are fine it is just the x y channels that are getting screwed up. HELP!
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FM Former Member
Actually I have done that. The problem doesn't happen consistantly. I do think I know what's going on. Sometime the x-moves get thrown off somewhere along the line. If I can turn them off and restart everything from the correct home position then its all good. But I never know when its going to happen, the problem doesn't happen from one particular reason, it just happens, but I think now I know that instead of trying to conform to the thrown off postion I need to get them back to the correct home and go from there. This is just a theory, I will wait and see how they perform tomorrow. Right now I'm a bit sick of it.
FM Former Member
Hmmm, if the issue is they seem to get out of whack a bit during your show, maybe program a reset scene into your show. I have reset commands programed in all my shows and use them when the light/s aren't in use. Just one of those things that happens/can happen as the night progresses.
FM Former Member
Well actually I am not a DJ. We use our lights in our gym in our group fitness room. So I am never there to see the show, it is on auto pilot and the instructors don't have time to deal with it while teaching. Between each workout or track I already have the lights go back to square one but the only thing that seems to completely fix the problem is disconnecting the power and restarting. Now I need to find out what makes them get out of whack in the first place to try to avoid it.
BTW we are pretty proud of our studio, here you can take a look.

http://tiffphoto.smugmug.com/p...61164&AlbumKey=bCBVL
FM Former Member
I am not a DJ myself. If it is on auto all night, then I would defaintly add a scene to reset the lights. Anything could be kknocking them out of whack and I am not sure if the fixtures in question have auto correct in them. Not being 100% sure what is happening during the show, all the more reason to add a reset scene or two.
S Studio42 (Guest)
According to the previous thread about this exact same issue, it appears the only way to really address this problem has been to hard cycle the fixtures, which seems to, at least for a bit, address and resolve this issue.

Resolve is the wrong term though. It's a quick temporary fix at best, and then the lights will drift out of "alignment" again.

I think the issue is how the motors brake.
FM Former Member
A soft cycle would be a scene reset. Sorry I am getting back to this late. Unfortunately, the X-Scan LED fixture doesn't have a DMX reset command in it.

So I assume there are different classes that use this setup? If that is the case, simply ask each instructor to turn off the system and back on again before their class/es start.

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