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Work out what is wrong with it

Fault symptom guides written the way somebody actually describes a problem, rather than the way a manual indexes it.

ONE PANEL, EIGHT MODULES1231ONE PIXELA rework. One package, or its pad.2A CLUSTERUsually the driver behind them.3A WHOLE MODULEOften not the module. Look upstream.

One module on my LED wall is completely black but the panels around it are working fine

One LED module dark, rest of the panel fine: what's failed

A single tile blacked out while its neighbours play video. The fault is local to that module. How to prove it on the wall, and what we can repair at component level.

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Close up of a CPS technician adjusting the pan and tilt gear drive inside an opened Robe moving head on the repair bench

The moving light grinds when it pans and it keeps losing its position between cues

Moving head pan motor grinding: why it drifts and what we fix

Grinding, clunking or slow position drift in a moving head is usually the belt, bearing or home sensor rather than the motor. How to tell, and what we can put right.

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ONE PANEL, EIGHT MODULES1231ONE PIXELA rework. One package, or its pad.2A CLUSTERUsually the driver behind them.3A WHOLE MODULEOften not the module. Look upstream.

A square block of pixels is dead on one LED module while the rest of the screen looks normal

LED module dead cluster: what's failed and what we can fix

A block of pixels out on one module is almost never the LEDs. How to read the shape of the dark area, what we can rework, and when a module is genuinely scrap.

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