@Christopher_Kirkman1 the random flashing has been discussed recently in this thread.
https://plus.google.com/107582712342018613958/posts/Qvv5MAkFRqm
…and sometimes the chip is bad and has to be excised. thus the pain of using matrix panels, when one led goes, so goes the panel.
Resurrecting this a bit. I had some time this past weekend to start going through things with a finer toothed comb, cut out a bunch of dead LEDs, re-shirk-wrapped and thought I had things going okay until I ran the demo and the flashing came back again. That said, I’ve got a strong suspicion its another bad pixel somewhere. I discovered that if I pinched or bent the strip just a little, it had an effect on what was lighting up down the strip. I grabbed some video to demonstrate.
So I’m not crazy in thinking its just bad connections somewhere in the line, right? Is there something specific I should be looking for, or am I at the mercy of a one by one trial and error to cut out the bad bit?