Tonight i loaded up Marc Millers beat8.ino,

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Tonight i loaded up Marc Millers beat8.ino, and it didn’t go as expected and confirmed something abut my setup. I expected the light to travel around the circle. it gets less than a meter away from the end and jumps back to the beginning. I’ve been noticing something like this on other animations i have created. for the life of me i have no idea why.

I have a 6 foot circle, going around the inside of the circle is 2 strips of WS2812B’s 60led/m for a total of 295 leds per pin. Im running off a Arduino Mega. with enough power.

I only modified the code below to match my setup (pin number/NUM_LEDS ect…)

any thoughts would be great.
https://github.com/marmilicious/FastLED_examples/blob/master/beat8.ino

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Try replacing beat8 with beat16

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@Jeremy_Spencer thanks, i actually just tried that, and thow it now goes around the whole circle, it looks more like 8 or so dots flashing, almost like its going to fast now.

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Beat8 has a maximum value of 255,that’s why it didn’t go all the way round. Add FastLed.delay(8) at the end of the loop to slow it down

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@Jeremy_Spencer Thanks. The difference between 8 and 16 is starting to cement in. I have already fixed some of my main code. have found uint8_t pos = where i should have uint16_t pos = and it has fixed some of this issues. thanks for the quick response.