Apex 2016 Issue with T5 Dimming

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Just hopped over from Reefkeeper to the Apex 2016. I have a T5 retrofit for supplemental actinics that worked quite smoothly on the Archon. Now that I set them up on the Apex, they dim up and down over the 90 min ramp period. What gives? Here's my schedule:

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I don't understand the question. Are they not working as intended? What do you want them to do?
 
I'm attempting to have them ramp up and down according to schedule. During the ramp period, they brighten and dim for about half a minute approximately every few minutes during the ramp periods. It's not a smooth ramp process
 
They still continue to dim in and out about every 45 seconds or so.

Here's the error I receive when I attempt advanced programming:

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After I posted I added Time after if but I still end up with an error. However I just tried again and it worked!

I don't know if the problem was that I was not using the capital letters in the profile names or that the ramp times didn't match the ones in the profiles.

I'll check tonight if the dimming still fluctuates but thank you everyone for your help
 
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Is that in Line 2?

As in, is that the 2nd line of the programming?

What is the error when you put the If Time xx:xx to xx:xx then Profile
 
Not having seen your previous code, it's hard to know where the problem was, but good that it's working as expected now.
I'd tweak that code a bit.
Fallback should come before Set.
Also it's best to not to overlap times at all, so I'd change the fourth line to If Time 10:31 to 18:59 then 60.
 
What do your ramp profiles look like?
 
Just got home and unfortunately, the issue persists even with the advanced programming. The lights alternate between dim and bright about every 45 seconds or so.
Here's my ramp schedules.

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The plot thickens...

I manually turned off the 0-10v signal by moving the slider to OFF for the varspd1 channel (the one with the profiles for dimming the T5s).
I manually turned on Outlet 1 on the EB82 where I have the T5 fixture connected.
Guess what??? I'm getting the same output! The lights dim in and out every 45 seconds (there's no fading, they jut switch back-and-forth from dim to bright). I tried this experiment this morning before the ramp period was scheduled to begin at 06:30.

I'm suspecting either:
1) some sort of interference (0-10v signal wires too close to something? But weird because 0-10v signal turned off); or
2) possibly my Apex brain is defective?

What's your thoughts?
 

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