There is something very odd going on if -
behaves any differently to "Pause 20000".
It might be an initialisation issue of some sort if you are downloading new programs into an already running PICAXE, or doing a power-cycle reset, ending up with an incomplete data transfer so the first clear in the new program is not initialising the LED strip as expected or something similar.
Code:
Symbol pause_word = W1
pause_word = 20000
pause pause_word
It might be an initialisation issue of some sort if you are downloading new programs into an already running PICAXE, or doing a power-cycle reset, ending up with an incomplete data transfer so the first clear in the new program is not initialising the LED strip as expected or something similar.