Featured in our public art roundup a couple weeks back, Counterbalance Park in Lower Queen Anne has had problems ever since it opened last summer. As we’ve written elsewhere, the city inherited a fussy, fancy LED system that’s proven hard to control. The public-private funding underwrote a design by Murase Associates and Iole Alessandrini that used the LEDs to beam lights up the L-shaped concrete retaining walls that bound the north and east sides of the plaza at Queen Anne Ave. and Roy St. LEDs also light the underside of the concrete benches, but they’ve hardly ever worked.Thus city crews were dispatched to fix the problem. According to parks department spokesperson Dewey Potter, the city worked “both with the manufacturer of the lights and with an electrician. They finally pinpointed the problem as a line-voltage issue. So to solve it, they’re increasing the size of they wire that connects all the lights. They’re gonna completely rewire the system.” That was a couple weeks ago. And, indeed, it appears both banks of lights–on the walls and below the benches–are in sync. Says Potter, “The LED display lighting is now working as intended. All issues have been resolved. The LED display lighting is controlled by a digital time clock. It goes on at 5 p.m. and off at 2 a.m.” The programmable display can be a spectrum (as above), or a wash of purple (as it was last week); and this week it appears to be in a striped blue-and-yellow pattern appropriate to spring.