I've got 3 light linker rules for 3 separate references-
1) A sphere
2) Some text
3) Some animated prototypes from a SOP create node

1 & 2 work fine, but once added to the light linker, the prototypes are no longer lit.
Without the light linker everything is lit just fine.

Any thoughts what I'm f'ing up would be very much appreciated.

(edit) to clarify, if i use the light linker * at all * even having unaffected lights in the scene, the prototypes are unlit.

(edit2) I pulled all of the pieces into a collection via an instancer, (which i probably should have done int he first place) and now everything is lit by one light and not excluded.