Setting up a new room 7`x14`

[Apalchen]

Lol u can see my ghetto fan set up I had this big fan but it doesn't oscillate so I just have this one blowing down on to the floor seems to help them dance around while not blowing directly on anything.

 

[diggs99]

Hey

Gonna try and wire this light controller, my wires from the panel are red/black and ground..

Its the helios 11 controller.

Any of you have any expierence wiring these things? @Renfro i can only assume does, he built a crazy ass controller himself ffs lol

 

[Renfro]

Black and Red go to the L1 and L2 lugs, ground to the ground screw. Should be good to go.

 

[diggs99]

if im not back in 10 mins, send someone for me lol

 

[Renfro]

lol - it's been like 30 mins

 

[diggs99]

lol - it's been like 30 mins

haha i just noticed that too

im awful, on my way to the room to hook up controller, stop by storage room where all the jars of ganja are, wanted to burp the purple kush, grabbed a big ole dark purple bud cause it looked so good, it smoked even better lol


Still never made it to the room to hook up controller yet lol

 

[Renfro]

make sure you turn off the breaker lol.

 

[diggs99]

Ya i did that first thing this morning, before i smoked lol

I just opened the controller to have a look, L1 looks normal, it seems L2 is empty and has a red x above it, L3/5 is beside it and appears to have a terminal to screw the wire into

I see ground screw down below.

I think i got this shit lol


For clarification purposes, is either of the lugs for positive or negative specifically? or can either go into either lug?

it dont say on the terminal + or -

 

[diggs99]

Here's a pic

 

[Purpsmagurps]

It says input 1 and 2 because it is ac and there is no real +-

 

[Purpsmagurps]

I take it that is 240?

 

[diggs99]

Yes 240 with 120v trigger cord

 

[Renfro]

Input 1 is black and input 2 is red, you can switch them it won't matter.

 

[Renfro]

Alternating current doesnt have positive and negative like direct current. With AC the polarity is alternating 60 times a second (thus the 60 hertz).

 

[diggs99]

So im in the room about to hook up light controller, snap a few pics of the plants for the journal, thats when i noticed a strip was gone out, as i was going to investigate the issue the whole light shorted out.

It seems another one of those shitty cheap ass plugin connectors that cutter are using on these strips failed and released from the solder, it then flicked itself over to the other connector on the same strip and stuck to it, causing the light to short out.

Ima say it now, im about 1 more led issue away from throwing these things in the corner and filling the room with a few 1k de hps and a mini split lol

 

[Renfro]

did the short fry the driver?

 

[diggs99]

did the short fry the driver?

no , as far as i can tell the driver seems fine. I secured the loose wire with a marette and plugged light back in to see wtf, it lit up....this is the good driver btw lol...or it was


i got it all unplugged and am about to take it down and put it back on the work table

 

[Renfro]

whew, got lucky there. I don't know what kind of protection circuit they put in there but it looks like it worked. lol

 

[Purpsmagurps]

just a little bit of solder

 

[diggs99]

whew, got lucky there. I don't know what kind of protection circuit they put in there but it looks like it worked. lol

Ya for sure, it seems i got lucky there

just a little bit of solder

Ya thats what i figured, never soldered before, always a first lol