Your driver has an output of 36V, you can't hook them up in series..I thought series give bigger shock risk because working with higher DC voltage!?
Your driver has an output of 36V, you can't hook them up in series..I thought series give bigger shock risk because working with higher DC voltage!?
"even in parallel, found they had resistive losses"I think some users attempting to use onboard connectors to daisy-chain large numbers of strips, even in parallel, found they had resistive losses. Where large numbers of strips are being assembled on a fixture, maybe experiment with using the onboard connectors to parallel small groups together. And then parallel those groups using soldering or wagos.
These cage type connectors are good at stopping wires from springing loose, but inferior in my opinion, to good old fashioned screw type connector blocks or soldered connection.
At a quick glance it does look correct...good work.Will this work? only difficulty is making the wire's the same length i think, because of the mixed 3000k and 4000k strips.
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So just to be sure i understand this correctly, say for example from the first to the second 3000k strip de red + and black - are both 20cm then from the second to the third 3000k strip the red and black wire also need to be 20cm? same for the 3rd to the 4th etc. etc.As long as each driver has same lengths for each of its + & - your fine
Kinda...more of from driver to last strip is equal...the over all total...in between doesn't matter, but each one should be fairly equal too.So just to be sure i understand this correctly, say for example from the first to the second 3000k strip de red + and black - are both 20cm then from the second to the third 3000k strip the red and black wire also need to be 20cm? same for the 3rd to the 4th etc. etc.
Yup you got itThank you for the explanation!
i stick to my pic in post #24 but i only need to change the 2 black wire's from the 480H driver from the last to the first strip if i'm not mistaken, correct? That will make the red en black wire equal lengths!
i would stick with what you have drawen here.Will this work? only difficulty is making the wire's the same length i think, because of the mixed 3000k and 4000k strips.
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I'm not seeing this...can you explain more.i would stick with what you have drawen here.
not goin with + and - in to the first strip.
doing it that way would mean the first strip have quite some less resistance then the last to the power supply, thats what you dont want.
connecting it like you have drawen would mean, short plus line and long minus line for the first strip and long plus and short minus for the last strip.
so its equals out in the end.
I think we are saying the same thing, but slightly different...loli hope i didnt mixed something up and you simply ment the same.
i was or am still confused by the examples.See in the pic where example #2 has 1 wire longer...this is what you want to avoid.
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This is just a rough picture for example, but not how to wire yours...stick to original pic you posted.
Different length wires will cause a difference of resistance and if memory serves me right 1 of them will heat up more then the other because of it.i was or am still confused by the examples.
Example 2 is clearly the way to go for a equal resistance from each strip to the driver.
even the wire is longer, its better distributed.
you dont need a equal lengt wire to the first strip, you need a overall equal resistance from each strip to the driver provided.
3 sets of 10 strips all have a + on one end and - on the other...don't see the one I missed...left or right and what number from the top?yes, you are wrong then.
different lengh wires cause different resistance, thats right, its still a circuit measured by the overall resistance.
you will increase the overall resistance with the longer different lengh wire very very slightly ( awg14 f.e. have a much lower resistance then such a led strip, hard to measure) but you avoid a uneven distribution, dim leds.
Also its no problem to go from the middle of the rig and then to each side of each group, thats completly even then.
yes, its hard to explain.
imagine what you will measure using a higher precision multimeter, measuring the plus and minus of each strip.
imagine every other strip is a resistor to keep it simple (in fact it acts like one).
you connect the driver direct to the first strip of one group, no further resistors=strips involved.
last strip will have 18 further resitors involved, uneven.
or you connect the first strip with lets say plus and the last with minus.
now you have 9 further resistors to cross on the first strip in total, as on every in the config.
when one get more on one side, one gets less on the other.
thats how you want it, it doesnt matter if the wire lenghts to the first strip are the same you want the overall resistance from each strip to the driver beeing the same.
edit: you added the drawing later, ididnt saw it.
there it looks right to me, but there youre not going in to strip one.
i was just confused by the former examples, 1 and 2, that dont corelate with the drawing now.
to clarify the boards have + and - at each end, they also have the Molex solderless connector which takes 14awg wire3 sets of 10 strips all have a + on one end and - on the other...don't see the one I missed...left or right and what number from the top?
I understand where your coming from now.
So basically no matter how they get connect your always going to have a loss without branching from driver to each strip really.
That example drawing was just to show not to make 1 wire longer then another...couldn't find proper wording to use...lol