Citi 1212s and hlg-320h-c700

So if I have a 6k pot and A 250 ohm

If I wire 250ohm resister is series even if I have the pot dimmed down to 0 I'd have 250 ohm resistance?
Would 250 ohm be enough to limit drivers to 10%?

i think youre gonna have to to test and tell us. i dunno anybody that has done that many drivers. resistors are cheap so experiment

I'm happy to do the test just trying to understand how resistors work so I dont blow anything up lol.

Sorry for all the questions but for the pot value.

We have to divide 100k by number of drivers. I assume that's due to dimming leads being in parallel which causes the resistance value to be split between each driver and needs less possibly?

So in theory I could get away with a 10k or a 4K? Pot why do does it need to be a 100k for one driver?

If I use a 100k pot for 16 drivers what would happen

George2324 said:

I'm happy to do the test just trying to understand how resistors work so I dont blow anything up lol.

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the dimming circuits are low risk. it will either be full on, full, off, or somewhere in between

George2324 said:

We have to divide 100k by number of drivers. I assume that's due to dimming leads being in parallel which causes the resistance value to be split between each driver and needs less possibly?

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i think it has to do with the internal resistance of each circuit and its effect on other drivers

George2324 said:

So in theory I could get away with a 10k or a 4K? Pot why do does it need to be a 100k for one driver?

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because datasheet

if you put 10K on one driver you wont get it over 10% output

That's great thanks so 100k / 16 = 6250ohm

So I need to provide 6250 ohm resistance to get max output from drivers.

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So if I want to cap the max power at 90% to protect breakers and min power at 10% to protect drivers

I can use a 600 ohm resistor in series always on to cap power at 9.5% closest I can get to 10%

And then 5625 ohm = 90% but due to acculative values I can use a 5k pot and then the 600 ohm in series would cause max resistance value to be 5600 which would cap out at 90%

Sound about right?