yer you can do that, you would have to wire two stips in series for 38v and adjust the driver down a touch then a paralel cicuit feeding the two strips in series. just the same as wiring one big light. only downside is they wont be dimmable seperately if that bothers you, you could MAYBE use two meshteks one at the start of the parralel feed for each light to gain back independant dimming but im not sure on exactly how the meshteks work yet.
eb gen3s? 700mA is nominal but already quite soft, just over 0.1w per diode (samsungs diodes are usually nominal 0.2).
wago's?, - depends if you are soldering a loom or not, if not you defo need em but still might be handy even if building a loom.
Yep, wagos. Check. I'll grab a load of those.
Id avoid that, are you sure they have t same voltage or just from datasheet?
Will work just fine.
Nice. That's what I'll do
Thought the datasheet would be enough. Might just run the 8 then.
You can get a multimeter and check them? Iirc the gen3 was a bit under dataheet voltage in tests. Not sure, all i know is test it before mixing gens. Unless youre running groups off 1 geen3 and 1 gen2 in parallel, and then i series. This should be ok. Not familiar with american cabling, cantt say
yer i was gona add 1.5mm 3 core flex for the drivers and plugs!.
All good info but just get 10K ohm resistors to be sure.
missed a K, will add now.
missed two actually so pay more attention!
Dropping voltage (while maintaining light) is one of the main ways of increasing efficiency.
