Looking for a little help as usual. Ok above is a Samsung F-Series strip build that I put together for vegging some plants. Now initially I wired it in series & it worked fine. I then realised I hadn’t checked the maximum number of these strips than can safely be wired in series.
Digi-Key support said 5is the max. I have 6 in series. Anyway, it got used for 5 weeks, always with someone in the house in case something did get wrong.
It’s now not in use for a while so I thought I better re-wire it. I have used solid core wire & wago’s to re-wire each strip in parallel.
I appreciate it looks messy but I have leant not to worry about tidying up too much at this point as I inevitably will always have to do some troubleshooting.
Anyway, I connected it up to the HLG-120H-C1050B I’ve been using it with in series. I switched on & all good initially. I plugged it into a watt meter & tested it again. When I turn the light down & up it visibly gets dimmer or brighter matching the direct of the potentiometer but the watt meter shows the max draw as around 48w. Max on this driver should be around 150w. That’s what I was actually getting when I tested it wired in series.
It certainly looks brighter than 48w. Anyway, I have a few of these wat meters on my cob builds so I have checked the wat meters & they all appear to be working correctly.
This was my first-time building using strips & parallel wiring so I’m guessing I have missed something very obvious but cannot work out what.
Does anyone have any ideas why I am getting these odd readings?
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