How to cleanly connect lots of strips to the driver?

So, when you have a lot of strips to connect back to the driver what's the best approach for this? Instead of a big ass wad of wire with wire nuts how about a termination block then from the block to the driver. Anybody have any examples of a clean and safe install?

Wago connectors and wire loom is what I normally see

Or in case, with two separate types of strips, you could connect them in series and then parallel strings. As long as you have the same amount.

Another way would be daisy chaining, but it uses lots of wagos.

Rocket Soul said:

Or in case, with two separate types of strips, you could connect them in series and then parallel strings. As long as you have the same amount.

Another way would be daisy chaining, but it uses lots of wagos.

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I've got 18 strips all at 48V to run those in series would be some serious voltage? I could break them down into a series of series...lol. My last light was in series but topped out at 175V. It was so easy, I asked about the best way to build lights and the answer came back with a resounding ..do it in parallel due to the such high voltages. I like series because the wiring is simple and current is evenly distributed. Downside is high voltage and if one strip has issues it affects the rest..kinda like the old Christmas lights.

The answer depends entirely on how you are wiring them. I'm assuming that you are talking parallel wiring, and in that case I tuck the wires into the 80/20 aluminum frame on their path to each strip. You can get plastic inserts for most standard extruded aluminum bars that will keep the wires in place even better, but I haven't had an issue yet without them

dropshot said:

The answer depends entirely on how you are wiring them. I'm assuming that you are talking parallel wiring, and in that case I tuck the wires into the 80/20 aluminum frame on their path to each strip. You can get plastic inserts for most standard extruded aluminum bars that will keep the wires in place even better, but I haven't had an issue yet without them

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Parallel, sorry should have put that in the title and first post.

Wire bundling.