Need help with wiring a strip lights...

Airwalker16 said:

Beautiful build. These are series wired drivers right? @Rocket Soul

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These are 48ish volt samsungs on xlg240h ? Then its all parallel. The h goes up to around 57V.
Once plugged in dim up using internal pot until, goes brighter for a bit and then flickers and goes out. Take it back just a tiny notch, theyre bright again and leave internal dimmer there, the rest of dimming is with external

Airwalker16 said:

@Rocket Soul can you explain what the difference is for constant current range and the current adjustment range? Why's one 2200-6660 & the other 4280-6660?
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Not sure if i can really, what i gather: you can run these between 27 and 56 by adjusting current simply, using internal pot. Once you hit too much current for the driver to handle at your specific voltage it just turns off, go back a bit and your on again. If i under stand correctly it runs more efficient the higher the voltage you use.
It goes down to 2200 cause you can take it to 50% i think. I have some m version next time i got my multimeter handy ill do tests.

Rocket Soul said:

It goes down to 2200 cause you can take it to 50% i think. I have some m version next time i got my multimeter handy ill do tests.

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Half of what? The 4280?

Rocket Soul said:

These are 48ish volt samsungs on xlg240h ? Then its all parallel. The h goes up to around 57V.
Once plugged in dim up using internal pot until, goes brighter for a bit and then flickers and goes out. Take it back just a tiny notch, theyre bright again and leave internal dimmer there, the rest of dimming is with external

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So why the hell are there 2 strips in series for each parallel connection? Isn't that a 96v fV?

TheSadBadGrower said:

Correct?
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It depends on the voltage of those sttrips, i suspect they are 48ish V? Then no good, if they were around 24-25 (less than half of 56V) you can do this 2 in series connection and then do parallel runs.

If they are 48ish just group all + (including driver) and all - together. Then the internal dimmer bit i described above.

Rocket Soul said:

It depends on the voltage of those sttrips, i suspect they are 48ish V? Then no good, if they were around 24-25 (less than half of 56V) you can do this 2 in series connection and then do parallel runs.

If they are 48ish just group all + (including driver) and all - together. Then the internal dimmer bit i described above.

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This is what I was saying. The 2 in series won't work at all.

Airwalker16 said:

So why the hell are there 2 strips in series for each parallel connection? Isn't that a 96v fV?

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See above, i think no good, unless the strips are low voltage.

On the driver dimming: i cant really say exactly, all i know is what i see by dimming up and down on the internal dimmer which is hoing from low to more and flicker and no light. The internal is more for the max amp setting i gather, the finetuning should be done by external dimmer.

Also i didnt realize there was posting on led in this section. OP, these things are allways easier to get help in the led section, lucky aw16 picked up on this. Im never in this section.

But led section can be a bit bitchy tbh....

Rocket Soul said:

Also i didnt realize there was posting on led in this section. OP, these things are allways easier to get help in the led section, lucky aw16 picked up on this. Im never in this section.

But led section can be a bit bitchy tbh....

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Lucky I've got this forum selected on watch. I didn't even realize it wasn't in LED until you just mentioned it Lolololol.

OP, everything depends in what mode you use your driver. As it gives 56V max, you probably want to run it in Constant Voltage mode. There for your supplier is right: connect 2 stripes in series (24V*2=48V - 85% of max driver can give), and then 4 groups of 2 in parallel (1800mA*4=7200mA more than your driver can give). So your stripes will run 92.5% of max power. But you will have to adjust output voltage to 48.

Cappuchino said:

OP, everything depends in what mode you use your driver. As it gives 56V max, you probably want to run it in Constant Voltage mode. There for your supplier is right: connect 2 stripes in series (24V*2=48V - 85% of max driver can give), and then 4 groups of 2 in parallel (1800mA*4=7200mA more than your driver can give). So your stripes will run 92.5% of max power. But you will have to adjust output voltage to 48.

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So I got one side done.....my problem was I overlooked the Wago connectors and was making it ALOT harder then it should have been lol. Today at least I know what to do and I can mirror it to the other side and make it look nicer with more proper fitting wire lengths etc. I appreciate all the help everyone.

TheSadBadGrower said:

any ideas?

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Wago connectors or a wiring terminal block.

Merlin1147 said:

Wago connectors or a wiring terminal block.

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It was the wagos that were throwing me off lol I put em aside and forgot all about them lol

TheSadBadGrower said:

So I got one side done.....my problem was I overlooked the Wago connectors and was making it ALOT harder then it should have been lol. Today at least I know what to do and I can mirror it to the other side and make it look nicer with more proper fitting wire lengths etc. I appreciate all the help everyone.

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What strips are you rocking?

Rocket Soul said:

What strips are you rocking?

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I don't know exact kind but they are Samsung with the H's and B's and all that fun stuff. I dont know much about specs.

Official samsungs or alibaba or similar? I see both red and blue monos or is it trick of the eye? Looks good, any grow wiith them? Linky?

Rocket Soul said:

Official samsungs or alibaba or similar? I see both red and blue monos or is it trick of the eye? Looks good, any grow wiith them? Linky?

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Official. No alibaba for me lol. There is blue and reds. Using it to flower only. Just turned down so you really can't see it best.

TheSadBadGrower said:

Official. No alibaba for me lol. There is blue and reds. Using it to flower only. Just turned down so you really can't see it best.

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I thought the official samsungs were red monos only? Have yoi got the link to where you bought it?

Rocket Soul said:

I thought the official samsungs were red monos only? Have yoi got the link to where you bought it?

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I am not even sure what red monos mean lol....but I didnt get them off any site. I pulled a builder off ebay and we did the planning and what not that way. This is the info on them. I grabbed close up pics too.
8 - 30x400mm Strips with 96 Samsung lm301b / lm301h LEDs Each Strip has: 64 - 2700k Samsung lm301b 16 - 4000k Samsung lm301h 16 - 6500k Samsung lm301b 8 - 30x400mm Strips with 90 Samsung lm301b / lm301h LEDs plus Red & IR Each Strip has: 58 - 2700k Samsung lm301b 16 - 4000k Samsung lm301h 16 - 6500k Samsung lm301b 4 - 660nm Deep Red 2 - 730nm Far Red(IR)

Cappuchino said:

OP, everything depends in what mode you use your driver. As it gives 56V max, you probably want to run it in Constant Voltage mode. There for your supplier is right: connect 2 stripes in series (24V*2=48V - 85% of max driver can give), and then 4 groups of 2 in parallel (1800mA*4=7200mA more than your driver can give). So your stripes will run 92.5% of max power. But you will have to adjust output voltage to 48.

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1800mA has zero to do with the equation. it's simply the Max current the strips can handle. I do lnt think this is right at all