joecanna17
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Thanks for stopping by and helping fellas!
If my guess is anywhere close to correct, it should put out around 80,000 lumens at about 480w, but I'm definitely not the math pro here.
The second thing hopefully working in this systems advantage is the whole vertical configuration of plants and a central light, which isn't anything new. I'm just excited to put the addition of current gen LEDs to the whole system that's already personally proven pretty favorable in the past.
I'm not necessarily opposed to cutter, but I like the way Kingbrites prices looked, especially since they supposedly have the 480-c3500a driver.
I'm also waiting on word back about driver prices and shipping time tomorrow, from the manufacturer on Alibaba, who already quoted me for the strips. If the drivers are available, and priced anything like the kingbrite, I should be about ready to order...unless maybe there's closer free shipping or something from cutter or kingbrite?
Hey, I appreciate the help, as I'm not the expert, as I say!
I think the issue may be the slight difference in driver you mentioned. I'm planning on an HLG-480H-C3500A , not a C2100A, for the 30 strip fixture... (I think) 6 strips wired together series, 5 sets of those 6 strips, wired together in parallel. Does that sound closer?
I believe the plan is to run everything at 700mA, max. I think the 6-strip seedling / clone light is all 6 wired series for 135v, 700mA.
The 12 strip is 3 sets of 4 strips wired series / parallel @700mA, I believe
The 30 strip fixture is 5 sets of 6 strips @700mA, for 3500mA total..
..I think....I'm still learning
Yeah, I know it sounds low, wattage wise, but hopefully will have a couple things working for it:So your only using like 4-500 watts for 4 walls in a 4x4? That's sounds pretty low to me I would at least double that
If my guess is anywhere close to correct, it should put out around 80,000 lumens at about 480w, but I'm definitely not the math pro here.
The second thing hopefully working in this systems advantage is the whole vertical configuration of plants and a central light, which isn't anything new. I'm just excited to put the addition of current gen LEDs to the whole system that's already personally proven pretty favorable in the past.
I'm not necessarily opposed to cutter, but I like the way Kingbrites prices looked, especially since they supposedly have the 480-c3500a driver.
I'm also waiting on word back about driver prices and shipping time tomorrow, from the manufacturer on Alibaba, who already quoted me for the strips. If the drivers are available, and priced anything like the kingbrite, I should be about ready to order...unless maybe there's closer free shipping or something from cutter or kingbrite?
They will be run in series and parallel.
The total voltage of the hlg-480h-c2100a is 117v. That means the most strips you can hook up in series (end to end) is 4, because the cumulative voltage of 4 is still under the 117v limit (4x24v = 96v) if you were to try and hook up 5 in series you would go over the max voltage of the driver (5x24v = 120v, when your max is 117v)
If you were to stop there and hook up that one 4-strip string to the driver you would be pushing 2100ma thru your 4 series-wired strips.
Since you want to run 3 strings of series-wired strips at 700ma instead of 1 string at 2100ma you will wire all the + leads together and all the - leads together of your 3 strings. This will give you a parallel circuit which means you divide the total output current of the driver by 3 and each string will get 700ma instead of 2100ma.
If you were to wire 4 strings of 4 series-wired strips in parallel (16 total strips) you would divide 2100ma by 4 and each string would only receive 525ma. 5 strings (20strips) => 420ma, 6 strings (24 strips) => 350ma so on and so forth.
Hope that helps and sorry if it doesnt!
Hey, I appreciate the help, as I'm not the expert, as I say!
I think the issue may be the slight difference in driver you mentioned. I'm planning on an HLG-480H-C3500A , not a C2100A, for the 30 strip fixture... (I think) 6 strips wired together series, 5 sets of those 6 strips, wired together in parallel. Does that sound closer?
I believe the plan is to run everything at 700mA, max. I think the 6-strip seedling / clone light is all 6 wired series for 135v, 700mA.
The 12 strip is 3 sets of 4 strips wired series / parallel @700mA, I believe
The 30 strip fixture is 5 sets of 6 strips @700mA, for 3500mA total..
..I think....I'm still learning