Monster Board V4 Bluetooth Controller Help

StonedGimp

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After looking around on here I decided to check out the geek beast pro on Ali baba. I ended up finding the new Monster Boards and really like the look of the 320w version. I emailed the seller and apparently the driver is a meanwell 320h-48ab and is 1-10v dimming and won’t work correctly with the Bluetooth dimmer/controller they offer with the larger boards and geek beast pro. The ad says they plan to upgrade something later on so it will but the person I talked to said that’s not the case for the 320w and smaller boards. Regardless of what they say would there be anyway I could wire something in to the Infrared and uv independent switches that come off the board so I can use some type of a timer for them separately? I would really like to use a Bluetooth timer and dimmer for the whole setup if possible. Thanks
 

StonedGimp

Active Member
Constant voltage vs constant current models
cc is constant current driver while cv is the constant voltage driver type.

Would you be happy with a wifi (no bluetooth) dimmer? The Bluefish controller does 0-10 volts and PWM.
Ahh okay, I’m not exactly sure which type of driver the 320h-48ab is but I was thinking earlier why don’t I just swap out the driver to something that is 0-10v dimming and sell the one that comes with the light. Then I could use the setup geek beast sells. What driver would work to replace the 320h-48ab? Here’s the light information


Also, I do love the bluefish and have spent hours looking over the mini’s manual and the regular bluefish manual when I was going to build a light but I’m not sure if I want to spend $200 just for one light and I don’t really use WiFi much. Also, since all the lights on all 3 boards use the same driver I’m not quite sure how I would wire in the bluefish to each separate spectrum unless I wired into the individual ir/uv switches that connect to the panel. Would this be possible?
 
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