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  1. K

    DIY striplights technical question

    Sorry if I misunderstood, but doesn't this mean running all the strips at 1400 mA? That's the max rated current; wouldn't that be drastically reducing their lifetime and efficiency?
  2. K

    DIY striplights technical question

    Hi guys, thanks for the awesome suggestions. I'm talking about the EB2 strips as from what I've seen they're the best quality for buck. They're only half the price of the aluminium angles/channels they're gonna be attached to. Their rated current is 1.4A so I thought the 1.05A would be soft...
  3. K

    DIY striplights technical question

    Thanks guys, that's cleared a lot up for me. I'll look into getting the 20A driver then, it makes more sense to run at low voltage. Are there any dangers to running in parallel, such as if one of the lights conks out? So if I get it right, it runs at 15A spread out over 15 strips at 1A each...
  4. K

    DIY striplights technical question

    Hi thanks for your reply! Would you mind explaining to me why this is safer, please?
  5. K

    DIY striplights technical question

    Hi guys, first time posting (much lurking). Sorry if this has been answered before! I recently got myself a 1m x 1m x 2m area (3.3'x3.3'6.5') and wanted to run around 300W real power through there. I've really been into the DIY side of things so I wanted to make my own strip lights build and I...
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