Rocket Soul
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Let me answer with pics when i get home. Are they 5way wagos? Dont put 10 wires in one pls...
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Yea brother 5 ways. Got a load of them.
Thanks again for the help man. Everyone. Finish line's in sight now. I've had so much on recently and I can finally focus on these builds. Really can't wait to put my full time into it all again.
Airwalker16
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Yes. That's the easiest way. branch off right after the driver like a tree to each set of TWO series strips. Pos to first strip neg to last
Thanks man.
So, do I have to link them at the right hand side?
See where the number 2 is... do I connect anything at that end or is it enough for me to connect the pos and neg at the left side, then connect the strips with a jumper?
igrowpot87
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igrowpot87
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I ordered those and they work amazing
Rocket Soul
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And how many strips of what length are connecting per driver? And your strips have single or doube sets of ins/outs?
Nowadays , DIY your own grow lights is so easy like never before...
Looking back at some of the designs of mine and I really wonder if were worth the effort ....
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Looking back at some of the designs of mine and I really wonder if were worth the effort ....
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end_of_the_tunnel
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Wow! Bet you learned a lot in the process. Invaluable skills and knowledge gained for you. Maybe worth the effort for those things alone.Nowadays , DIY your own grow lights is easy like never before...
I look back at some of the designs of mine and I really wonder If were worth the effort ....
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First let me say, those are some beautiful lines brother.
And yea that's it. That was my initial idea of how to do it. I just wanted to be sure before I started sticking things where they shouldn't go.
Been a life saver this place. And LedGardener. Surprised about how little some of the other forums have about Led stuff in general tbh. Wouldn't be building in the first place if I hadn't come here, and wouldn't be doing on the scale I'm about to, no chance.
Many many thanks.
That's impressiveNowadays , DIY your own grow lights is so easy like never before...
Looking back at some of the designs of mine and I really wonder if were worth the effort ....
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Thanx !
As it was bulky ,heavy and noisy ...
But it could switch OFF itself ,if the temperatures rised over a certain limit .
An arduino was in charge of the whole real-time temperature monitoring and power control thing .
But with four powerful fans ,temperature monitoring was an overkill.
Anyway...
I was young and wild ,back then...
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Rocket Soul
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Ok, heres my solution for 12, just do this twice and the second set "wire to driver + and -" go in the spare slot in the first 5way wago.
So check out the top bit which looks like 3 strips: theyre actually 12: first every horizontal line is 2 strips in series. You see 6 lines in 3 pairs,
Top line in each pair is one 2 strip series, line underneath that is another set of 2 strips in series:
You will use the extra set of connectors on the first stripseries set to connect the second in parallel: on left handside we used the + terminal for the wago, connect the remaining -terminal to -on the series directly underneath. On right handside we used the - terminal for the wago so the spare + to + underneath.
Second pic is this in detail.
After doiing the first set youve filled 4 slots in your first wago and you have one left: this slot is for wireing in another wago with anotther set of 12.
You can also do this by having anotther wago that divides into the wagos of the 2 sets of 12, this would be slightly better i thiink but sppend another wago.
Since i havent tried doing this before id like to ask @cobshopgrow to have a look aswell, he allways catches me when im wrong on something. Cobs, this kinda daisy chaining should work right?
Ah... I see what you mean.
Let me do a squiggle to see if I've got it..
Have a look at this first and see if I've wired this right. The orange is the jumper cable which makes the series
Rocket Soul
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Sorry caant make sense out of these but my own drwinng isnt so much better. Ill give it another try later. Are you building right now? For 4x2? Then just start with 12: 6 x 2 strips in series with 3 parallel circuits in each wago. Once you have that the rest gets easier.
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