What size wire did you use? That's a sharp drop for such a short run. Also measure at the immediate output of the driver. If it is indeed too small wire the proper fix would be to redo everything with thicker wire. Another possible fix may be to move one of the supply wires to the other side of the...

Strange. Can you hook up an ammeter? Measure the voltage at the last strip? Voltage loss due to the wire comes to mind but you're measuring 23v which seems well within the tolerances. I am showing 23v when I measure from the out terminals of the first strip. There is a slight and steady decline as ...

Shimbob wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 05, 2018 6:46 pm

Remove the pot and measure again?

No change after doing that.

I put together the following: 10x SI-B8U261560WW 1x HLG-320H-24B 1x 100k Pot = https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BMZ1FHJ/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 16awg is ran for about 6ft from the driver to the first row of LEDS. After that I dropped down to 18awg to the rest of the strips. A...

No background in metallurgy, beyond an obsession with knife steels... There is a difference in heat dissipation between different aluminiums, although they are usually not included in heat sink calculations. Anodization also improves dissipation. I'm pretty sure the main factor is surface volume, s...

Let us know what your dry weight ends up being. That looks great.