Haha alright, for anyone that might be curious I found out what the problem is, and you're gonna laugh. I just realized when I went to buy more strips that the strips I got were gen 1 strips and not 2. So not only did I get a more inefficient model, I should have kept my original 24V driver instead ...

This is my 2nd, if I had to get another one it’ll be my 3rd. Nothing was wrong with the 1st, I just got a 24 volt driver cause that’s what the strip tool said I’d need, not realising the tool was using gen 1 strips. So I sold that for $100 just trying to get some money to put towards this one after ...

Yeah I’m gonna have to get another multimeter, fingers crossed that’s the issue, I’ll update here when that happens. Yeah I don’t think it smoked due to too much current or anything. Granted I don’t know very much about this stuff, The potentiometers were turned right down when it smoked a bit from ...

Also another thing that might be a dumb question, in the diagram you uploaded, from the top to bottom it goes the line of positives, then the negatives, then positive, then negative. In mine I have it with positive being at the top, then negative, then negative again, then positive again on the bott...

Yeah, I've re-checked them at least twice everytime I've made a post here and as I've been tending to my plants. I'm 100% sure its all positive to positive and negative to negative. I think the smoke was due to the strayed wire being frayed from being pushed into the wago while not being twisted pro...

That's pretty much what I have, except the driver is in the middle going out, and the last 2 holes that are empty in the last wagos in that diagram you uploaded would be connected to strips instead of being empty.

I tested the current on a single strip, with both the voltage and current turned up, I'm reading .37ma. This just keeps seeming weirder and weirder. Yes, 16 strips on each lead, 32 total. When I said "the first wago" I meant the first, up top on the photo. They would actually be the last wagos since...

Haha yeah, I figured that was a typo. All good haha. About 5 minutes after turning it up to max, It's already uncomfortable as soon as I put my thumb on the back of a strip. It doesn't feel like it will seriously burn me, but it's definitely very uncomfortable and I'd have to remove my thumb after 5...

Haha no offense taken, as I said I had to make some 18AWG wire longer than preferred, and I had some trouble converting all the wire over to a flat service and having it all be visible. Basically each strip from the top down is just running to the closest port of each wago. So the first 4 strips are...

I made a rough drawing of my frame, hopefully this helps and is clear enough, I don't have much drawing skills in real life let alone using a laptop trackpad as a pen. I know the wiring isn't very neat, I've never done it before and ran out of 12 AWG wire and can't get any IRL, so I did the best I c...