Constant voltage/parallel system over powering
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- LED Maniac
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The safest bet for a parallel constant voltage build would be the a version of the driver. That's what I would recommend.
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- LED-Curious
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I went with the B version because I wanted an external potentiometer that can be controlled wirelessly. That seems to be much more difficult than it sounds.
Just wanted to chime in that strips will pull over their rated max without hesitating if given the voltage to do so. The max rating is only referring to how much current the strip can safely take and doesn’t have anything to do with how much they will pull. If you feed them a high enough voltage with a CV driver, they will pull all the current you can give them and probably blow up.
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- LED-Curious
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Sounds like a good reason to go constant current then. The A version does seem to be a better choice in that it seems to only deliver the higher current when required
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- LED Maniac
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I forgot to stress that point!LEDG wrote: ↑Fri Sep 28, 2018 1:07 pmJust wanted to chime in that strips will pull over their rated max without hesitating if given the voltage to do so. The max rating is only referring to how much current the strip can safely take and doesn’t have anything to do with how much they will pull. If you feed them a high enough voltage with a CV driver, they will pull all the current you can give them and probably blow up.
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