Strips pull around 1.6-1.7 amps at full power, pots turned all the way up.
Dimmed to 1.2 amps, they read about 46 volts.
Dimmed to 1.0 amps, they read about 45.35 volts.
Drivers pull around 6 amps each at full power.
Dimmed to 1.2 amps at the strip the drivers pull around 4.9 amps each.
I hope these numbers help. It sure would have helped me to know it all, especially working with residential power.
I've learned a lot. Some my original data and guesstimates early in this thread are wrong. I now have a light that uses less power than I expected from the wall and drives harder than I could ask for.
Final thoughts.. I personally have not studied much into the "measuring the light" side of this science experiment.. But I used everything I had access to, to make what the internet said would be adequate to pull a certain amount of power (which I can and did measure) to grow veryyyy effectively in my grow area. Now we all know that everything on the internet has to be true... so I'm anxious to find out and see for myself.
I hope I get to build more. I'd like to build something like this or similar for someone else.
If anyone has any questions, criticisms, concerns, etc.. feel free to leave your input. I like to talk junk like the rest of them!
