You could use a 1-10V potentiometer to do it. Not sure about using resistor pots.
I will try to get a diagram drawn for you today.
Weird issue with meanwell drivers powering samsung strips
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Hi,
I had a thought on your problem with the strips being marginally high in voltage. It may be a daft one, so be gentle.
Could you not find the diode grouping on the strips and short one of the diodes on each parallel leg? Essentially just soldering a link around\across it to drop that strips voltage.
Wish you well whatever way it works out, it's been yet another great and informative read going through your thread.
B
I had a thought on your problem with the strips being marginally high in voltage. It may be a daft one, so be gentle.
Could you not find the diode grouping on the strips and short one of the diodes on each parallel leg? Essentially just soldering a link around\across it to drop that strips voltage.
Wish you well whatever way it works out, it's been yet another great and informative read going through your thread.
B
Thanks for the suggestion. I'm not familiar with "diode groupings".bilabong007 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 16, 2020 6:35 amHi,
I had a thought on your problem with the strips being marginally high in voltage. It may be a daft one, so be gentle.
Could you not find the diode grouping on the strips and short one of the diodes on each parallel leg? Essentially just soldering a link around\across it to drop that strips voltage.
Wish you well whatever way it works out, it's been yet another great and informative read going through your thread.
B
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One last thought was to use conductive paint (the stuff to repair heated car glass) rather than soldering.
I have too much time on my hands
I have too much time on my hands
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From my rudimentary understanding of strips (and i m no expert) they are groups of 3v diodes.
E.g. 5 parallel groups of 12 diodes in series (12x3v) = 36v 60 diode strip
If you work out how your strips are grouped you could short diodes to drop the voltage. There is probably a much easier way to fix this, i would listen to one of the more knowledgeable folk.
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No apology necessary. I def want to see the diagram so that I can advance my thinking on combining series and parallel circuits. The customer does want to pay to upgrade these lights. I believe I'm going the route of rewiring the 8 existing strips in parallel to be powered, by a HLG-600H-48B, and then adding 3 additional strips to each light, which will be powered by one of the HLG-320H-C1750B's. I believe this will make a decent CO2 ready light.
So can I use that software you told me about to determine the PPFD of the design I am proposing?