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www.breedbay.org/forums i hope it will be ok to talk about this again....Just got things turned back on ;) i know a couple people here were wondering and waiting so just passing it along. HAPPY FREAKING NEW YEAR WEED FREAKS ;P

i know everyone has heard the bit about lemons......but sometimes life hands you a fruit and you have no idea wtf it even is lol.....how do you even start to make the most of that? do you eat the skin or no?? i guess you take a bite and start to find out heh.... i am sorry its better not to be...

hey there.....yeah....i cannot really, at this time, give any concrete date for reopening plans....but i can give some general reassurances that i believe are not misplaced.... first off, just to remind part of the reason i got involved there....is because i was sick of moving site to site...

one last round of shots to close this topic off i suppose....final thoughts? got things this far at least pretty happy for that and VERY eager to see how they bloom but that will be a few months of course... to me it is a very beautiful thing..all parts of it ;P

ok...i think that might make sense to me hmm....seems to check out tho! i am happy with this.... for as much as the meter wavered at all, it bounced up a couple points but settled here for the most part... heres another shot of the one i just finished with wiring a bit tighter and nice in...

i just mean that the driver puts out 24v....so im trying to keep wiring and connectors only eating up that extra volt the strips cannot use....which of course is impossible if i want to mount the drivers remotely, but otherwise no problemo (plan for wintertime) i did have this set as a 22 strip...

hmm is it really just 5watt tho? by dropping effectively 1.8v? its only .8v off the actual output i know just seems that would add up higher.... wow....thank you so much to say that....i hadnt realized that was even an option....i have 220 i already ran all down the hall and its all i use for...

mail truck came early :D thought i would be waiting till tuesday for some of this stuff! ive "quickly" slapped together a rewire job....did a quick voltage check etc.. gained about .5 volts basically, still about .5 less than id like to see(23v at driver, 22.5 where the terminal is, havent...

that would be a good test....if i still had it put together i would try that for a quick compare....i might anyway if i get bored waiting... its been a couple hangups at the end sorting this last wiring bit, but i still have a good confidence to what i am after.... i like the idea to push the...

true i saw one similar build online and this long line of connectors is how they "overcame" the loss connecting direct thru strips....i am tending to think, they didnt look as close as i did to the output and/or perhaps figured it was good enough idk....they were also using a stronger driver so...

ive got some "dual port" 12 gang terminal blocks with jumpers on the way....i figured i could try running 2 or 3 per junction and see if there is any ill effect, otherwise 2 blocks per unit i wont even mind, i found them cheap around $5 each....i am pretty wary of any series wiring on this...

the problem i dont like is the strips do not output evenly....farther from the driver gets dimmer due to the Vdrop...in my ignorance, i didnt think a slightly lower voltage would effect the amps as much like that, or that the connectors would do that as notably.. makes perfect sense in hindsight...

-regardless of voltage dimming setting, i could not get it above 22.5dcv with everything attached to the wagos...btw it maxes out resistance, BEFORE the dimmer is turned all the way up...so im assuming it will not put out anything higher unless its rewired.... -dam....you are right tho, about...

ok, just yanked that parallel line off the array for some tests to see better what in the actual fck..... mind you these tests are without any current being drawn, but still interesting.. ive tested the plain 16awg "tinned wire" i was suspect of....zero voltage drop over 12-15ft or so... with...

no iggy you are not wrong...lol....i can link if anyone besides me is willing to learn, but this is getting tiresome....know it all pissing contests cmon guys we can do better....

that isnt how i understand CC drivers work tho...."constant current" which it pulls from the voltage if needed...am i wrong? regarding testing, that maybe some true...we can still see big differences tho.....perhaps not an exact # on a 6inch piece or wire or something but this meter should be...

i think where i got confused on this is with these CC+CV in one drivers.... i considered that perhaps the reason for the voltage drop was the driver kicking into CC mode to make up for low amps....but turning down the amps, did not increase voltage...so that was confusing.... i am tending to...

yeah ultimately its the amps im more concerned about....that seems most whats gonna squeeze every lumen out and keep the strips running max output on these drivers....i know voltage drops over longer runs which i wanna minimize....but after a few quick reads it seems the amps that are more...

right....i assumed that was implied... ive done the basic voltage test with the current setup already, which is how we got here... but more will be coming asap once i have more materials to compare.... thanks for pointing out about the 14awg lead.....i hadnt looked into that so far, but im not...

hey i just came across this, if anyone else is interested.....comparing connectors... spoiler alert: in this test, plain(tinned) wire resist by .0049 ohm (bit longer) wirenuts resist by .0045 ohm push-in/wagos by .0055 ohm seems like a pretty small number but yeah i need to get this into...