Need help with LED build

llewop

Active Member
I'm trying to run 8 Bridgelux BXEB-L0280Z-35E1000-C-B3 using a HLG-60H-C350A. I wired them in series like the diagram below and when I turned them on they started blinking. I checked for loose connections and went I ran it again it sounded like there was a short and all leds immediately went out. Any help is appreciated.

 

llewop

Active Member
Oh unlike the diagram I'm running without the potentiometer as the driver has one. Also I have not touched the potentiometer since receiving the driver.
 

Chip Green

Well-Known Member
MeanWell drivers have a "hiccup" mode. When the driver senses an issue it will "strobe"........ I triggered this blinking effect by trying to run too few, forward volts in a series set up.

Ive also seen that happen when I had an alligator clip on the positive power lead from the driver, trying to test the voltage droop of the circuit, must have caused a short....

Are your strips attached with screws to anything?
The EB series has mounting holes for OPTICS that have caused problems when used as screw holes....

Look at the back of the strips, you can see where the circuits at laid out, the slightly bigger holes were not intended to have conductive materials...

If so it is possible that a screw in the "lens" mounting holes has shorted the strip.....
 
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