Another SolStrip build

I made new wiring looms for my twin rigs today. Solid core 1.5mm with 1mm takeoffs for the strips. It’s neater and makes changing strips very easy, the old multi strand stuff jammed in the molex terminals and then broke apart when pulled with any force so it had to go.

I did exactly the same with the other one of the matching pair so not much point in showing pics of it. I still find it odd to see the draw at the socket from a supposed 185w driver.

Turned right down to min these things are still blinding.

Turned up to max i have to put them upside down on the floor to test cos i cant see anything but white light otherwise.

Yeh that’s a 280W draw from 5 solstrips on a 185W driver at power-up :thinking: it settles down to around 260w after a few minutes but that’s still almost 11 Amps! the HLG 185’s max ratings at 24V are 7.8 Amps and 187W so even allowing for around 25W in driver losses that’s still roughly 235W :astonished: no wonder the 1.5mm (16awg) flex between the drivers and rigs gets slightly warm when the drivers are at max :laughing:

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