@anon32470837 is absolutely spot on. @Daytripr69 you’re definitely starting to grasp it now. Series wiring spreads your voltage so you can use a higher load driver. Parallel keeps voltage low. nd if you have a failing strip the rest should stay lit.
Look at the max load of the drivers you intend to use. My plan is to wire 8 x 1120mm strips in series to an xlg240L-AB
The XLG240-L-AB has a Max output voltage of 342v and drives at 700ma.
We know the strips are driven at 39v
So let’s do some maths
342÷39 = 8.76
It would be possible to round it up to 9 strips but 8 works for the spacing on my intended build.
Now we do 8x39=312v
Because we’re working 700ma we then need to do
312x0.7=218.4
218.4w of actual draw from the wall.
Now let’s work on efficiency. We know the drivers are 89% typ efficiency.
So we would take 218.4x0.89=194.37w (usable light)
Say we were using the 1120 3500k strips at 175lm/w
We would do 194.37x175=34,014 lumens.
@anon32470837 was spot on when he spoke of the inverse square law. You can get these practically on top of your plants. You can’t do that with HPS so stuff does kinda balance itself out quite niceky