Hello All,
Well, in the last 12 hours or so, I've learned more about LEDs than I ever wanted to know
As some of you knew, I bought 3 LED fixtures from a member for a great deal yesterday. I knew from the git go that there would be work involved with making them functional. I had assumed that there was only an issue with the largest of the drivers but I believe that on at least 2 of them, the controller or the display pad is bad as well as the power button doesn't seem to work at all. The drivers seem to work as I tested them without the controller (9 volt battery as the dimmer) and the lights lit up... and bright. I can't lie to you, I am not smart enough to figure out how to work the controller panel anyway. On the one that does work, I can get the power on and not much more...
So,for the ones with what seem to be broken controllers or displays, I seem to have a few options from cheap to not so much...
1. Try to get warranty parts and fix it using those.
2. Wire up each channel to a manual dimmer and wire power cords for each channel to a timer.
3. Use something like this http://www.boostled.com/product_p/typhon.htm and wire it into each fixture...
4. Go full on reef keeper light with advanced lighting control or reef angel...
My goal, as you would expect, is to get these up and running soon as inexpensively as possible. I worry about 1. above since I'll be replacing the controllers, etc with what was there before that broke after six month of usage. 2 and 3 seem like good short term solutions and 4 looks like a good solution for the long run...
As I am pretty new to this, I'm looking for suggestions,
Aaron
Well, in the last 12 hours or so, I've learned more about LEDs than I ever wanted to know
As some of you knew, I bought 3 LED fixtures from a member for a great deal yesterday. I knew from the git go that there would be work involved with making them functional. I had assumed that there was only an issue with the largest of the drivers but I believe that on at least 2 of them, the controller or the display pad is bad as well as the power button doesn't seem to work at all. The drivers seem to work as I tested them without the controller (9 volt battery as the dimmer) and the lights lit up... and bright. I can't lie to you, I am not smart enough to figure out how to work the controller panel anyway. On the one that does work, I can get the power on and not much more...So,for the ones with what seem to be broken controllers or displays, I seem to have a few options from cheap to not so much...
1. Try to get warranty parts and fix it using those.
2. Wire up each channel to a manual dimmer and wire power cords for each channel to a timer.
3. Use something like this http://www.boostled.com/product_p/typhon.htm and wire it into each fixture...
4. Go full on reef keeper light with advanced lighting control or reef angel...
My goal, as you would expect, is to get these up and running soon as inexpensively as possible. I worry about 1. above since I'll be replacing the controllers, etc with what was there before that broke after six month of usage. 2 and 3 seem like good short term solutions and 4 looks like a good solution for the long run...
As I am pretty new to this, I'm looking for suggestions,
Aaron
