diy led help

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spiffyfish

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so i purchased a 24 dimmable led kit from aquastyleonline. i got half of it wired up in series, and went to test it the driver buzzes but none of the light come on. there is a little over 3 volts out the driver when measured with a multimeter. in the below picture is how i wired it up. anyone with experience with these? ps: i am not a microsoft paint pro, sorry for the cruddy picture.


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spiffyfish said:
so i purchased a 24 dimmable led kit from aquastyleonline. i got half of it wired up in series, and went to test it the driver buzzes but none of the light come on. there is a little over 3 volts out the driver when measured with a multimeter. in the below picture is how i wired it up. anyone with experience with these? ps: i am not a microsoft paint pro, sorry for the cruddy picture.


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The photometer will only let it turn on when its dark or covered.

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Double check your wiring for short circuits ect.. There's either a problem with your wiring, the potentiometer, or the driver itself.
 
care to explain what you mean by when testing with a multimeter you have a reading over 3 Volts?? what type of driver you're using and how many volts is the driver's output? is it giving you a voltage more than the listed output voltage? you might have wired the potentiometer incorrectly or your circuity wiring incorrectly.. double check that and make sure the driver without load is giving you a constant of 12volts or 24Volts. then connect it back to your driver with the correct polarity..
 
Which driver did you get? They offer multiple different ones....

Check the wiring very carefully. I've shorted out LED drivers on accident by hooking up both '+'s or both '-'s by not being careful. Your paint picture shows the very 1st LED hooked up wrong (both '+'s connected).

Double check that every wire is going from + to -.

Also I believe most of those drivers are only designed to drive 12 LEDs. If you have 24 LEDs connected to a driver that is only supposed to drive 12 LEDs, then they won't turn on.

HOWEVER, in that case, you should still see ~44 volts at the driver output, it just won't be enough voltage to light up the LEDs, or they may light up very dimmly.

If the output is only showing 3 volts, then my guess is the potentiometer is not hooked up correctly.
 
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