Ok I have a quick question for all you electronic enthusiasts. I am currently running both led drivers off of one power cord. I have the live connections twisted together and the neutral cons twisted together and then run off one extension cord to a timer. If I were to run each driver individually would the LEDs run brighter? Am I losing voltage an thus losing lumens from my LEDs? I would think not in ac but I don't want to rip it all apart to do it over again if it won't make a difference
Splicing ac drivers
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Pretty sure you are OK. Hopefully you are not using a dollar store extention cord though. Do you know what gauge cord you are using?
Darryl_V
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AC is run in parallel which means it is not affecting volts, watts, amps.....
You are fine doing that..... unles syou are running small 24 extension cord gauge wire you will have no issues.
The brightness of the leds is determined by the current put out by each driver. These are constant current drivers so they will always put out the same current no matter what you have hooked into them,, with in reason of course. If the driver senses that the current is lower than the setting, it will up the voltage of the driver output until the current is raised back to the set Point.
This all happens on the output of the driver and has no effect on the AC side of things.
The brightness of the leds is determined by the current put out by each driver. These are constant current drivers so they will always put out the same current no matter what you have hooked into them,, with in reason of course. If the driver senses that the current is lower than the setting, it will up the voltage of the driver output until the current is raised back to the set Point.
This all happens on the output of the driver and has no effect on the AC side of things.
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