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- lwillerton - 05-02-2017
Hi All.
Has anyone tried to power a RGBW strip from an output directly?
Looking at the web one site seems to suggest the there is a draw of 60mA per meter per colour.
Alternative solution would be 4 relays and an external psi.
Regards
Lee
- slychiu - 05-02-2017
If the LEDs are 12 volts and ypu can connect the 12V in common with the anodes and the outputs to the cathode, this should work
But never tried
- Swiss-Toni - 05-02-2017
Do not do it the power drain is to great, you have to know the lenght of the light strip and do the calculation, But I do know Comfort cannot support more than a meter, seriously would not recomend that you do this. Depending on the length get a CCTV cabinet with minimum 1.5A per channell which can be doubled up if required.........
Update:
On the whole RGB (not rgbw)consume aproximatly 1amp per meter and if I remember rightly Comfort transformer is only capable of 450m amps which is less than half an amp so you will be looking at problems taking power source from there!