Woody Mackay-
Umm, yeah kinda lol. Got the first lot of LED's, ordered the last lot on Tuesday just gone. I went looking for a dimmer that would work with the Mean-Well's and stumbled across a small electronics company up in QLD. Talk about service! sent a very short E-mail telling them I had 16 MW drivers, 208 Cree LED's and was looking for a dimmer. The guy sends back a bloody book saying he assumes we have wired them this way, blah blah group's with blah blah banks running blah blah amps at blah blah temp. Totally threw me. So I took the time to explain what LED's I had, how they would be wired and what we where looking for in a dimmer/controller. He sends back another book saying ditch the MW's and get 8 of another brand, (will find the name) Gives me the price of them, company name, address and phone number, "just get them from here" Recommends wiring them in this way, Three paragraph explanation on how to, only then does he go on to explain what HE can do and charge for. So much info given and leaves himself till last.
They would make a controller that will......
4 adjustable channels (CW,NW,RB,B)
Manually adjust each channel to where we want it
Switch it to auto and it will starting turning on the 1st channel till it reaches the setting you entered manually,
Then start the 2nd channel till it reaches the setting you entered manually,
Then the 3rd channel till it reaches the setting you entered manually,
Then the 4th channel till it reaches the setting you entered manually,
After a set adjustable amount of time, start turning everything off in reverse order,
No sudden drop off, true fade out to "0" on all channels,
Then repeat every day, or just leave it in manual and piss ass around with it myself.
Does other things also but I cant recall this early in the morn, I may add some more functions, dunno.
The electronic board stuff is mounted in its own box that can be hidden away where ever, the control panel is mounted in another smaller box and be remote mounted no more the 5M away from the board. All boxes are screen printed and finished off to a professional standard. All this for about $500 plus the cost of the power supplies. Which I would have had get 16 MW's. Will take two weeks to make so I'm REALLY hoping we can get it done before Christmas.
That's about thus far,
Anyone's thought's on the above please ?
MagicJ - I need more time in the week man!!