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Dimmer overcurrent and/or dimming up -> dying or blinking erratically


Whswede

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I have a FGD-212 controlling a LED-strip via a hide-a-lite led-driver. Lately it has started to act up.

Two scenarios and lately almost always the first one only:

1. When turned on for the default of 1% power it lights up fine but after a few seconds it starts to dim up to 99% and and then shuts down due to over current.

2. After a few hours burning the strip starts to flicker, blinking erratic for minutes and then turns of due to over current

 

The strip is two 5 meter 12 volt Amazon-strip from Subosi. Divided into two 3 meter long sections, totalling 6 meters and 48 watts at 100% power. 

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The LED-driver is a Hide-a-Lite SLD75-12VL-E

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As I have no other driver, strip or dimmer to try with at this point I am curios if someone knows the most likely source of the problem? Driver, strip or Dimmer2 ?

 

The FGD-212 is reset and I have run start up calibration successfully several times. I have tried a lot of different settings on parameters I think could affect performance. 

 

I am running HC3 latest firmware (not beta). Strip is super bright and therefore 1% power is sufficient for the effect lightning I use it for. 

Edit: Looks I have updated the HC3 to 5.141.59 (beta) unknowingly but issue has been around for several weeks now...

 

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  • Might have found one error on my own reading the specs for the driver. It states min load is 12 watts. I suppose 1% of 48 watt is low then :)

    Interesting it has been working for over a year ... 

    Should I consider putting a dimmer on the 12 volt side instead? I.e adding a resistor leaving some heat load instead but getting the LED-driver to use some more power? Actually I could then run the FGD-212 as on/off only and lock the dimming level on the 12 volt side. ( I never need to adjust dim level thinking of it)

     

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  • Problem solved. When trouble shooting I found a second led-driver connected. This led-driver is not used so likely a mistake from the installer thinking it could be operated from the same dimmer2.  It was put there to have everything prepared for future light installs. I disconnected it, ran auto calibrate again and now all works fine. I see now the led-strip pulls 7-8 watts at 1% level. Working fine despite the 12 watt low limit. 

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