skimmer problem update, but now another problem.

[Assyrian fish guy]

so I had to drill 12 1.5 inche wholes in my sump to drop the water leave 3 inches, and that gave me the room I needed to get my skimmer working right. have to be honest this is the first time am seeing my skimmer work this good. but not another problem.

I think everyone remembers the trouble I and many others had getting our led back from luis. Will I got them back, but didn't get what I paid for. I have 6 diff power cords for each driver, and there's no usb or earthenEthernet cable to connect my lights to my controller. I wanted to see if s anyone knows someone who can help me fix this.


thank you.

 

[Assyrian fish guy]

anyone have any idea's?

 

[Confuse]

Buy yourself an ATI LED hybrid and call it a day. Haha

Do you even know if the drivers are dimmable? Usually, you can connect all the power cord cables together; like all grounds and all lives into a single power cord that plugs to the wall that powers all the drivers.

 

[mark.a.smith405]

PM schnitzel he has done a couple big builds and would know what to do.

 

[SchnitzelReef]

I'm gunna guess that Luis used maxwellen drivers, and those are NOT dimmable by your apex. If he used ELN drivers, you would need some sort of 1-10v power supply to turn your LEDs on. It would look like an old cell phone charger or something similar. If you don't have one of those, your prolly shet out of luck.

Your best bet would be to tie some of the cables together and use 2 or 3 different ones as a sunrise/sunset.

Like at 9am 2 led drivers turn on, then at 11 2 more and so on.

 

[Confuse]

Seeing the kind of leds he used and his craftsmanship, I'd just trash it and start over.

 

[Assyrian fish guy]

I'll just use the ati fixture without the led for now. don't want to trash it all. spent a good amount of money on the fuxture, and paid that SOB a good deal too.

I was thinking. if there are manually dimmers on tge fixture. doesn't that mean those drivers can be dimmed by a controller?

also is there anyone willing to take a look at them?

 

[reefes pieces]

texted you bro

I'll just use the ati fixture without the led for now. don't want to trash it all. spent a good amount of money on the fuxture, and paid that SOB a good deal too.

I was thinking. if there are manually dimmers on tge fixture. doesn't that mean those drivers can be dimmed by a controller?

also is there anyone willing to take a look at them?

 

[lowbudget]

thumbs up to you shawn...

texted you bro

 

[SchnitzelReef]

I'll just use the ati fixture without the led for now. don't want to trash it all. spent a good amount of money on the fuxture, and paid that SOB a good deal too.

I was thinking. if there are manually dimmers on tge fixture. doesn't that mean those drivers can be dimmed by a controller?

also is there anyone willing to take a look at them?

No it doesn't. The maxwellen drivers use those style of dimmers.

 

[Assyrian fish guy]

shawn is going to come by. so am hoping he can point me in the right direction

 

[SchnitzelReef]

shawn is going to come by. so am hoping he can point me in the right direction

Could probably replace the drivers. How many LEDs do you have?

If there are 6 drivers (6power cords), then pickup 6 ELN 60-48d drivers ($20-$25 a piece). I know Luis wired LEDs in series, so switching out the drivers would be super easy. Have Shawn run them all off of one power cord. Just make sure u get the appropriate size.