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Hi all,
I bought 4 of the meanwell HLG-240-48b drivers and I finally have 2 of them wired up to my LED array. I have 1 running 6 strings of 11 (66) XP-G cool whites and the other driver running 5 strings of 12 XP-E royal blues (60). This is half my led array. I have the reefled dimming kit (2 pots in the case). I have these wired up and when I put a meter on the pot outputs, I can see the volts go from 1 - 10, I also see the voltage change on the wire that I am running to the blue (+) wire of the driver. When I turn the pots up and down, the LEDs get brighter and dimmer but my concern is that each string is running about 600 to 1000 mA and I can not get them to turn down any lower than 600. I know I need to balance my strings but my concern is that these do not dial down to the 200 or 300 mA range. I do not think I will ever want to run these up in the 800 - 1000 mA range. Can anyone throw me any suggestions on why they will not dim below 600mA?
Here is the basis for my parallel wiring layout. IGNORE THE RESISTORS in these diagrams. I only have a 1 OHM 5 watt resitor per stinrg
I bought 4 of the meanwell HLG-240-48b drivers and I finally have 2 of them wired up to my LED array. I have 1 running 6 strings of 11 (66) XP-G cool whites and the other driver running 5 strings of 12 XP-E royal blues (60). This is half my led array. I have the reefled dimming kit (2 pots in the case). I have these wired up and when I put a meter on the pot outputs, I can see the volts go from 1 - 10, I also see the voltage change on the wire that I am running to the blue (+) wire of the driver. When I turn the pots up and down, the LEDs get brighter and dimmer but my concern is that each string is running about 600 to 1000 mA and I can not get them to turn down any lower than 600. I know I need to balance my strings but my concern is that these do not dial down to the 200 or 300 mA range. I do not think I will ever want to run these up in the 800 - 1000 mA range. Can anyone throw me any suggestions on why they will not dim below 600mA?
Here is the basis for my parallel wiring layout. IGNORE THE RESISTORS in these diagrams. I only have a 1 OHM 5 watt resitor per stinrg

