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Therrion

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If you run with the dimmerleads open then even a bit more, about 10% extra current.
I would do that, but I have 24 of the chilled logic pucks for a 10' x 5' scrog . I have to dim them or I would be blinded working around my plants. I hate wearing those grow light glasses.
 

ANC

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I would do that, but I have 24 of the chilled logic pucks for a 10' x 5' scrog . I have to dim them or I would be blinded working around my plants. I hate wearing those grow light glasses.
I hate when I need to lift the LEDs above eye level... that streak of dots pattern it burns is plenty annoying.
 

xombie

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So YOU believe adding a resistor will give you more power than running an open circuit?
From what I've heard running with a less-than-max wattage actually increases efficiency, no clue if that applies here, just throwing that out there. Maybe not more power, but more efficient.
 

PrometheanLeaf

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Yep. Follow me and you might learn something. I've been teaching eatled all week. :)
I might, but I can't see how physically adding a material link in the mechanical chain could increase conductivity, without coating the entire housing in a more conductive substance than originally built.

Not that I'm not often wrong... or kind of high and took the comment as a joke cause it made me laugh. I am tired and I'll check back in the morning to see if I can learn anything neat about pots and resistors.
 

ChiefRunningPhist

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I might, but I can't see how physically adding a material link in the mechanical chain could increase conductivity, without coating the entire housing in a more conductive substance than originally built.

Not that I'm not often wrong... or kind of high and took the comment as a joke cause it made me laugh. I am tired and I'll check back in the morning to see if I can learn anything neat about pots and resistors.
It decreases conductivity
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The higher the resistance the greater the current flow... Dude said to add 10kΩ to a dimmer POT to make sure to get all of the driver because most dimmer POTs are a few % off and the drivers normally have a little extra to go..
 
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