Scotch089
Well-Known Member
Finally got my xpl V5s in the mail yesterday, after 6 weeks. Found some time to work on putting them in today and wrapping up the critiques on my "ACF1" lol putting the new Cool Whites in and putting on the rest of the relfectors. Got everything soldered back together and that last deep breath you take before seeing if it all works out. Well...kind of.
So the series is complete and over half the string would light up. K. But what the fuck? 3x 670 XPEs, 1x 3k AB, and 1x 6k XPL won't illuminate with the rest.
Calling my boys supe, positivity, and any others with some helpful insight to this simple mistake.
Things I have done:
-tested each individual emitter to make sure they didn't pop, I DID hear a click when I first turned it on. Never heard this any other time and doesn't do it now when I turn it on and off. All emitters still lit up with the test current from my multimeter, only one obviously I couldn't test was the AB
-Checked the connections that each emitter was lighting up solder point to solder point.
-tried dimming the drivers so they were maxed or drawn down to make sure my numbers weren't off in the spreadsheet with voltage.
-kicking it
-tossing it
-licking it
Etc.
One question I have is if one emitter IS blown, would that disrupt the string and cause a "black out" if wired in series unlike in parallel? (So I can eliminate that God awful option)
-second, can you harm drivers? I mean...Wtf???
@Positivity @SupraSPL @bicit @alesh
So the series is complete and over half the string would light up. K. But what the fuck? 3x 670 XPEs, 1x 3k AB, and 1x 6k XPL won't illuminate with the rest.
Calling my boys supe, positivity, and any others with some helpful insight to this simple mistake.
Things I have done:
-tested each individual emitter to make sure they didn't pop, I DID hear a click when I first turned it on. Never heard this any other time and doesn't do it now when I turn it on and off. All emitters still lit up with the test current from my multimeter, only one obviously I couldn't test was the AB
-Checked the connections that each emitter was lighting up solder point to solder point.
-tried dimming the drivers so they were maxed or drawn down to make sure my numbers weren't off in the spreadsheet with voltage.
-kicking it
-tossing it
-licking it
Etc.
One question I have is if one emitter IS blown, would that disrupt the string and cause a "black out" if wired in series unlike in parallel? (So I can eliminate that God awful option)
-second, can you harm drivers? I mean...Wtf???
@Positivity @SupraSPL @bicit @alesh