CXB3590 grow light keeps shorting out

Hi everyone, hope I can get some much needed guidence.
Purchased a DIY kit from cutter in 2016. 11 cobs.
All running nicely until today.
When I entered my growing room the lights where out. After a couple of minutes realised that the issue was my light, they tripped my breaker.
Now I cannot seem to find what the issue is.
I was day away from the flip to 12/12.

Also I smelt burning kind of smell when I tried to use another RCD before it clicked over. RCD is still working fine.

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Stay green said:

Hi everyone, hope I can get some much needed guidence.
Purchased a DIY kit from cutter in 2016. 11 cobs.
All running nicely until today.
When I entered my growing room the lights where out. After a couple of minutes realised that the issue was my light, they tripped my breaker.
Now I cannot seem to find what the issue is.
I was day away from the flip to 12/12.

Also I smelt burning kind of smell when I tried to use another RCD before it clicked over. RCD is still working fine.

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Connections all nice and snug? I assume the ideal chip loks are what you're using? What's RCD?

Stay green said:

Hi everyone, hope I can get some much needed guidence.
Purchased a DIY kit from cutter in 2016. 11 cobs.
All running nicely until today.
When I entered my growing room the lights where out. After a couple of minutes realised that the issue was my light, they tripped my breaker.
Now I cannot seem to find what the issue is.
I was day away from the flip to 12/12.

Also I smelt burning kind of smell when I tried to use another RCD before it clicked over. RCD is still working fine.

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Do the lights turn on still?

Airwalker16 said:

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Connections all nice and snug? I assume the ideal chip loks are what you're using? What's RCD?

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residual current device. Added a pic.
Checked all the wiring, all snug. Yea using the ideal chip.

Ryante55 said:

Do the lights turn on still?

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No, keeps Tripping the breaker.

Stay green said:

residual current device. Added a pic.
Checked all the wiring, all snug. Yea using the ideal chip.

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I have a hypothesis that those chip holders , over time, lose pressure on the cob itself thus the graphite pad you most likely used right? Those things gotta be being pressed down on to work.

Stay green said:

No, keeps Tripping the breaker.

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That's strange any new electrical appliances in the house? If your house breaker is flipping it's probably not the lights fault try moving the light to another room see if it trips that breaker.

Airwalker16 said:

I have a hypothesis that those chip holders , over time, lose pressure on the cob itself thus the graphite pad you most likely used right? Those things gotta be being pressed down on to work.

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I was thinking high voltage from over heating would over power the driver but neither one of those ideas should trip a breaker right?

Ryante55 said:

That's strange any new electrical appliances in the house? If your house breaker is flipping it's probably not the lights fault try moving the light to another room see if it trips that breaker.

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I have tried that, the light keeps Tripping the breaker. Any other appliance works fine.

Ryante55 said:

I was thinking high voltage from over heating would over power the driver but neither one of those ideas should trip a breaker right?

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Those holders are screwed into place.

Have you put a meter on the dc side?

Stay green said:

I have tried that, the light keeps Tripping the breaker. Any other appliance works fine.

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Do you mean the rdc breaker? Sorry I'm just not sure how that driver can have enough power to trip a breaker even the smaller breakers are like 15a right?

Ryante55 said:

Do you mean the rdc breaker? Sorry I'm just not sure how that driver can have enough power to trip a breaker even the smaller breakers are like 15a right?

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Yea so sorry, rcd breaker.
I thick it's the driver? But how to test?

Stay green said:

Yea so sorry, rcd breaker.
I thick it's the driver? But how to test?

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I bet your rdc breaker is broken

Ryante55 said:

I bet your rdc breaker is broken

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Just ran it without and after I heard a pop sound, no light.
Now it doesn't trip nothing seems dead completely. So whatever was being protected by the rcd is now dead.
Rcd works fine on many other outlets.

Stay green said:

Just ran it without and after I heard a pop sound, no light.
Now it doesn't trip nothing seems dead completely. So whatever was being protected by the rcd is now dead.
Rcd works fine on many other outlets.

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Driver probably died I've never seen that brand but I've had a couple meanwell drivers fail

Ryante55 said:

Driver probably died I've never seen that brand but I've had a couple meanwell drivers fail

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They're not as bulletproof as one might think, for I too have had 3 occasions where I had to ship a driver out for warranty. 2 of which were for the SAME driver.

But damn man popping is never good.

Do you have a multimeter to use for some testing?
Although at this point I think we can all agree his drivers the culprit here.

Just throwing in a supplement light and veg until I pick up another driver.
I'll post what happens,
Thank you all so far.

If all the cobs look good on the surface, no black spot, no crack, then it should be the problem of the driver, here is the link of the driver, it should still be under warranty.
http://qxw1608770029.my3w.com/en/pro_main.aspx?id=A7E4888F1E16013E