Rapidled driver (eln-60-48P) with Apex controller?

[rhwimmers]

It's also here for anyone reading this thread

http://reeftech.webs.com/Apex New User Guide.pdf

comtek - out of each meanwell ballast I have a blue/white/red/black cable. Blue and white cables go to the current rapid led controller, and the red/black are wired in series to the LEDS. In this case, do I take all the white/blue cables out of the controller and wire them to a RJ45 in positions 1,2,5,6?

 

[scolley]

BTW, I do switch my ELNs off after they dim all the way, then power them back up a few minute before "sunrise".

Since that's taking up valuable outlets on your EB8, I've got to ask...

Why? What's the benefit?

Thanks.

 

[Comtek]

It's also here for anyone reading this thread

http://reeftech.webs.com/Apex New User Guide.pdf

comtek - out of each meanwell ballast I have a blue/white/red/black cable. Blue and white cables go to the current rapid led controller, and the red/black are wired in series to the LEDS. In this case, do I take all the white/blue cables out of the controller and wire them to a RJ45 in positions 1,2,5,6?

here is a pic on how to wire them.

 

[hllywd]

Since that's taking up valuable outlets on your EB8, I've got to ask...

Why? What's the benefit?

Thanks.

I didn't want the canopy fans to run all the time, and it was easy to power everything from one outlet so I shut them down.

 

[Comtek]

using the eln60-48p i only dim down to about 15% keeps them from flashing and doubles as moonlight. weak moonlight.
they are barely on at 15% depending on how many you have in a string it may be a little lower or higher

 

[hllywd]

using the eln60-48p i only dim down to about 15% keeps them from flashing and doubles as moonlight. weak moonlight.
they are barely on at 15% depending on how many you have in a string it may be a little lower or higher

For me 15% is way too bright for moonlights.

 

[dnejdl]

here is a pic on how to wire them.

will the MeanWell CLG-150-48B work with this ?

 

[souperman]

For me the Meanwells did not dim down nearly enough at the minumum to serve as a mooonlight. I ended up adding a few normal 5mm white LEDs wired up to a resistor and a walwart so I could watch the tank when lights are off.

 

[rhwimmers]

dnejdl - I know you earlier said that apex said they would not work. However - if they will support 0-10vdc then they will work. I emailed rapidled and asked about them being controlled by an apex and they said only the D drivers would work - not the P drivers. However they WILL work, as comtek is doing it right now. So see if you can find the technical manual for that driver and see if its 0-10 capable.
From my understanding - thats all you need...

 

[dnejdl]

sweet thxs bud... ill have to look into it

 

[rhwimmers]

comtek - ok so the blue and white wires in the drawing are truly the blue and white wires coming out of the meanwell driver?

 

[rhwimmers]

Well I finally got around to trying this out. No luck on the first try...
I took a standard network cable and cut it in half. I took the orangewhite (pin 1) and connected it to a wire nut with all of the white wires (coming out of the meanwell 60p driver). I took the orange (pin 2) and connected to all of the blue wires. I plugged the network cable into vs1+2 and did a manual on for both vs1 and vs2, the green leds lit up on the controller but no lights.
Did I do something wrong?

 

[Comtek]

pin 5 and 6 are channel vs1 and pin 1 and 2 are channel vs2
for some reason apex done this backwards
if you can see throught the network plug try to verify that the wires corespond to the right pins.
my network cable had different colors in each spot.
a crossover network cable has the colors crossed on each end. verify wire colors in the cable

this is right from the eln60-48p spec sheet
FUNCTION DIMMING CONTROL (OPTIONAL) 1 ~ 10VDC or PWM signal : 100Hz ~ 3KHz

 

[rhwimmers]

And yours are the eln-60-48P, not 48D, right? I had them all wired up so it shouldnt have mattered which was vs1 or vs2. I checked and its a standard cat5 (ow,o,gw,b,bw,g,brw,br).

I should only have one network cable in one VS port, right? I have 2 physical vs ports, but 4 interfaces. My understanding is pin 1,2 and 5,6 makes up one VS port (one rj45). So 1,2 is VS2, 5,6 is VS1 ?

 

[Comtek]

will the MeanWell CLG-150-48B work with this ?

all i can see is that these driver will not support 0-10v dimming but seen somewhere that they can be dimmed using a potentiometer

 

[rhwimmers]

Theres nothing I need to do to switch the p to 0-10 is there?

 

[Comtek]

nope they accept either one nothing needs to be changed

 

[Comtek]

And yours are the eln-60-48P, not 48D, right? I had them all wired up so it shouldnt have mattered which was vs1 or vs2. I checked and its a standard cat5 (ow,o,gw,b,bw,g,brw,br).

I should only have one network cable in one VS port, right? I have 2 physical vs ports, but 4 interfaces. My understanding is pin 1,2 and 5,6 makes up one VS port (one rj45). So 1,2 is VS2, 5,6 is VS1 ?

correct
you can test the ports by turring them on and checking the voltage from the cat 5 cable pin 5 and 6 ( VS1 )

 

[rhwimmers]

I verified I was getting 10v out of the orange and orange/white along with the bluewhite/green with a multimeter. I did create a ramp up/down profile but really if I just want it to work for testing purposes I just manual on the first 2 options, right?
VarSpd1_I1
VarSpd2_I2
Not sure what else could be wrong. All the whites going to the white/orange or bluewhite and blues going to the solid colors (orange+green)

 

[Comtek]

with the driver plugged in the wall and the leds wired you can apply a 9v battery to the dimming signal to make sure they are working. be mindful of the + AND - on the dimmer wires. blue is + and white is -
a 9v batter will run them at 90%
just for testing purposes.