I am new to this site and very new to wiring leds. I have a new home I built and in anticipation of wiring for low voltage led lighting, put a fair amount of cat5e in the walls.
My first large endeavor is to wire undercounter lights and I plan to make my own lighting using 2 luxeon style stars for under each cabinet -- 5 cabinets total. The stars I have are 3 watt, 650 milliamp and have a forward voltage of 3.6 to 4 volts.
If possible, I want to have a rocker style on off switch for each cabinet and a master dimming control using a pwm kit.
To supply the led systems I have a small bank of 12 volt batteries that will be recharged through a solar panel. I also plan to place a voltage regulator prior to the supply of the cat5e in order to limit the maximum voltage.
I plugged info into a resistor calculator which suggested the resistor value for each of the arrays should be between 6.8 and 8.2 ohms but does not suggest a wattage.
I have attached a rough wiring drawing -- please excuse my lack of proper symbols on the drawing.
I would appreciate any thoughts on my rough wiring drawing as well as suggestions for a pwm dimming kit/method as well as suggested wattage for the array resistors. Also, if I am way off base on this and it can not be done with one dimmer, please let me know.
Many thanks,
Joe H
My first large endeavor is to wire undercounter lights and I plan to make my own lighting using 2 luxeon style stars for under each cabinet -- 5 cabinets total. The stars I have are 3 watt, 650 milliamp and have a forward voltage of 3.6 to 4 volts.
If possible, I want to have a rocker style on off switch for each cabinet and a master dimming control using a pwm kit.
To supply the led systems I have a small bank of 12 volt batteries that will be recharged through a solar panel. I also plan to place a voltage regulator prior to the supply of the cat5e in order to limit the maximum voltage.
I plugged info into a resistor calculator which suggested the resistor value for each of the arrays should be between 6.8 and 8.2 ohms but does not suggest a wattage.
I have attached a rough wiring drawing -- please excuse my lack of proper symbols on the drawing.
I would appreciate any thoughts on my rough wiring drawing as well as suggestions for a pwm dimming kit/method as well as suggested wattage for the array resistors. Also, if I am way off base on this and it can not be done with one dimmer, please let me know.
Many thanks,
Joe H