Recent content by matt_65

I'm ok with that, I was initially going with SSRs close to lights but once I factored in the price of enclosures and network cable I figured for the 24V lights running speaker wire is way cheaper. For my 240V lights I will be putting the SSRs as close to the lights where possible.

Hi all, I am assembling my controller (Grinch) and SSRs onto a piece of MDF and wanted to find out what are my options for the sharing of power. So my SSRs have incoming, one half of the lights connect to the SSR and the other to a neutral wire. As I have 8 SSRs (this year, plan to double...

Probably not something the normal person has around there home, we have a Brady Bmp21 labeller at work. Apart from it being an awesome labeller, the labels themselves are heat, water, UV and I believe (some) chemical resistant. I printed my name for my coffee mug, ay dishwasher loads (and...

Just got a 100 of the suckers from eBay for $9 and cable ties for $1. Be too late for this weekend but will install them after I have put up the lights. Thanks heaps for your help. Matt

They look interesting. Are these the ones you are talking about? http://australia.rs-online.com/web/p/cable-tie-mounts/0219875/?origin=PSF_412529|alt [/size] [/size]What sort of spacing do you use?

I am outlining my roof with mini lights and wanted to know how others affixed their lights to roofs. I will be running along the top ridge line, and down the sides. We have concrete tiles. Thanks, Matt

Ah the inline bit was probably where I was going wrong, Ill give it a go tonight. Matt

Great, I have just finished wiring up one of the toroids and it powers up nicely and my set of test lights power up too :) I am not sure of the amps that are being outputed, the lights don't appear very bright and I am not sure if that is how they are. I can use my multimeter to see that 21V...

There only 12V, at least that is what I thought. I am under the impression that they are 12V and you can run two of them in parallel to get double the amps (12V @ 25A) or serial to get double the volts (24V @ 12.5A), have I mis-understood this? Seeing your diagram the wiring makes a heap of...

Great thanks for that David, and thanks for the mounting info, as both rubbers were on the one side I thought that was how it was mounted. To make sure I understand, I connect the black wire from toroid 1 to the yellow wire of toroid 2, I then connect the live 240V wire to all 4 blue wires...

OK, here is the label on the side. The blue wires are much easier to bend then all of the other wires, they are of a smaller diameter. Thanks heaps for your time and patience with this. Matt

The toroid is a MT2130 from Jaycar (http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=MT2130&keywords=toroidal&form=KEYWORD), image is attached. [/size] [/size]Their engineering catalogue has a wiring diagram (attached) I have the fittings for one, but will need to go back as the other one didn't...

Hi all, I have recently got me 2 12V-0-12V 300VA toroids and am having some trouble working out how to wire them up. They have 6 cables (orange, yellow, red, black, 2x blue), I want them to be in series so that I can get 24V @ 12.5A. I have 3-core electrical cable, I guess the red from the...

Re: Adelaide Mini Interest 2012 Depending upon dates and stuff, but I should be able to attend given enough time to organise kid sitters. Vixen 3 sounds interesting (currently use 2.1), and the other topics sound good too.

Howdy there, Matt from Paralowie, Adelaide. For the last few years I have been building a Grinch setup, wasn't quite ready for this Christmas but do hope to have a few strings up next year. I have built a few Grinch's, SSROZ, and LEDTriks, I hope to have a 100-odd channel setup for 2012. I...