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12v wire and connector advice - joining several motifs
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[QUOTE="i13, post: 78135, member: 21708"] This sounds difficult but not impossible. Unless you specifically chose them for this purpose, I strongly suspect your light sets are low voltage but not as low as 12V. I did similar to you but with string lights when I converted to computer control in 2013. The controllers I now use replace the 8 function controllers that come with the light sets. Some of these 8 function controllers rely on ripples in the voltage from the original plugpack for timing purposes so they may not be compatible with a new power supply. A second problem is that each light set is likely to require a slightly different voltage even if the voltage labels are the same. I was able to hack string lights and icicles to fix this problem but it was a long and time consuming process that requires some (but not too much) background knowledge. Ropelights are different and I no longer use them because I prefer strips. The third problem is if you decide to replace the 8 function controllers (after all, they may not work with a new power supply), some newer light sets only have 2 wires between the controller and lights. The polarity is reversed to control the lights within the light set. So yes, you could get string lights and icicles working with computer control and a central low voltage system. The computer control replaces the 8 function controllers. Any light sets with two wires coming out of their 8 function controller will not be able to share a new controller with the others but you can have them in the same display setup. As you don't want computer control, you would probably be better just extending the cables between the components of the existing light sets. [/QUOTE]
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