layzer1
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Hello,
I am trying to understand best practices for power injection and how much load can be put on a cable before frying it. I have an F16v3 with 2 power supplies (PS1/PS2), to power each side of the board and using 12v pixels.
I have a strand of 400 lights I want to connect to port 1 and each port can only support 5amps before blowing out. This puts me at around 6.6amps on port 1 based on .055w/pixel and @30% brightness which puts me over the 5amp fuse. I have attached a drawing help illustrate my question.
In scenario 1, i connect 4 strands (100pixel/strand) and cut off power at pixel 200 and connect pixel 201 using the same power supply (1) with a fused wire to avoid blowing out the 5amp fuse on the F16v3 port 1.
In scenario 2, I connect 4 strands (100pixel/stand) and power inject between pixel 200 and 201 using the same power supply (1). My question in the scenario is, since the F16v3 can only handle 5amps out of port 1, if I power inject between pixel 200 and 201 using same PS1, will this be an issue with the amp on port1? Will using the method be an issue with too much amp load on the 18awg wire from all 4 strands connected to each other? What is the max amp load on 18awg when connecting multiple strands of lights?
I am trying to understand best practices for power injection and how much load can be put on a cable before frying it. I have an F16v3 with 2 power supplies (PS1/PS2), to power each side of the board and using 12v pixels.
I have a strand of 400 lights I want to connect to port 1 and each port can only support 5amps before blowing out. This puts me at around 6.6amps on port 1 based on .055w/pixel and @30% brightness which puts me over the 5amp fuse. I have attached a drawing help illustrate my question.
In scenario 1, i connect 4 strands (100pixel/strand) and cut off power at pixel 200 and connect pixel 201 using the same power supply (1) with a fused wire to avoid blowing out the 5amp fuse on the F16v3 port 1.
In scenario 2, I connect 4 strands (100pixel/stand) and power inject between pixel 200 and 201 using the same power supply (1). My question in the scenario is, since the F16v3 can only handle 5amps out of port 1, if I power inject between pixel 200 and 201 using same PS1, will this be an issue with the amp on port1? Will using the method be an issue with too much amp load on the 18awg wire from all 4 strands connected to each other? What is the max amp load on 18awg when connecting multiple strands of lights?