Hi all,
Was spending some time in the front yard today diagnosing why our mega tree looked like it was severely lacking power. We've got multiple injection points, so I didn't think it was a matter of needing more power, so decided to check what voltage I was getting from the PSU itself. When all lights are turned off, it's sitting at around 5V exactly. As soon as I start turning on some of the strands, the voltage being put out starts decreasing - to the point where if all lights are on, it's down to 4V.
Am I missing something here? I thought as long as the PSU was set to 5V and it had the capacity, it should push out 5v on each output, with each output just consuming more of it's load? Other PSUs seem OK, so not sure if this is just a PSU that's dying or what...
Was spending some time in the front yard today diagnosing why our mega tree looked like it was severely lacking power. We've got multiple injection points, so I didn't think it was a matter of needing more power, so decided to check what voltage I was getting from the PSU itself. When all lights are turned off, it's sitting at around 5V exactly. As soon as I start turning on some of the strands, the voltage being put out starts decreasing - to the point where if all lights are on, it's down to 4V.
Am I missing something here? I thought as long as the PSU was set to 5V and it had the capacity, it should push out 5v on each output, with each output just consuming more of it's load? Other PSUs seem OK, so not sure if this is just a PSU that's dying or what...