Leds blinking

shane reef · 07/31/2012, 03:34 PM

Was wondering why my rb leds blink? I am running 8 on elm-60-48p and ddc-01 pms dimmer. On max they are set at 800mv as I start to dim them the will start to blink. Any help will be great.

Eman79 · 07/31/2012, 03:45 PM

I had the same problem. I was told that this is a protection mode for the driver as the current (or voltage, I don't remember) has dropped below the lowest usable for the driver. There are 2 solutions

1) Don't dim so low. For example, I started and stopped dimming at 60% power, which was high enough to prevent the blinking. (this was my temporary solution until I completed solution #2)

2) Add LED's. I added 4 LED's from 8 to 12, and can now dim to zero without any blinking.

shane reef · 07/31/2012, 05:42 PM

How many are to many in 28g nano?

07/31/2012, 03:34 PM	#1
shane reef Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 77	Leds blinking Was wondering why my rb leds blink? I am running 8 on elm-60-48p and ddc-01 pms dimmer. On max they are set at 800mv as I start to dim them the will start to blink. Any help will be great.

07/31/2012, 03:45 PM	#2
Eman79 Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Denver, CO Posts: 73	I had the same problem. I was told that this is a protection mode for the driver as the current (or voltage, I don't remember) has dropped below the lowest usable for the driver. There are 2 solutions 1) Don't dim so low. For example, I started and stopped dimming at 60% power, which was high enough to prevent the blinking. (this was my temporary solution until I completed solution #2) 2) Add LED's. I added 4 LED's from 8 to 12, and can now dim to zero without any blinking.

07/31/2012, 05:42 PM	#3
shane reef Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 77	How many are to many in 28g nano?