I don't trust myself on this, so help is appreciated. This is related to my post about using LED strip lights in my home's crawlspace...
LED strip light (24Vdc) uses 5w/ft. To keep it simple, assume a 100' total wiring distance, with 10 one foot LED strips spaced 10 feet apart (so 10 LED strip "lights", each one foot long). The strips will be connected in parallel, so I will use a T-tap every 10' to wire a one foot strip into the buss. So what wire gauge do I need for this to keep the brightness close to the same for all lights? FYI... I don't know what the maximum voltage drop allowed is for the strips. There are voltage drop calculators that give me the drop if there is only one light, but I don't know how the other lights in parallel affect the overall circuit.
If I instead use two 50' runs with five lights per run (both runs wired to the same transformer in parallel) instead of one 100' run, does that cut the voltage drop in half.
Bottom line is I'm trying to find the most efficient way to wire up a grid that is about 35' x 100', using one or maybe two transformers.
Thanks,
Ira
LED strip light (24Vdc) uses 5w/ft. To keep it simple, assume a 100' total wiring distance, with 10 one foot LED strips spaced 10 feet apart (so 10 LED strip "lights", each one foot long). The strips will be connected in parallel, so I will use a T-tap every 10' to wire a one foot strip into the buss. So what wire gauge do I need for this to keep the brightness close to the same for all lights? FYI... I don't know what the maximum voltage drop allowed is for the strips. There are voltage drop calculators that give me the drop if there is only one light, but I don't know how the other lights in parallel affect the overall circuit.
If I instead use two 50' runs with five lights per run (both runs wired to the same transformer in parallel) instead of one 100' run, does that cut the voltage drop in half.
Bottom line is I'm trying to find the most efficient way to wire up a grid that is about 35' x 100', using one or maybe two transformers.
Thanks,
Ira