I am primarily a residential electrician, but I have a customer who wants his large shop wired up with 30 LED strips( http://www.mobern.com/Specifications/44LEDseries.pdf ). He also wants them dimmable. I have no experience with this and haven't found a good resource for learning more about it. These strips are 57watts, 6400 lumens, and 0-10v driver. On a 20 amp circuit I should be able to run all fixtures together. My question is in the dimming. Can all these be dimmed together with one switch? And am I simply running a 3-wire low voltage line together with my nm wire, jumping in and out of each fixture? Any help is appreciated.
Beginner LED dimming help
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I did contact Lutron, and from what they described to avoid having to have a lighting panel and everything I could simply use 3 DVSTV switches(one per row) and that should be sufficient. I still am not positive about the actual wiring as I do not have the lights yet to look at. But it does look like I will just be running a 18/3 wire along with my nm. One in and one out of each fixture.
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Google is your friend!
http://www.lutron.com/TechnicalDocumentLibrary/369147b.pdf
scroll down for wiring schematic.
http://www.lutron.com/TechnicalDocumentLibrary/369147b.pdf
scroll down for wiring schematic.
Thanks for the link. So if I'm reading this correct it does look like I am just running a power line and a low voltage line in and out of each fixture to the next, correct? Also it does not specify what wire I should be using for lv. Would 18/3 be sufficient in your experience?
Edit... I meant 18/4. It seems I only need 2 wires for switch, but I have 18/4 tstat wire already. I guess I'm asking is that sufficient or do I need stranded, shielded, etc? There will be nothing else running on the ceiling but these lights and the runs will be no longer then 120'.
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