2quills
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Originally Posted by 242bats http:///forum/thread/386777/led-s-are-the-best#post_3400052
ok now i know what you are talking about the charging of the (caps) in the driver. what will i see or how do i check to see if thay are all coming on at the same time. with the rapid controler the leds all come on a the same time and go off at the same time. now with that said after turning the power is turned off to the drivers i get a flash from the leds, but not all at the same time, just one at a time. so that must be the (caps) discharging. so do thay charge in the same order????? and if so i should be ok???
thanks
If the leds are all coming on at the same time that means the drivers are all firing up at the same time I would think. They may flash at different times when they go off but the initial inrush current to charge them would/should all happen essentially at the same time. And as Acrylic51 mentioned an even bigger concern than the inrush current is the harmonics that all of those drivers produce. The actual damage that can be caused is not always apparent. It could mean you may start seeing other electrical appliances on the same circuit start to crap out well before there time. And the continuous heat that is produced would be slowly degrading the wiring in your home. How long is not really known it just all depends on different variables in your particular situation. It could just simply mean that the wiring in your walls lasts only 20 years instead of 30. Or it could mean that your house may potentially catch fire a year from now. Or you may find that your breaker starts triping every time the fixture fires up a month from now. No way to really know for sure, just saying that the potential for these things is real and it is there. So I'm of the mindset that if it can be built safer then why not just do it that way.
Originally Posted by 242bats http:///forum/thread/386777/led-s-are-the-best#post_3400052
ok now i know what you are talking about the charging of the (caps) in the driver. what will i see or how do i check to see if thay are all coming on at the same time. with the rapid controler the leds all come on a the same time and go off at the same time. now with that said after turning the power is turned off to the drivers i get a flash from the leds, but not all at the same time, just one at a time. so that must be the (caps) discharging. so do thay charge in the same order????? and if so i should be ok???
thanks
If the leds are all coming on at the same time that means the drivers are all firing up at the same time I would think. They may flash at different times when they go off but the initial inrush current to charge them would/should all happen essentially at the same time. And as Acrylic51 mentioned an even bigger concern than the inrush current is the harmonics that all of those drivers produce. The actual damage that can be caused is not always apparent. It could mean you may start seeing other electrical appliances on the same circuit start to crap out well before there time. And the continuous heat that is produced would be slowly degrading the wiring in your home. How long is not really known it just all depends on different variables in your particular situation. It could just simply mean that the wiring in your walls lasts only 20 years instead of 30. Or it could mean that your house may potentially catch fire a year from now. Or you may find that your breaker starts triping every time the fixture fires up a month from now. No way to really know for sure, just saying that the potential for these things is real and it is there. So I'm of the mindset that if it can be built safer then why not just do it that way.
