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Christmas Light Power Consumptions
The following table gives the approximate current
consumption for various types of Christmas lights.
Description Lights/string Amps/string
Mini-lights 50 0.17
Mini-lights 100 0.33
C7 bulbs 25 1.04
C9 bulbs 25 1.5
100 watt bulb 1 0.75
150 floodlight 1 1.25
LED mini-lights 70 0.03
LED C6 or C7 25 0.02
If you put six sets of 100 mini-lights on one channel,
that would be 6 * 0.33 = about 2 amps. If you put
six sets of 70 LED mini-lights on one channel, that
would be 6 * 0.03 = about 0.18 amps. You can see
that you can have a lot of LEDs with very little
power.
Make a chart of all the lights you want to connect to
the controller’s channels and then work out the
numbers to see if you hit any limits.
Lighting Curves
The g3 firmware supports lighting curves. These
are used to allow different types of lights to behave
similarly when dimming. LEDs tend to go from off to
full brightness over a much narrower range of
voltages than incandescent lights. This means that
a fade going from 0 to 100% voltage with an
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incandescent light will not produce the same results
with LED lights. The LED lights will come on later
and reach full brightness sooner than incandescent
lights.
There is a built-in Standard curve for incandescent
lights which behaves as a simple, linear 0 to 100%
voltage provider. This is the behavior seen with
previous versions of the firmware and most DMX
dimmer packs.
There is a built-in On/Off curve. This on/off ‘curve’ is
used on a channel where the connected devices do
not tolerate dimming, for example, the air blower
motors in inflatables. Setting a channel configured
for on/off operation to any intensity 50% or greater
results in 100% intensity or ‘on’. Intensities below
50% result in the channel being off.
Finally, a LED curve is provided which is the
average for various LED colors and dimmable
power supply configurations. This curve is provided
with the software, so if you choose to change it you
can recover the original. It is custom curve 1.
The g3 firmware permits the controller to accept up
to eight downloaded, custom curves.
Each channel is configured with its own curve from
the ten possible curves the controller may have
available.
The default location for curve files is
…Light-O-Rama\DimmingCurves
The curve file names are LOR-Curve01.ldc through
LOR-Curve08.ldc.