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    Posted: March 08 2013 at 7:59am
I am really struggling with my DIY leds and my apex.   Can anyone help?  

I set everything up with a 10 v wall wart set everything.  Put it on the Apex the apex is sending a 1-10 v signal but Leds only have 1 intensity and do not ramp.  

PLEASE HELP!! 
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Originally posted by Erikts Erikts wrote:

I am really struggling with my DIY leds and my apex.   Can anyone help?  

I set everything up with a 10 v wall wart set everything.  Put it on the Apex the apex is sending a 1-10 v signal but Leds only have 1 intensity and do not ramp.  

PLEASE HELP!! 

Have you set your Apex profiles and prgram up? if not it will do nothing. I just spent all night getting my Apex programmed.
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I used radion now but still have the old DIY LED in my apex, it work.
You can stop by take picture of all my setttings in the apex.
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Ya The Apex seems to be doing its part fine... I think it is a problem with the drivers.  I test the voltage from the apex and get a voltage from 1-10 depending on the programming. but the lights never change. just on or off regardless of the voltage. 
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Originally posted by Erikts Erikts wrote:

Ya The Apex seems to be doing its part fine... I think it is a problem with the drivers.  I test the voltage from the apex and get a voltage from 1-10 depending on the programming. but the lights never change. just on or off regardless of the voltage. 

What drivers are you using?
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do you test the voltage at the driver? what is the model number of the driver?
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Meanwell Eln-60-48D  x 5 drivers
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I test the voltage at the driver it never changes just on or off 48 volts
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I have apex controlling diy leds and am pretty close to you. If you wanna stop by and check my programming
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I don't think its an Apex issue I think its a driver issue.  But I may take you up on it if that becomes the issue. 
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From what I understand, it sounds like the problem I had.  I'll try my best to explain what I did wrong.  
On the network cable that plugs into the variable speed ports, i assumed the solid and striped colored wires were paired together.  But upon closer inspection, I noticed the solid green and green stripe wires actually flank the blue pair of wires (the middle two wires). 

Initially, I wired up solid green and green stripe to the dimmer and it was always on.  Once I switched to solid green and blue stripe, the dimmer worked as planned.  Hope that helps.


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thanks I will look at that 
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Nope Cry

I am getting variable power from the apex.  

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Any Other Ideas?
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do you have it hooked up similar to this?
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yes ... but no potentiometer I hook it up to my apex.  I am getting a variable voltage from the apex but there is no dimming on from the leds.  I think I might have bad drivers.  
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have you adjusted the mA on the drivers yet?
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What is your profile setting in your apex for the lights?
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I programmed using these directions
The Apex seems to be working correctly I can test the voltage going to the drivers from the apex and it seems to sending the correct variable voltage for dimming but the leds never change. 

Yes the mA have been set. 
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