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Unread 05-18-2012, 06:41 PM
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Re: Robot Lighting

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Originally Posted by Tom Line View Post
Those are very nice, but we never have open PWM slots. We do have open solenoid connectors though, and this 16 foot long strip works beautifully:

http://www.amazon.com/Zitrades-Flexi...86079&sr =1-1

Be careful though, it's near the upper rule-legal limit for total wattage. The rule is 21W for the 4 slot crio solenoid breakout, and this runs 20 mA * 100 * 12V = 24W. You can trim leds off the end to make it match whatever available wattage you have. It's bright as all get-out. You can see one here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielernst/7001842862/
(it's much brighter than shown in the photograph)
We used very similar LED strips this year and last. We've generally run them directly off of the Power Distribution Board, or through a Spike if we wanted to be able to trigger them on or off.
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