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Re: Robot Lighting

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Originally Posted by Jeff Waegelin View Post
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.
That's the way we started doing it, but this year they made a nice change that lets you runs loads off the solenoid board. I was very happy to save the wiring and weight of a spike.