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Re: CANLight - A CAN based LED strip controller

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Originally Posted by frcguy View Post
Huh - I've never seen that setup before. Have a photo and/or wiring diagram to show how you have it set up?
Looks something like this:

http://i.imgur.com/er8Aq4e.png

We figured out it was possible after realizing that the two pairs of wires coming out of Talon SRX's were electrically identical (literally soldered to the same spot), we hypothesized that because of this the actual point the connection is made should be irrelevant and after a bit of digging came across the Star Topology. The biggest issue was finding an adequate grounding bar to use, as most are not shielded and/or made for very large gauge wire. The grounding bars we ended up using were still a bit overkill (rated for like 400A DC) but worked very well once hooked up. The only problems we ran into were caused by poor crimps in the ring connectors we had attached to the CAN wires.

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