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They're here My order was delivered by the USPS this afternoon, all in great shape. Thanks for doing this Kevin. Now just have to buy the LOR DC board when the sale rolls around in June.
Yesterday a friend of mine stopped over to give me his LOR DC board which he's not going to need.
Now I just have to go dig up one of the landscape lighting transformers. I haven't seen them since the fence blew down during a hurricane a few years ago...
Thanks Kevin -- mine were delivered today as well. Knew I was in trouble when I did not receive one of the "easy" boxes - I'm trying, but I can't get the little blue battery with the stripes on it to light up these lights no matter how hard I try.
Those were batteries right?
Seriously though, thanks for letting me participate.
jmccoh wrote: Thanks Kevin -- mine were delivered today as well. Knew I was in trouble when I did not receive one of the "easy" boxes - I'm trying, but I can't get the little blue battery with the stripes on it to light up these lights no matter how hard I try.
Those were batteries right?
Seriously though, thanks for letting me participate.
Those are special batteries so don't hook them up backwards.
"When you believe a thing, believe in it all the way" - Walt Disney
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Let your light so shine before others...
ChuckHutchings wrote: Yesterday a friend of mine stopped over to give me his LOR DC board which he's not going to need.
Now I just have to go dig up one of the landscape lighting transformers. ...
Perhaps I am reading too much in to the above . . . but I have to say it anyway. If I am wrong, I will say sorry now. . . .
A transformer puts out "AC" , and you can't use it with a "DC" board. You would probably remove all the smoke out of the output MOSFET's and its darn hard to put it all back in! Trust me!!
I give this warning as in our country ALL landscape lights (excluding LEDs?) are feed with AC using a transformer. There are VERY good reasons for NOT supplying DC to landscape light, the main one being the extra cost of a (DC) POWER SUPPLY over a (AC) TRANSFORMER but not forgetting the less likelihood of electroysis with AC compared to DC . . .
If I am wrong in joining these 2 paragraphs, then, I am sorry . . .
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kamahilights wrote: A transformer puts out "AC" , and you can't use it with a "DC" board. You would probably remove all the smoke out of the output MOSFET's and its darn hard to put it all back in! Trust me!!
Yeah - I noticed that when I dug it up. I guess I'll either use an old PC P/S or rig something to convert this to DC.
But the transformer WILL work on the MR16's since they are AC/DC.
Last edited on Tuesday April 1st, 2008 01:55 pm by ChuckHutchings
"When you believe a thing, believe in it all the way" - Walt Disney
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Let your light so shine before others...
Ahh, that explains the problem. Kevin uses tan batteries.
Actually those are Richards small Utah tan batteries. In Washington we
use the big blue ones.
____________________ Kevin Thomas
"When you believe a thing, believe in it all the way" - Walt Disney
99,999+ lights - 500+ channels - FM100B http://www.ChristmasInKent.com
Let your light so shine before others...
Mine arrived yesterday and all I can say is Wowwwwww!!! I could not wait to see them in action so I hooked up a 9V battery. At that voltage I could not look at the blue directly for the brightness!!!! I can hardly wait to give them proper power and get a DC board to animate them with!!!
Thank you soo much for organizing this buy. My only regret is that I did not order more. Maybe there will be a group buy IV.
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My order was delivered by the USPS this afternoon, all in great shape. Thanks for doing this Kevin. Now just have to buy the LOR DC board when the sale rolls around in June.
