Getting back into reefing. Starting a Nuvo20 & have a NanoBox Duo 4 channel with moon Light. Need to replace the drivers, driver board and fan driver. How ever I was looking to be able to control it using the hydros 0-10v out. Is this even possible and if so how would I go about converting it.
Thanks in advance.
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Hi. I'm sorry to double post, but it seems that Nanobox (Dave Fason) is no longer in business and perhaps my question will not get answered in the Nanobox forum. I would like to connect two Nanobox Duos together to a single Nanobox driver box. My driver box runs with a 48V power supply and has 6 ...
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Just need to replace the ldd drivers with ones that "do" 0-10V dimming.
Good thing is in that link you can see the drive currents they used. Need to figure out which channel uses what
2- 500mA, 1- 300mA and 1- 700mA
you have the 5 channel model 2- 500mA, 2-300mA 1-700mA
So moonlight is 300mA I assume. Below driver limits out at 3V. IF moonlight is one royal blue. V(f) may be under 3v. may be an issue.
Gets pricey though.
The 0-10V dimmable constant current driver is DIP adjustment, with the feature of Multi-current with dip swith selectable. A wide DC voltage 3-42V. The output current range is from 100mA-450mA.
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5 drivers is $174.80 4 is $147.20
Now for the catch
1) you have no 700mA. 450max
2) need to verify voltage of the led strings. Orig power supply is 48V soo strings shouldn't ever be more than about 45V. The max voltage out of the above driver is 42V. 42V may or may not "work".
The black "driver" separate from the others in the above is a 12v fan power supply not an led driver)
You can hunt for other drivers that will fit better but except for cheap chinese ones on ebay you may not find one cheaper than $35.
Most are AC/DC drivers which is why thay are costly.
Not familiar w/ DC/DC drivers with 10v analog dimming. Sure there are some but ?? to me. Would (should) be cheaper.
I have ZERO knowledge on what you would need to do on the Hydros side except all you would be using is the 10V dimming channel.
Now for OPTION 2. Convert the 10v signal to 5V PWM.
Then you just need to feed it to the LDD board.
BUT there is a catch.
Board above has a very high PWM frequency (about 50KHz). Well out of range of an LDD (100Hz -1KHz).
I posted it just so you are aware of the limitation
Soo you can use this:
$25 for 4 channels
Again how to program the Hydros as a programmed controller is beyond my knowledge.
But to boil it down.. Hydros to Steves.. Steves to Nanobox like you would hook the bluefish up to.'
Need to power Steves board (12v 250mA should do it.Can be more mA but and actually different voltage but for the sake of simplicity) so one extra power supply.
Need to disconnect the bluefish from inside the "black box" IF you have that box not the bare kit.
Side note: looks like the 2 boards have the channels in series.
Been using the light for a year now. Took it apart to clean and currently waiting for David to get back to me on how to rewire and add mint led. I have a defective laptop LCD display around took it apart Use the layers as light diffuser.
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