Quote Originally Posted by DreadedHermie
What are the dimmers doing in the circuit now? Is there a voltage drop across them at wide open? I can't believe 6 ft. of 16ga would drop the voltage that much. I will pretty much have to take yer word for it, though, since I dropped my freakin' Fluke!
They drop from 11.3V to 10.8. 'bout a half a volt when full-on.
The wire drops .7V from 12 to 11.3.
Might have to use the dimmers to tone it down.
It's still throwing off a lot of heat. Room is hittin' 95. F.
Gonna turn it down to 1 amp at about 10.5 or 10.6 V.
That's still 100Watts of 660 and 30 watts of 460nm.
At least until the new fans arrive.
Was actually building it to raise 2 new super bean seedlings.
But the last three beans I popped threw balls on the flop.
Need any pollen?

Must be a newer Fluke, yah?.
Dropping don't bother the old ones.
Got two that I've used since the '70s
Rode 'em hard, put 'em away wet.

That's back when John D. Fluke made them for the love of it.
Interesting story.
Mr. Fluke was not getting rich producing fine, almost unbreakable meters.
He got talked into hiring a pair of "business consultants"
to find out what was "wrong" with his company
In short, they concluded that he, John D., was the problem:wtf:.

Made the product too damn good and too damn durable.
Kicked him out, took over the business, made a profit.
Also made meters, sort of.
It's just never been the same.

See if ya can't find a used, old one on ebay.

Oh, and it's your move.

Aloha,
Weeze