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Wiring; Split Coindoor and LED Marquee Wires...?
RoninEditor:
I'm hoping to wiring my coindoors and LED marquee tomorrow... I'll be the first to say that I'm a total neophyte when it comes to anything involving electricity and/or a current. I'm looking at this link for coindoor wiring...
http://joelsgadgets.com/CoindoorPage2.HTML
Seems pretty self-explanatory, especially with me having a power supply splitter that I got with my LED marquee light (from Randy). My question, though, is do I use the splitter to pull power with the red and black wires, then sub-split those into the coindoor and then to the light, as two different chains? Or do I chain them all together?
Or is there some other way...?
RoninEditor:
Going once...? haha
protokatie:
--- Quote ---is do I use the splitter to pull power with the red and black wires, then sub-split those into the coindoor and then to the light, as two different chains? Or do I chain them all together?
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Maybe the reason why noone replied is that your wording may be a bit confusing.... Are you asking if you should wire them in parallel or serial? I dont think I understand your question.... (for most multiple uses of a power source, parallel is the option you should use)
Please clarify...
RoninEditor:
Sorry about that... hopefully this will be more clear...
...from my computer's power source there are the various little wires, namely, the red and black wires that I need to wire to the red and black wires from my LED Coindoor lights, and I also have to wire to my red and black wires in my LED marquee light. So, one originating power source (the computer) and the two 'receiving' (A-coindoor light, B) marquee light). So my question is, is it okay to just split the wires (one going to the coindoor lights, the other going to the marquee lights)? Or, do I go from the coindoor lights, in a chain, then up to the marquee light... in one chain.
Hopefully that is a little easier...? I'd just try it but I'm afraid or frying something.
Fozzy The Bear:
--- Quote from: RoninEditor on May 01, 2008, 04:36:04 am ---Sorry about that... hopefully this will be more clear...
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First of all..... is your Marquee light 5V or 12V ???? are your coin door lights 5V or 12V???
Are they both the same voltage rating???
second... the attached diagram shows series and parallel wiring and the results of it. Ignore the wire colours on the diagram. They are just there to show positive and negative current. They do not nessesarily relate to the wire colours on your devices.
You can see from the diagram, that if you wire them in series the Voltage gets devided between the devices you are connecting. If you connected 4 devices this way, then the voltage at each device would be 3V. The other downside to series wiring is that if one device fails they will all turn off, and you'll have a devil of a job finding which one is dead.
Look at the second diagram. This is Paralell wiring. Each device is getting the full 12V from the supply and if one device fails then the others will still be on.
Hope that helps..... Do check the voltage of the devices you are connecting to that supply. Red and black wires out of a PC supply are usually 5V not 12V. Yellow and black are usually 12V.
Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
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