Acuity Brands eldoLED POWERdrive 50S-M4Z0X, Design Manual

Page 1: ...July 30 2020 POWERdrive 50W DESIGN GUIDE...

Page 2: ...nd DMX OUT connections for the luminaire 8 DMX Wire type 9 Grounding 10 DMX Input isolation 10 4 Driver protections 10 5 Mechanical installation 11 Driver Lifetime 11 Sound 12 Grounding 12 6 Driver co...

Page 3: ...LED output can be programmed in 1mA steps between 150mA and 1400mA Consult the product datasheet for detailed information on the acceptable operating window of the driver The cumulative output power o...

Page 4: ...s Instead consider using a twin cable ferrule to connect multiple small wires e g DMX wiring together for insertion into a connector pole POWERdrive DMX 4 LED group 4 control channels Figure 1 A POWER...

Page 5: ...orward voltage and or current over the full operating range of the luminaire Figure 4 shows LED load configurations that are not acceptable for a POWERdrive LED driver In particular multiple LED outpu...

Page 6: ...annot be connected in series to support an LED load with a forward voltage 55V POWERdrive DMX Multiple LED light engines cannot have separate cathodes but share a common anode POWERdrive DMX Multiple...

Page 7: ...plications where the LED driver is not mounted in or near the luminaire that is powered by the LED driver From a functional point of view though the distance between a POWERdrive LED driver and the LE...

Page 8: ...ensure trouble free operation close attention must be paid to the DMX wiring within a luminaire as well as in the DMX network itself To facilitate daisy chaining of multiple DMX luminaires in a DMX n...

Page 9: ...gnal wires within the luminaire Check the DMX512 A standard for the technical requirements on DMX cabling In general a DMX cable contains a twisted pair with a low capacitance and a nominal characteri...

Page 10: ...to prevent damage to the driver during operation These protection mechanisms include Thermal protection When the internal LED driver temperature exceeds a factory preset limit the output current on al...

Page 11: ...for any one LED output cannot be programmed above 1400mA The other limits cannot be enforced when programming a POWERdrive LED driver since these are dependent on factors that are beyond eldoLED s con...

Page 12: ...ive LED driver is a fully programmable digital LED driver that is designed to support high speed multi channel color lighting applications In addition to traditional LED driver settings e g drive curr...

Page 13: ...ogrammed current to each LED output LED outputs can be set to active or inactive via the Group Scaling settings in the Control section of FluxTool see Figure 8 In a variety of luminaire applications e...

Page 14: ...tput power of a POWERdrive LED driver Power Scaling is enabled via firmware in the POWERdrive LED driver and can be configured in FluxTool To illustrate the concept of Power Scaling consider a 50W POW...

Page 15: ...r the sum of DMX setpoints for all four LED outputs exceeds the Power Scaling value x N where N is the total number of LED outputs that are active see Figure 8 Power Scaling reduces the output current...

Page 16: ...tput is tied to a separate DMX address Network channel count 4 Figure 10 b reflects the scenario where all LED outputs are tied to a single DMX address Network channel count 1 Figure 11 demonstrates h...

Page 17: ...ttings for a POWERdrive LED driver is required 7 Best Practices To reduce the likelihood of issues in the field it is best to communicate clearly how a DMX luminaire is configured to the specifier con...

Page 18: ...Tunable White Dim to warm does the controller need to ensure that total power rating of the fixture is not surpassed or is protection inherent in the driver configuration Figure 12 shows an example of...

Page 19: ...input in step 3 then 4 Isolate the driver from the LED load Test the LED load to verify that it operates properly 5 Verify the load is connected properly to the driver a Correct polarity b no cross co...