Daisy chain wiring help

sofaknlo · Nov 26, 2019

So I want to install ports on my leds to daisy chain them. Next I have 2 marsaquas and a sbreef 32, can I daisy chain all 3 or only marsaquas. Help me. Also to make the ports do you just double let up on th wiring and make 2 ports that are identical??

Flippers4pups · Nov 26, 2019

sofaknlo said:
So I want to install ports on my leds to daisy chain them. Next I have 2 marsaquas and a sbreef 32, can I daisy chain all 3 or only marsaquas. Help me. Also to make the ports do you just double let up on th wiring and make 2 ports that are identical??

Are you using household timers? If so, then use a three way plug for each channel/timer and plug the blues from the Mars and the blues from the SB into it, then into the timer. Same for the whites for each light.

Make sense?

sofaknlo · Nov 26, 2019

Yes that makes sense but i dont wont to daisy the power. I was trying to hook these up to my apex. Running out of variable speed ports so was gonna minimize them down to one port

Flippers4pups · Nov 26, 2019

Sorry, I don't have a Apex. Let's see if anyone else has ideas.

sofaknlo · Nov 26, 2019

Flippers4pups said:
Sorry, I don't have a Apex. Let's see if anyone else has ideas.

Thanks. Ive looked around not much info on it

Flippers4pups · Nov 26, 2019

Bump.

Michael Lane · Nov 29, 2019

I've daisy chained 8 Mars Aqua lights that I've modified to run from reef-pi's PWM output. I like to use mini-xlr connectors.

You can probably do something very similar by wiring the connectors together and pig-tailing to whatever you are using to inject a control signal into the lights. Some pictures might help, too.