Mean Well ELN-60-48D driver question???

[eveningstar15]

I purchased a Rapid Led solderless coralife biocube dimmable retrofit kit. I got it with 2 of the Mean Well ELN-60-48D drivers and the 3 color dimming kit. On one driver i plan on running 10 royal blue and 2 blue and on the other there will be 8 cool white, 2 uv, 1 red and one green. I know on the blue driver I can only set it to a max of 1000mA since that is the max of the blue leds and on the white driver I can only set it to a max of 700mA since that is the max of the red and UV leds. So my question is when these are first set up do I set them to their maxes (1000 & 700) and use the manual dimming controls to adjust the intensity or do I set them lower and slower work them up?? If I need to set them lower what would be a good starting point????

 

[trido]

You are on the right track. Set the drivers to the milliamps that you want then then use the potentiometer dimmers to adjust the intensity from there.

 

[eveningstar15]

Bump

 

[davejep]

You were right the first time set them to there max with the potentiometer. This will be there output at 100% full on. You then use the potentiometer to dim them to the desired level.

 

[davejep]

Sorry if that's confusing I meant set to 700 and 1000 respectively using your multi meter

 

[Queensreefer]

Everyone is correct in there advice but be careful not to bleach your corals. What optics are you using?

 

[eveningstar15]

Everyone is correct in there advice but be careful not to bleach your corals. What optics are you using?

Right now I am not using optics

 

[Queensreefer]

With no optics you may be limited on what corals you can put in. If possible find someone with a par meter.