Trouble dimming LED with Mean Well Driver via VDM

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I'm new to the VDM and dimming LEDs so I would like to lay out everything I've done and see if anyone can please tell me what the problem is.

I have an LED pendent that was sold as Apex Ready. It has a Mean Well HLG-120H-36B driver. That driver was three cords: 1 is the power cord, 1 connects to the LED pendant, and one has an RJ45 jack for connecting to the VDM module.

If I plug the light in without connecting the RJ45 to the VDM the light turns on at 100% intensity. If I plug the RJ45 into the VDM the intensity of the light appears to be about 10% of max.

I had initially intended to create three profiles: Sunrise, High noon, Sunset. But, since I ran into this issue with me not being able to control the light via the VDM I decided to first just get it the light to output 100% intensity when the RJ45 from the driver is connected to the VDM.

I am plugging the RJ45 from the driver into the V1/V2 port of the VDM. I have attached images of my driver, VDM, and screenshots of my programming.

Please let me know if you have any solutions to this. Thank you.



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Problem solved. Had nothing to do with Apex or Apex programming. The cables that were sent to me to connect the driver to the VDM were pinned wrong.
 

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