Typhon Controller Help

[Spendley]

Hey guys,

Not sure if this forum will cover this - all I see is mostly Apex but (I think) those are more complex so maybe I can get a quick answer here - I just set up my LED kit, which came with a Typhon Controller. I believe I have it all set up correctly, but I want to learn how to use the Typhon as it was intended to simulate sunrise / sunset.

Four buttons - Menu, Select +, and -

Setting Mode > Timer , All Channels ON, All Channels OFF, Custom
-----I believe I want the custom setting, allowing me to set the channels to different intensities)

Channel 1 Start (Set start time - 24 hour clock)
Channel 1 End (Set end time - 24 hour clock)
Channel 1 Fade (Set fade duration in minutes for both sunrise and sunset)
Channel 1 Max (Set Max Level - light intensity)

Channel 2, 3, 4 have same options.

Hypothetically - could I just use Channel 1 and say start at noon, end 10pm, have 30 min fade, intensity at 50%...

What are the other channels for? I think my main question here is about the channels. Do they have to do with the physical location of where stuff is plugged in? Or since I have something plugged in, will all four channels cover that?

I am dumb, I can provide pictures to make this easier for all of us!

Thanks for any assistance provided, greatly appreciated.

 

[trido]

There are four channels on the controller so you can have four channels on the light fixture or two channels on two different light fixtures.

On my first DIY fixture I did have four channels programmed to ramp up and down separately. On the six foot DIY fixture I'm using now I use three channels.

This is so you can keeps your blues and whites separate to control the K rating of your tank also.

 

[Spendley]

I would love to be able to have my blues on channel 1 and whites on channel 2. Photo above is the wire that connects to Typhon, on the other end of that I have a wire that split into four, I used two of the four wires to connect to port #2 of the drivers.

 

[Spendley]

Crisis averted. What had me confused was for whatever reason channels 3 and 4 control my lights.