Hey guys this is Martin again from SIRS-Electronics.
And today I am going to teach you how to calculate how many strips you can run per power supply.
As the power consumption of the strips related to the power supplies.
We are going to use today the dual density and single density strips compare them to
the 400W power supply as an example.
So let me step over to my white board and I'll show you guys the basic math that we
use to figure this out.
So basically what we are going to be doing is we are going to show you
How to divide the consumption of the strips by the capacity of the power supply.
All of our strips have data sheets which tell you the max consumption at full intensity.
That is for the RGB and for the whites and all different sets of strips either 5050,
3528 all of them have amperage consumption data sheet.
So today we are going to talk about the RGB dual density and the RGB single density.
Just to give you guys an idea on how to do it.
And we are going to compare it all using a 400W power supply.
So the dual density strip consumes right around 48 watts.
Ok and that is at full intensity with all the colors and everything on all the way.
And then the single density consumes right around 23 watts.
Give or take a watt or two and that is pretty much what it is.
We are going to be using a 400 watt power supply.
This right here the 400 watts that is the capacity of the power supply.
But you never want to run it at full capacity because what you run risk of getting it too hot
And that will shorten the life of your power supply.
No to mention other issues that could arise from that.
So now that you know your power supply capacity and how much of it your strips consume.
Then you can figure out everything out using very simple math.
So the way you do it you get the capacity of the power supply which is 400 watts.
And then divided by the 48 watts that the strips consume.
This is the 48 watts for the dual density strip.
Once you do this basic math problem it comes out to about 8 give or take.
So that is 8 dual density strips that you can put on there.
And you'll like "ok great I can just put 8 of them in there no problem" right?
But the issue with doing that is that you are going to be running your power supply
at full capacity.
And you know we already talked about the issues with that.
So you can get thermal issues and a bunch of other issues that it is best to avoid.
So now that we know 8 is one-hundred percent if we do 6 that will be 75 percent of your capacity.
So we do 6 dual density strips RGB Strips.
Ok.
That will equal to right around 350 watts or so.
That right there is about 75% capacity of the 400 watts which would be perfect to run
the strip at.
So 6 strip would be the maximum that you could run safely without running into any issues
or anything like that.
So the same procedure goes for the single density and for pretty much any other strip.
Whether is a 400 watt power supply we also have the 96 watt the 200 watt and the 150
watt water proof power supply.
So it is a safe procedure.
All you got to so is plug-in the numbers.
Let's say it's a 96 watt power supply and you are using single density strips.
You put in 96 watt 23 watts down here for the single density and then
You get you maximum number and then you calculate that to get a 75 percentage capacity.
80 percent that is pushing it.
And that will give you how many strips you can do safely.
So that is pretty much all there is to it.
It is a very simple math problem that you can use.
So there is not a whole lot of crazy science or anything like that.
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