hey guys for the life of me I can’t get this kit to power up both boards. My friend had the pieces purchased individually and not in a kit so I’m struggling to get this working and I can’t figure out the source of the issue I’m watching the video on the HLG website that shows how to assemble the kit which I’m already familiar and confortable with but I can’t get both boards to run. I re route the wiring to one board and it powers right on but I can’t get them both going once I link them. I did it exactly how dude in the video did where I ran red to a positive on one board and black to the negative on the other then daisy them with a short wire between the boards positive to negative. I even tried routing the driver straight to one board then daisy both boards in both available ports rather than one like the video and still nothing. I’m using spare wire from 2 135v2 kits so could the wire be the issue? Is this driver correct? I see in the video on HLG product page he has a 240H like me but his is 240H-C1050A and mine is 240H-48A. Both seem similar but have their differences. I’ve attched pics I would seriously appreciate any input because we called their customer service direct and holy fuck was the guy was compete dickhead with an attitude problem so I will not be taking that route again.
i've done this way already with no luck. the picture probably shows wiring after me trying a few different routing methods
i'm concerned about the driver, it's not the same one they use in the videos but basically has damn near exact specs but i'm not qualified in this field to confirm if that is the issue or not
the picture i posted is me routing to one board to confirm something would work and it did so disregard that layout. i did try the way a couple videos recommended including the one posted above with no luck
word, yeah i just got a 260 kit and used that video. Fired right up. Youll definitely get some better help. Im still a noob, but tons of dudes run QBs on here.
Yeah that’s why this has me thinking it’s the driver causing the issue.. when I route it to any individual board on any of the 3 kits I have they power up instantly but never in unison. I tried multiple drivers on all the kits so it’s been consistent across the board
The driver you have needs to be wired in parallel. Don't wire it like the series constant current drivers. Positive to negative from both boards to the driver. You can jumper through the boards to get parallel wiring but I like to use home runs on both boards.
Start on board 1, from the driver, positive, then out 1 to the negative to board 2, positive on board 2 to negative on board one. Negative to negative on board 1 from the driver.
All you need to do is plug in those 2 wires in pic 1, and the driver to board 1, negative to negative and positive to positive
If this doesn’t work, as it should, fire them up individually to eliminate any part failures. If they both work fine on their own, then it’s probably a wiring mistake.
had to buy sprinkler wire at home depot at 94 cents a foot and strip it to get the red/black out but it works like a charm!