1. I don't think it matters which one is negative and positive.
Doesnt matter. Resistance between the two is all that matters.
The one on the driver controls the base levels. The dimmer just dims the driver level adjustment to zero
Sounds accurate. I just hope the screw patterns are the same.
So I said that correctly? I wasn't totally sure.
You did. If you dial down the driver, the dimmer just goes from there to zero
I was lazy and didn't tin any of my wires. I was just careful with the wires and twisted the ends like I always do.
if you dont want to solder, you can just crimp some small female spade connectors onto the wires and slide them on the pot. If they arent super tight a pair of pliers will fix that
My pot already had the wires attached so I just spliced the two wires together and taped it up. I know you're supposed to use solder, but I rarely ever do. I've always installed my stereo equipment and car alarms like that and never had an issue.
Not probably an issue. Just a bad connections are potentially more resistance, so dimming may be effected. If your light dims to zero, or you are just running it dimmed and turning it off at lights out you really have no worries.
Mine won't go all the way to zero. It goes as low as 10%, so my 260 watt drivers can be dimmed to about 26 watts on the ones that have the pots.
Sounds like you have a low budget potentiometer, or the wiring is lousy. Most meanwells will dim to zero.
It was the pot that HLG sent me. The driver is an XLG, and I think they only dim down to 10%.
That rings a bell. havent been building anything lately but some dont dim to zero
Dim ends do have polarity, the Potentiometer doesn't and the more resistance or voltage applied the more current you get.
A lot only dim to 10%. Some (or most) a-types dim to 50%, right?
I was actually really happy to see the last 2 260's they sent me had the XLG's. I was expecting to get the HLG's that came on my earlier 260's. The first 2 don't have the pot, so I can only dim those to about 50%.
Yeah...they are cheaper so a no brainer. I was a little shocked when I got it...but I guess they switched their 260 kits.
Nice. This is what I did to mine. I threw a piece of shrink wrap tubing over my splicing job.
