Lighting Correct Parallel Circuit using Wagos?

[Marty McFly]

Using a HLG-185h-24a driver to 4 SolStrips. Is it a correct Parallel Circuit to connect (from driver), the positive to a 5 wire wago, the remaining 4 to the strips and vice versa the negatives side?
Thanks AFN Members

 

[wwwillie]

Using a HLG-185h-24a driver to 4 SolStrips. Is it a correct Parallel Circuit to connect (from driver), the positive to a 5 wire wago, the remaining 4 to the strips and vice versa the negatives side?
Thanks AFN Members

Hey,
Not to sure from your description. I always think of parallel as a ladder and series as a circle. Does that help?

 

[Banjacked]

Using a HLG-185h-24a driver to 4 SolStrips. Is it a correct Parallel Circuit to connect (from driver), the positive to a 5 wire wago, the remaining 4 to the strips and vice versa the negatives side?
Thanks AFN Members

If I'm reading right, you basically put all the positives together in one wago and all the negatives together in another?

If so, that's parallel, otherwise you would have taken the positive from the driver to the first strip, then neg to pos from strip to strip and the negative from the last strip being the return to the driver to get a series connection.

 

[Marty McFly]

Thanks Guys! Yes that helps. I guess I was concerned if the Wagos would provide the correct circuit.
My goal here is to build a light with above mentioned HLG-185h-24a driver to power those 4 strips to start. Then later adding the exact same driver and 4 more strips, to allow me to run a warm spectrum driver and 1 cooler spectrum.
I'll probably mount them in a 18"x26"x2" 12gauge aluminum baking pan. Running at no more than 50w a strip I think heat should be ok, but I planned ahead already for heatsinks.
But must a LED be mounted directly to the heatsink? Or could it be mounted on the backside of the aluminum?

 

[Banjacked]

Thanks Guys! Yes that helps. I guess I was concerned if the Wagos would provide the correct circuit.
My goal here is to build a light with above mentioned HLG-185h-24a driver to power those 4 strips to start. Then later adding the exact same driver and 4 more strips, to allow me to run a warm spectrum driver and 1 cooler spectrum.
I'll probably mount them in a 18"x26"x2" 12gauge aluminum baking pan. Running at no more than 50w a strip I think heat should be ok, but I planned ahead already for heatsinks.
But must a LED be mounted directly to the heatsink? Or could it be mounted on the backside of the aluminum?

I found a page where someone looks to have done something similar to what you're doing, and he put the strips straight onto the baking pan.

I have, at this moment, 72W of 12v led strip on a 7.8" x 10" metal plate with no heat issues whatsoever. You're going to be running more power than my little panel but since you're using a much larger lump of metal for mounting then, personally, I can't see a need for heatsinks because that baking tray will be the heatsink and such a large surface area should dissipate a fair old amount of heat itself. You can always mount a heatsink and fan, or two, to the tray later if you think it's getting too hot