Frozen Fish Feeder

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Hello all.... so I decided to try my hand at a frozen/refrigerated food feeder....I retro fitted 2 mag stirerrs into a mini fridge and soldered the aviation connector for the drive ports.....I plugged in to the X2 .... turned the stirrer on and it started to work then shut off turned on and shut off.... the X2 then began to breath red. Any assistance would be appreciated. Was my solder weak? Did I wire it wrong? I put the black cable on the top pin
 

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This is the stirrer I'm using
 

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Hello all.... so I decided to try my hand at a frozen/refrigerated food feeder....I retro fitted 2 mag stirerrs into a mini fridge and soldered the aviation connector for the drive ports.....I plugged in to the X2 .... turned the stirrer on and it started to work then shut off turned on and shut off.... the X2 then began to breath red. Any assistance would be appreciated. Was my solder weak? Did I wire it wrong? I put the black cable on the top pin
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If black was on top and red on bottom pin when oriented in that position then it sounds correct. Is there any possibility you had excess cable or solder shorting the pins together? Or something else on the second drive port which exceeded the 1.5A cumulative max and caused it to go into overload? Do you happen to have a video depucting the led behavior? Tend to believe you may have had red leds indicating some other condition but not actually breathing red. UNLESS you coincidentally experienced a reboot upon powering the stirrers. But even then a reboot would probably have been rainbow followed by red then yellow then normal blue.
 
That stirrer is showing to be a 120v AC stirrer. The drive port is only a 12v output. That will not work unless I am missing something.
 
Ok I think I found that one on Amazon it appers to have a C type USB port. If so those are 5v inputs and not 12v. You would need a 12v car adapter between the drive port and the stirrer to drop the 12v output down to 5v for the USB port input.Also if the 5 watts is for the unit when drawing 5 volts that is one amp of current which is also the max on a drive port unless it is on one of the controller with higher current drive ports.
 
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Yes it is a USB C type port...I'll start looking for a car adapter....the controller was breathing red so I figured it was shorting out.....but so far so good....the fish feeder is working great without the stirrers at the moment
 
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