Hydros 0-10V Dimming for Quanta Helix Lights

[MarinTherapy]

Hello,

Just wanted to see if anyone had success using the 0-10V output on the WE to get Hydros to dim Quanta Helix Lights?

The lights themselves are marketed as 0-10V dimming and come with a DIY +/- terminal cable along with a potentiometer cable that both connect directly to a variable voltage meanwell driver.

I've been using the potentiometer to dim and that works perfectly, but recently decided to buy a 3.5mm Hydros Quad cable along with a +/- to female 3.5mm adapter to try and automate it using my wave engine. I set up two lights outputs on the hydros app, one set up as simple light with output to the XP8 AC outlet, the other as a variable light, with the black/brn (1/2) 3.5mm quad cable outputs(For each of the two light bars).

So far, when the WE sends a voltage signal above 1V it turns the light on at 100%, If I set the voltage below 1V or 0V, the light turns off. So its been acting more like an on off switch and no real dimming.

Does anyone have experience setting up dimming on a Quanta Helix light?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

 

[Slowandstupid]

Yes, I am running two helix lights without any issue (along with 4 Atlas lights). Here is how I have mine set up.



I don't remember if it was the same for the helix but on the atlas the youtube video guiding how to wire it up had the 2 wires mixed. When I wired it that way it resulted in things not dimming like they should. When I switched the wires everything worked fine.

 

[Ryley_GC]

I just wired on my helix lights on 0-10v. I can confirm that in the Quanta video, the wires need to be switched from what the video indicates for the hydros to dim properly.

 

[MarinTherapy]

Hi All,

Switching the wires to the opposite sides (white to (-) and Black to (+)) seems to have worked! I have the mono adapters attached, which seems fine, but I will switch to the stereo ones since that seems to be what everyone else is doing, and I want to stay on the safe side. Thanks all for the help!

 

[MarinTherapy]

Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to provide a final update on this, along with a bit more detail on how I got things working.

I wanted to make sure I have everything set up correctly regarding the polarity of the dimming wires for my Quanta Helix reef lights, and not just flip the wires without testing.

With the lights on and the driver's dimming port connected to the two bare wires that come with the lights, I used a voltmeter to test the polarity.

I plugged the black lead into the COM slot and the red lead into the VΩmA slot on the meter, set it to DC volts (20 V range), and touched red to the white wire and black to the black wire. The reading came up around –12 V. That negative sign told me the probes were reversed relative to the actual polarity, so I knew white is the negative/return (DIM–, ground/sleeve) and black is the positive (DIM+, tip/L). This was the opposite of what I’d been told before, but once I rewired it that way, everything worked perfectly!!

Just to be on the safe side, I also swapped out the female 3.5 mm adapters I was using. Originally, they were mono with just +/–, but I changed them to stereo adapters with R/L/S ports. It seemed to work fine with the mono adapter at first, but I figured using stereo would avoid any weird issues down the line.

Hope this helps anyone with this issue!

Thanks again,

 

[Sparkey]

How did you wire it to the hydros quad cable?