Power Supplies Australia was recently contacted by a customer, who was wiring 4 MEAN WELL 24V 180W LED drivers with 3-in-1 dimming to a commonly used lighting control system to power RGBW LED strip.  The system in question utilises a 0-10V output to …

We were contacted by a customer, who had a MEAN WELL battery charger in his caravan. After replacing the batteries, he found that the charger was constantly running and wanted to know why it wasn’t shutting off. MEAN WELL battery chargers are usually set …

We recently had a customer ask if we recommend earthing the 0VDC from the V- DC output terminal of  MEAN WELL DIN rail power supplies . Or, would we recommend leaving the DC output floating, so it is isolated from protected earth?  In terms of safety, the …

Power Supplies Australia stocks the MEAN WELL DDRH series of DIN rail DC to DC converters with a wide input voltage range of 150~1500VDC late April.    MEAN WELL DDRH-60 DC to DC Converter   There are 3 power output options to choose from: 60-Watts …

True Sine Wave inverters are sometimes referred to as Pure Sine Wave inverters. Like all inverters , true sine wave inverters take direct current (DC) from a battery, solar panel or other generating source and convert it into 240V alternating current …

You can mount your MEAN WELL battery charger any way you like – up, down, left, right – no problem.    MEAN WELL NPB-360 Series Battery Charger   However, there are a couple of things to think about.   Firstly, the battery charger should be mounted where …

Many LED downlights have electronics integrated into their design, which regulates the current being supplied to the LEDs. This type of LED downlight requires a constant voltage type LED driver. Constant Voltage LED Drivers If you intend to use a dimmable …

LEDs should not be connected to a constant current LED driver in parallel. ​Constant current LED drivers are used to power LEDs that have no internal current regulation. When you connect multiple LEDs to a constant current LED driver in parallel, you run …

It is very rare that agood quality  LED driver  fails because of a manufacturing fault. In most cases the failure is caused by a problem with the installation, or there are some environmental factors at play. We were recently contacted by a customer, who …

When using the MEAN WELL LCM-DA / DA2 LED drivers in a Master/Slave configuration, all the slave units must be set to 100% output level. If this is not done all the lights will flash at a slow rate until the master unit’s dimming level is turned up above …