Heartwarming Wiring Multiple Lights In Series

Wiring lights in series results in the supply or source voltage being divided up among all the connected lights with the total voltage across the entire circuit being equal to the supply voltage.

Wiring multiple lights in series. The requirements of a lighting application often dictate what type of circuit can be used but if given the choice the most efficient way to run high power leds is using a series circuit with a constant current led driver. The other way to wire multiple lights to one switch is to connect all of them directly to the switch in a home run configuration. This means each led in the circuit will be the same brightness and will not allow a single led to hog more current than another.

The switch and fuse line live must be connected by wire. Running a series circuit helps to provide the same amount of current to each led. Varying degree of lumen output from the connected lights all below the intended rating of the fixture and the fact that if one light burns out the entire circuit quits working are among the most obvious reasons why.

Connect the light fixtures by wiring their black wires to the black cable. Much more common than series circuits are those wired in parallel including most household branch circuits powering light fixtures outlets and appliances. More current is required when additional light bulbs are added to the parallel circuit.

You can do this light switch wiring in one of two ways. Series wiring is all or none type wiring mean all the appliances will work at once or all of them will disconnect if fault occurs at any one of the connected device in series circuit. Parallel lighting wiring circuits use more size cables and wires.

High supply voltage are needed if we need to add more load light bulbs electric heaters air conditioner etc in the series circuit. The second option allows you to easily disconnect fixtures you no longer want to use but it becomes cumbersome when more than two fixtures are involved. For many reasons in practice this type of series connection is not done.

For example if five 220v lamps are to be connected in series than supply voltage would have to be. The most common is to daisy chain the light fixtures by connecting them to each other and hooking the first one up to the switch. 5 x 220v 1 1kv.