OK, quick background. I am getting faint triggering on many of my LED strings when the are off. This is tied to other channels coming on. I think I need snubbers to eliminate this. I am using all V5 LE's. They have built-in snubbers. When I installed these LE's, I put them in 4 to a box and hard-wired them to outlets installed in the top and bottom of the box. This makes hook up and storage pretty easy as they are self contained and weather proof. Anyway, the hot wires all go from the terminals on the board to the appropriate side of an outlet plug. 8 outlets (16 receptacles) per LE. I attached an old picture that shows my setup and i think you can see what I am talking about. The neutrals are white and the hots are black.
Here is the rub. For the neutral's, I ran them all in series straight from the GFCI. They never go to the board...well except for one that feeds the left or power supply side of the board. But the neutrals for the outlets all come straight from the GFCI's mounted in the bottom of the enclosure (1 per LE). What this means is that I am not getting the use of the built-in resistor on the board for "snubbing" purposes. My questions is...how can I make use of them without rewiring my entire enclosure (64 channels). I am electrically challenged/nervous and my thinking is this:
If I keep the neutrals the same except the first one in the series gets wired to the LE board (hence making use of the built-in snubber) instead of the GFCI, all the current would be going through that one channel...at least on the neutral side. That may present a while other bag of issues that I have not considered yet, but at least that seems like it might be too much for that one channel as wouldn't all the current then go through that one terminal?
BTW, the current on the 4 controllers in this box are 2 have less that 4 amps when everything is on, and two have less than 3 amps when everything is on (YEAH LED's).
Is my thinking correct and/or is there any other way to "snub" these strings easily or make use of the ones already on the board? I thought about adding a resistor to the back of each outlet (I would have to do 64, but would be easier than rewiring).
Sorry for the long post, but what I thought was a good, clean setup may have hosed me functionally.
TIA,
-Keith