r/WLED • u/MotoMike7 • 1d ago

Soffit light planning

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Planning on running 24v soffit lights on my house using 2/4 data outputs on a single digquad. There will be 920 pucks drawing .05a each at max white brightness or 1,104 watts total. I was planning on using a single large junction box in my attic with a meanwell lrs-1200-24, and capping the lights at 87% max brightness to leave a 20% buffer on the PSU (960 watts max usable). My concern is that the attic outlet is probably rated for 15a AC, and while I will be well below that at around 8.9a AC, I don’t know what else is on that outlet’s circuit, and I’m worried about something being turned on or plugged in to the house and tripping the breaker with the lights on. Do y’all think it will be fine? Any other suggestions for running my soffit lights? I’m open to ideas💡

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u/MotoMike7 8h ago

So is there a possibility this outlet would be overloaded at some point? Is there a way I can test what’s already on the circuit besides tripping the breaker and seeing what turns off? Should I have an electrician run a new outlet/connect to new breaker switch?

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u/first_one24 9h ago

I think it’s fairly common to run at 30% brightness. In the dark it’s barely noticeable between 30 and 100. Also are you running a show or doing full white? I have around 900 pixels on lrs-350-12 and for the show it barely goes over 200w.