{"id":5447,"date":"2020-06-21T04:03:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T08:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=5447"},"modified":"2020-06-21T04:03:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T08:03:39","slug":"backyard-fence-led-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=5447","title":{"rendered":"Backyard fence LED lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By setting the voltage at which the light come on, you are able to set the level of darkness, not a specific time (e.g. 7:30PM).\u00a0 As the sun goes down, the voltage from the panel will drop; once below the setpoint, the controller thinks &#8220;dark enough for lights to come on&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>They lights will stay on until the &#8220;on duration&#8221; (now 3hrs)\u00a0 OR\u00a0 the battery voltage drops below the &#8220;PV OFF&#8221; setting (now 10.5???)<\/p>\n<p>With these settings, 2020-06-20 (Saturday):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>lights on at 9:16pm<\/li>\n<li>lights off at 11:59pm (coincident with midnight??)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Probably battery voltage dropped below PV OFF setpoint, since 3 hours would be 24:16 (or 00:16)<\/p>\n<p>Remeber: this device has no time of day clock; it relies solely on panel and battery voltags.<\/p>\n<p>~2h45m is pretty close to the rated output; ??? 5.2Ah ???\/ 2.4A (no dimmer yet!!) = 2.2 hrs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By setting the voltage at which the light come on, you are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[196,126],"class_list":["post-5447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-home-automation","tag-my-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}