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Re:Lighting a room using 900+ RGB LEDs by miander on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @06:47PM (#10307972)
A better power-supply system would be to use a step-down DC-DC converter on each strip or each group of strips to step down from a higher voltage (say, 24V). These converters can be had for ~$1 apiece on eBay. This would reduce the current requirements down to ~20A, which is within the realm of what you can buy inexpensively (also on eBay).
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Re:Lighting a room using 900+ RGB LEDs by PhantomGremlin on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @08:38PM (#10308456)
These converters can be had for ~$1 apiece on eBay.

Yeah, that's exactly the type of hardware I want hanging on my wall. Because eBay is the world's preeminent source of UL certified electrical devices. /sarcasm

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