ELDO LED drivers DALI and Profilux?

**dipan** · 31.01.2011, 15:28

I have been very patient (or lazy!) with my LED build. I do have all the LEDs for maybe almost a year now, as well as over 40 Meanwell drivers. I am selling off the drivers as I do not believe that these will work well given their relative inefficiency. This would not be a problem if I just wanted to run 8 drivers, but over 40! Too much current because of the poor power factor correction.

Anyway, I've been looking at the ELDO site and really liked their drivers, very flexible. Especially the PowerDrive AC mains driver. It has four outputs each programmable for up to 1050mA and up to 60 volts. The only limiting factor is total power must be less than 100 watts. And it is a DALI driver which would make dimming functionality much simpler, I think. Am I correct in assuming this will work with a P3ex with a DALI card? I wanted to get some official word from here before ordering because they are fairly expensive and I really don't want to waste the money and effort like I did with the Meanwells.

Here is a link to the PowerDrive's data sheet:

http://www.eldoled.com/dsheets/Datas...eries_V3_3.pdf

**hempi23** · 31.01.2011, 20:57

Yes, the specs and versitality of this ballast style drive sound nice. I have ordered one of these last year. It turned out that they had some problems with manufactoring over in China. I am still waiting to receive the driver to this point, but it was promisied to me that they will be available around now. Will follow up with them and keep you posted.

Cheers,
Robert

**dipan** · 02.02.2011, 19:11

Originally Posted by hempi23

Yes, the specs and versitality of this ballast style drive sound nice. I have ordered one of these last year. It turned out that they had some problems with manufactoring over in China. I am still waiting to receive the driver to this point, but it was promisied to me that they will be available around now. Will follow up with them and keep you posted.

Thanks Robert. I look forward to your followup.

Given that it has DALI support, it should work, right? I'm just looking for some official GHL help before I spend $2K on drivers. I understand that there cannot be a guarantee, but if it doesn't work, is there a way that GHL can try to make it work? I've seen at least one other DALI related post where the user sent a ballast in because they were not working and a subsequent DALI firmware upgrade to the expansion card and I think a new card made the ballast work.

**hempi23** · 02.02.2011, 20:11

The company itself is member of AG-DALI: http://www.dali-ag.org/index.php?n=am
So there is a good chance that they have implemented the interface and protocol correctly.

**tekfreak** · 02.02.2011, 20:29

I have also been looking forward to order the eldoLED POWERdrive AC, and drive it through its 0-10 volts interface directly connected to the Profilux'es native 0-10 volt interface - not dependent on an extra DALI card and possible DALI protocol issues.