Just bought an '80s house with a finished basement with 4 overhead neons. I;d like to replace them with 4 dimmable LED panels. I found some "Commercial Electric" 2' x 4' pairs (2 panels per box) at HD and bought two sets (a total of 4 panels).
First thing I learned is that I would need a 0v-10v dimmer/switch. I went with a Leviton DS710-01z, one of the recommended ones by the LED mfr.
So, I've had pretty good luck mounting the panels and I'm ready to start wiring.
The dimmer has 4 wires out and a ground…2 (black and white) 14AWG line voltage (120v) and 2 (gray and purple) 18AWG Low Voltage and the ground. If I'm going to run 4 connecting cables from the dimmer to the 4 panels, could I do 4 runs of 14/4 cable with ground? Or should I be running 4 runs of 14/2 for the line voltage and ground, then another 4 runs of low-voltage wire for the 0v-10v?
By the way, as I'm wiring all of this stuff parallel, might I be overloading the Leviton dimmer? (by using 4 panel). I couldn't find any indicators on the Leviton as to whether or not it had limitations?
So thanks in advance, I'll really look forward to your help here!
Best Answer
I would use 1 run to the fixture then daisy chain them just like any other install. The low voltage can run in the same cable because all the conductors are insulated for 600v so that would be code compliant. Make sure when you connect your 0-10 you connect them all the same. reversing 1 can damage that one and prevent the lights from going full power (a short takes mine down to ~10% light output) took a while to figure this out as the apprentice only mis wired the last 2 of 20. All the lights came on at a low level 1 fixture damaged 1 ok. The damaged one no longer was dimmable but works at full power so we put in an area we did not vary the lighting.