Anybody familiar with retrofitting a black box LED to dimmable?

[porpoiseaquatics]

I'm pretty sure this can be done but wanted to hear if anybody else has attempted this and how they went about doing it. I have a 2 channel black box that I'd really like to make dimmable.

I believe that if the ballast has a variable input then all I have to do is put a potentiometer on the line in. Does that sound correct?

 

[rdnelson]

Do you want 0-10v dimming so it can be controlled by an apex? If so, shoot a picture of the driver (led don't use ballast) and send it to me. I may have a driver you can have.

 

[jbdreefs]

I am just guessing, but I bet that fixture doesn't have a variable driver.

If it is a variable driver, it would have 5 connections:: two for voltage in, two for voltage out, and another for the signal. I suppose, it could have two more for the fan.

 

[sewer urchin]

I did it the easy way, yeah my easy way tends to be complicated and involves many, many steps ;-)

When I thought one of the old drivers went bad. I swapped out the old with a new dimmable one. Cussed a bit when it didn't fix the problem, as it turned out I had a LED that was bad that was missed when checked the first time. Now it's all sitting in the basement waiting for me to finish swapping out LEDs.

 

[porpoiseaquatics]

rdnelson99;1061328 wrote: Do you want 0-10v dimming so it can be controlled by an apex? If so, shoot a picture of the driver (led don't use ballast) and send it to me. I may have a driver you can have.

I'll crack it open and let you know. Yeah, I know it uses a "driver" and not a "ballast"....just wasn't thinking of the right words when I wrote the OP.