Hi, I recently accquired some LED fixtures by OptiLED. these seem to be designed for architectural use. I have ten strips of RGB leds 20 perstrip, 12"long, and for "spots" with 1 each R,G,B 1 watt leds. These are pretty cool and I got a good price on them, but the main gripe I have now is the odd connectors they use. the power comes in on a sure-seal connector which is IP65 rated, as are the fixtures. the connector is however, not the easiest to mate and get the pins aligned. I would not care if using themas intended, but I am using them at our portable church and as such must set them up and tear them down each week, I fear either : breaking pins, wearing them out, or just plain getting really annoyed at how not easy they are to mate. I modified one to tak a standard NEMA 5-15 plug, but would like to find a more easily mated connector to replace the sure seals. I thought Powerconn, but the have no cable mount receptacles (each strip has power in and out on a 6-8" flying lead for daisy chaining) would be cool to maintain the IP65 rating also, in case I do use them outdoors at some time. I do not want to use nema5-15's as they are a bit large compared to the fixture.
Any recomendations? If I don't come up with something suitable, I will just mount the strips to a couple boards and rewire the first with a nema 5-15, and leave them hooked up all the time. I'd like to retain the flexibility of putting a strip anywhere i need it though. looked into ordering the sureseals to make adaptors, not too bad for the price, except the crimper is a bit steep, cheapest I found was over $200 on ebay. and like I said, they are a bit of a pain to mate.
Thanks
Any recomendations? If I don't come up with something suitable, I will just mount the strips to a couple boards and rewire the first with a nema 5-15, and leave them hooked up all the time. I'd like to retain the flexibility of putting a strip anywhere i need it though. looked into ordering the sureseals to make adaptors, not too bad for the price, except the crimper is a bit steep, cheapest I found was over $200 on ebay. and like I said, they are a bit of a pain to mate.
Thanks