External LED Lighting

[Mr-H]

I have recently bought 3 sets of these (a Red one, a white one and a blue set) from eBay, 'cos 'er indoors want to have coloured lighting around the gazebo. All is fine, and the lights are working well. However, they have an individual controller which controls the light pattern - flash, fade, sequential, steady on etc. - a total number of 8 patterns. Now, my missus has decided that she only wants the lights 'steady on', i.e. no flash, no fade etc. etc. Question is, I assume this can only be achieved by amending the wiring. Surely the controller is only a type of involved switch, and by removing the controller I can achieve what I want to do? There are basically 4 sets of lights in each string, but 5 wires going into the controller. Do I need to identify these wires, connecting 4 to the live side and 1 to the neutral side if the plug? Is this all cr*p and is there nothing I can do to have the lights steady on only?

[wildwood]

Why not simply leave the controllers on the 'steady on' option?

[Mr-H]

Because when turned on they revert to the number 1 position which is the full sequential choice. It does the lot for about 4 minutes before starting all over again!

[bazwillrun]

Is this controller seperate to the power unit ?


if these are stepped down from AC mains to DC and then from the DC into the controller, then theres a chance you could just take the controller out of the circuit and just connect the DC output wires directly to wires that attached to the lights.

maybe some pics of the setup might help

[gingejbee]

Would it be easier to move to Blackpool?