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Originally Posted by nemosworld
you do not want to have too many drivers on one circuit starting up at the same time, not sure how much load they can take, but from what i have read forward voltage is an issue when using too many drivers, you can overload the wires. the options are to run the leds in parallel or have them on timers, so not all of them turn on at the same time.
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I believe the reason you don't want more than 4ish drivers on a circut is that when they first turn on they draw somthing like 60-70 amps each for a split second to charge up the capacitors in the driver. if you have a lot of them on the same breaker it will trip every time they start up. It doesn't have anything to do with the forward voltage of the leds.
runnning parralel strings on bigger drivers or having them turn on at different times as nemo suggests is the typical work around. Course you could just put in a dedicated breaker for you lighting too........