Installed in one visit
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Wire it
Lid off: supply cable through one gland into the input terminal, strip cable through the other into the output terminal. It runs from any 12 V or 24 V DC supply and drives the strip at that same voltage.
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Set it up from a phone
On first power-up kaamos opens its own Wi-Fi network. Join it and the setup page appears by itself, the way hotel Wi-Fi does. Your phone fills in the location; you set the time and the two brightness levels.
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Close it and leave it
Save, close the lid and mount it on the wall. The Wi-Fi switches off and kaamos runs on its own from then on. To change a setting later, open the lid and press the setup button.
What's inside
Keeps time on its own
A temperature-compensated clock with a coin-cell backup keeps the time through power cuts. It drifts about two and a half minutes a year.
Gentle changes
At sunrise and sunset the strip fades between your two levels over five minutes, with flicker-free hardware dimming.
Hard to break
A supply wired backwards, a voltage surge on the cable or a short on the strip side won't damage it. After a short it switches the output off and retries safely.
Made for outside walls
Gasket-sealed housing, cable glands for the wiring, stainless steel screws and a breathable vent that stops condensation building up.
Strips up to 5 A
That is about 60 W of strip on a 12 V supply or 120 W on 24 V, continuously.
Nothing to sign up for
No cloud service, no app to install, and nothing that stops working when a server is switched off.
Specifications
- Supply
- 12 V or 24 V DC, ±10 % (10.8 to 26.4 V)
- LED output
- Up to 5 A continuous, same voltage as the supply; PWM dimming
- Brightness
- Separate daytime and night levels, 0 to 100 %; 5 minute fade between them
- Protection
- Reverse polarity, input surge, output short circuit
- Timekeeping
- Battery-backed real-time clock (CR2032), about 2.6 min drift per year
- Setup
- The unit's own Wi-Fi network and a setup page in any phone browser
- Housing
- About 109 × 115 × 30 mm, light grey, wall mounted, gasket sealed
- Cable entry
- Two M12 cable glands, for cables 3 to 6.5 mm across
- Ingress rating
- Designed for outdoor walls; rating to be confirmed in testing
Prototypes in testing
Interested in kaamos?
The first boards are being tested now. Tell us where you'd use it and how many you need, and we'll let you know when it's available.