It can be welded to a flexible conductive backing, resulting in an LED light strip. LED strips are trendy and easily seen everywhere in professional TV and magazine decoration. They have the same benefits as LEDs, consume less, have better lighting, sometimes longer than LEDs, have a lifespan of 30 to 50,000 hours, and are flexible enough to allow multiple uses. The only limitation is the imagination. Where and how are LED strips used?
LED strips are one of the most common products on the market, whether for lighting under kitchen cabinets or creating mood lighting and many more possibilities.
When comparing LED strips, they all have differences, and specific parameters can help us determine which are the most suitable for each use. The LED system attached to the headboard provides more subdued and cosy lighting than the bedside lamp or a ceiling light. Placed on the floor and the ceiling, the LED ribbon creates a perspective in this long corridor, which is altogether very classic. If you have a sizeable simple mirror in a dressing room or entrance, highlight it by illuminating it with a large LED strip.
LED strips can be used anywhere, indoors and outdoors (if they are waterproof, this applies to all stripes). This is a real revolution in lighting, both indirect lighting decoration rather than direct lighting.
• Lighting worktops, the tape placed under wall units, and the kitchen/bar.
• Mood lighting is arranged under furniture such as the bed, sideboard, kitchen, or bathroom.
• Main lighting of some large rooms with a sufficient number of tapes.
• Ceiling lighting, the light will flood your room by reflection on a white ceiling.
• Indirect ambient lighting from the top of wall units, directed towards the ceiling
• Indirect ambient lighting behind a low unit or a sofa.
• Enhancement of our shop windows with RGB LED strips.
• Office lighting, the ribbon being fixed under a shelf or tablet.
• Mood lighting behind a television. (indirect light in backlighting)
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What criteria do you choose for your LED strip?
You first need to know where and why your LED strip will be used. This will determine whether you need a high light intensity (for direct or indirect lighting) or a more moderate intensity for decoration. For example. You will also determine whether your tape should be waterproof or not, depending on where you will install it.
Finally, it is important to determine immediately if you need colour or not. Your choice will thus be made towards monochrome ribbons.
• Once the location and the need have been determined, all you have to do is choose your ribbon according to these criteria:
• To make the right choice, you will need to gather the information available on the item sheets of the ribbons you are looking for.
• Some retailers voluntarily ignore announcements about this important point but still indicate the brightness of future bars.
• Would not you buy a light bulb without knowing the brightness? The same goes for LED strips.
The valve type is used.
It is essential to know that depending on the size of the SMD LED used, two strips of 60 LEDs per meter may not have the same brightness. The performance of these different lamps is not the same, so you may need to increase or decrease the number of LEDs to get similar results. But in general, for the average user who does not necessarily know the properties and benefits of each LED lamp, priority should be given to the lumen value and the only helpful brightness. Of course!
Light colour
Monochrome (monochrome). Currently available in LED stores on White worm 3100 Kelvin and White Dolour 6400 Kelvin. RGB (Multicolour). However, you will need a console to control the various colours and functions on the tape. (See controller selection below).
Roof
Waterproof LED strips are often used to protect the light-emitting surface of LED lamps from dust that can cause the light-emitting surface of the LED to mist up in a humid environment or over time. Only the look has changed. The electronic devices are almost the same.
However, you should know that only duct tape is waterproof. Connections and power supplies (and controls, if any) must be protected from water mist and moisture. Also, keep in mind that if the tape is brittle (often customized every 10 cm), cutting the tape will also cut into the silicone protection, resulting in loss of water resistance. Then, if necessary, add silicone to make the tape waterproof again, making it convenient for everyone to adapt the tape to their application.
