Self adhesive black LED strip lights. White

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LED strip lights are available in various shades of whites or colors. Generally, white light is the most useful and popular option for indoor lighting applications.

Working in a tight space? Dealing with curved walls or an irregular layout? If you have bends to navigate or uneven surfaces to accommodate, we offer bendable, corner and mini LED profiles. If you want to use LED strip lights to cover a larger area, you can connect more than one strip light. This will provide you with the opportunity to create a custom lighting effect that looks spectacular in larger rooms. One of the most popular domestic environments for installing strips is in your kitchen. You can easily use 12V LED strip lights to illuminate those awkward corners of your kitchen, living and working space. You can use them anywhere you like, from shelves through under cabinet lighting to countertops and kitchen islands. With LED strip lighting, your kitchen will be more functional and sophisticated.Always remember that it’s easy to connect more than one strip light, so you can use LED lighting to illuminate an area of any size. Through connecting clips or a soldering iron, you can join two or more LED strip lights to create a bespoke lighting layout that will complement any room.

Colour temperature is used to describe how warm or cool a light appears and is measured in degrees-Kelvin. Lower temperatures, around 2700k are described as a “warm white” and will give off a yellowish-red LED light. Higher colour temperatures will be around 4000K, a “neutral white” and will look slightly more blueish. LED strip lights (often referred to as LED Tape lights) are often the buyer’s preferred choice due to their versatility regarding lighting plans. These are fantastic options if you are looking to light up spaces such as your home, office or even commercial property. They are a simple yet resourceful way of manifesting mood lighting in a room, these flexible LED strip lights can also be moulded to fit a variety of spaces - providing a glow of strip lights. You may have correctly read elsewhere that LEDs need effective thermal management for reliable operation. Higher quality LED strip light products actually underdrive the LEDs, and are designed to last tens of thousands of hours without any heatsinking. During operation, the LED strip can get warm to the touch, but the temperature rise is far below the thermal limits of the LEDs and circuitboard components. (Our products typically exhibit temperature rises of 55 F or 30 C over ambient temperatures, without any heatsinking). LED strip lights are available in a range of sizes, with lengths ranging from 1m to 10m. Although, if you want to cut LED strip lights to size, feel free. Make sure that your power supply has enough power capacity to power the LED strips (detailed steps here). Every DC power supply will list its maximum rated current (in Amps) or power (in Watts). Determine the total power draw of the LED strip using the following formula:Our LED Tape is available in a wide range of colours. While there is a case for arguing that certain colour work better in certain situations and for certain applications, ultimately the colour you choose will be a matter of taste. Fortunately there are plenty of options to choose from and, hopefully, something for everyone. If you are undecided on one colour you might want to try our RGB colour changing tape. These are supplied with a controller and allow you to change the colour of your tape at the touch of a button. LED Strip Lights are the easy-to-use efficient way to get creative with your at-home lighting solutions. From providing a subtle glow to the underside of worktops and wall mounted units, to the more practical application of wardrobe and cabinet lighting, ‘plug and play’ LED strip lighting can help you to add a new and on-trend dimension to your home fixtures. LED strip brightness is typically described in lumens per foot (or meter). A good quality LED strip should provide at least 450 lumens per foot (1500 lumens per meter), which provides approximately the same amount of light output per foot as a traditional T8 fluorescent lamp. (E.g. 4-ft T8 fluorescent = 4-ft of LED strip = 1800 lumens). The TP-Link Tapo Smart Lights can be scheduled and synced with other TP-Link devices and controlled via Alexa, Google Home or Apple HomeKit without the need for an additional hub. LED Quantity & Quality-The efficiency, quality and stability of light output is directly determined by the LED emitters. Look for LED strip lights that place stringent quality controls and specifications on the LED emitters, and watch out for LED strips that claim a high power despite a low LED count, as this can indicate overdriving the LED emitters, leading to premature failure.

The aluminum channels may help dissipate the heat from the LED strips, but for the most part they are not necessary for thermal management and are primarily for mounting and diffusion purposes. Most LED strips are configured to operate at 12V or 24V DC. When running off of a standard mains supply power source (e.g. household wall outlet) at 120/240V AC, the power needs to be converted to the appropriate low voltage DC signal. This is most frequently and simply accomplished using a DC power supply.Color rendering is a measure of how accurate colors appear under the light source. Under a low CRI LED strip, colors might appear distorted, washed out, or indistinguishable. High CRI LED products offer light that allows objects to appear the way they would under an ideal light source such as a halogen lamp, or natural daylight. Also look for a light source's R9 value, which provides further information about how red colors are rendered. Regardless of your imagination and lighting plan - you can find suitable LED strips to bring it to life. The LEDs themselves are super bright and punchy and once connected to the app can be set to your choice of 16 million different colours. Unlike some LED Strip lights, the Tapo light lets you display more than one colour at a time. There are a number of themes already built-in, or you can use the colour painting option to set up your own custom patterns. It even offers effects, including the ability to sync to music. For more neutral settings you can also precisely dial in the colour temperature of the white light to match it to the ambient lighting in the room.