1. Introduction: What is a LED strip?
LED strips are low voltage (5V, 12V, 24V) lighting devices, acclimated about in architectural lighting, assurance letter lighting, buried lighting, ambit lighting and abounding added applications as a backup for earlier and beneath able technologies such as incandescent, fluorescent, halogen or neon lighting and they are about at atomic alert as ablaze as added adornment options such as braiding lighting fixtures.
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They are accessible in distinct blush and RGB versions, the capital manufacturers can action White, Warm White and Red, Green, Blue and Yellow address blush strips, but some of the top manufacturers additionally action altered versions of White or Warm White adjusting the ablaze achievement and blush temperature.
2. LED band Types
LED band ablaze is one of the fastest growing areas of the ablaze abounding diode market. There are several subcategories aural this category:
a. adamant Strips: with or after waterproof protection, with PCB lath finishing, encased in artificial or with aluminum behind (also accepted as LED bars) and application aerial ability SMD or earlier LED technologies such as army diodes.
b. adjustable strip: with or after waterproof protection, with or after adhering band on the aback and application either SMD ascent technology (several options depending on power) or earlier ascent technologies (which are beneath and beneath common).
The better allotment of the class is taken by the strips LED adjustable and that is why we will focus on them primarily (since SMD is the capital technology and by far the best able we will focus on that too).
3. adjustable band LED
Flexible Strips abide about of low contour apparent army diodes (SMD), which are the aforementioned blazon of chips acclimated in latest beaming LED tube T8 but in the case of the strips they are absorbed to a adjustable aqueduct strip. ability is again activated to one end of the band and the diodes afford a bland affiliated light.
Since the ascent abject is flexible, they can be installed in assorted areas and they action one added advantage vs adamant strips (LED bars), they can be cut to custom size, and reattached or commutual if needed, either by simple soldering at apparent soldering spots or by the use of Fast connectors, which are offered by the capital manufacturers. Normally adjustable band LED are bogus in reels, of about 3 to 5 meters, and based on the blazon of dent and architecture of the reel connections, they can be cut every 2 to 6pcs of chips.
The possibilities of architecture for the strips are limitless, although baby companies focus on aloof a few of them. capital suppliers can action altered PCBs finishing (transparent - Brass circuits or White, and alike Black - Originally the PCBs captivation the diodes were chestnut colored. New bearing LED strips accept white coated PCBs, which accord a added compatible ablaze distribution.), additionally altered widths, from 5mm for thinnest strips which are mostly focused on specific lighting functions, such as ancillary appearance lighting, to 8mm and 12mm, which are by far the best common, and added strips for added circuitous strips, such as the able strips which ambit amid 15 to 17mm.
Obviously the amplitude of the band depends additionally on its case and therefore, on its waterproof rating. The thinnest versions are IP20 (some top suppliers additionally action IP64 which is a actual acceptable and recommended another to IP20) and the widest are IP68, which abide of a complete silicon case surrounding the strip. We will assay in added detail the altered capital appearance of the adjustable band LED.
All About LED Strips 1, 2 and 3 - Introduction, Types and Flexible Version