- Application of LED flexible light strip
The LED light strip is to assemble the LED lights on the strip-shaped PCB flexible circuit board, because the product is shaped like a strip, so its name is derived from this. LED light strips have a long service life, are energy-saving and environmentally friendly, and can be used indoors, outdoors or semi-outdoors.
LED light strips are widely used in hotels, shopping malls, home furnishing, automobiles, advertising, lighting, bars and other industries, and can be used as main lighting, indirect lighting, recessed lighting, contouring, decorative lighting and other purposes.
Because of its flexibility, LED light strips can be curled arbitrarily, and are easy to make shapes such as graphics and characters. Therefore, they are often used in sign lighting as luminous characters or modeling lighting sources. LED light strips are hidden on the ceiling, wall or ground to outline the outline of the space, which can better shape the light environment space. On the ceiling, it is designed to be streamlined, which can stretch the space infinitely; the light strip can balance the space illumination, expand and extend its sense of space; under the embellishment of the LED light strip, the original minimalist space form can be endowed with an attractive Soul-stirring layered beauty. The LED light strip itself emits light evenly, bringing a bright light environment to the space, which not only ensures a clear visual environment, but also reduces glare. At present, LED strips are widely used in various industries.Also read:Best LED Light Bars
- Installation knowledge of LED strips
2.1 Indoor installation of flexible light strips
When the LED light strip is used for interior decoration, it is very simple to install because it does not have to withstand wind and rain. Before installation, please clean up the sundries on the installation surface to ensure the surface is clean. There is a self-adhesive 3M double-sided adhesive on the back of each LED light strip. When installing, you can directly tear off the sticker on the surface of the 3M double-sided adhesive, and then fix the light strip on the place where it needs to be installed, and press it flat with your hands. As for some places that need corners or are too long, you can cut off the excess light strip at the scissors (the LED light strip is a circuit structure composed of 3 LEDs in series and parallel, and every 3 LEDs can be cut off individually. use.)
2.2 Outdoor installation of flexible light strips
In order to ensure the life and safety of the product, the selected product needs to adopt an outdoor protective light strip according to the environmental requirements. Before installation, first determine the protective performance of the product. Outdoor installation will be exposed to wind and rain. If 3M glue is used to fix it, the 3M glue will lose its viscosity over time and cause the LED strip to fall off. Therefore, outdoor installation often uses card slots to fix it, which needs to be cut and connected. In other places, the method is the same as the indoor installation, and waterproof glue is also required to strengthen the waterproof effect of the connection point.
2.3 Power connection method
The general voltage of the LED light strip is DC 12V, so a switching power supply is required for power supply. The size of the power supply is determined according to the power and connection length of the LED light strip. If you don’t want to use one power supply to control each LED light strip, you can buy a switching power supply with relatively high power as the total power supply, and then connect all the LED light strip input power supplies in parallel (if the wire size is not enough, you can extend it additionally), Unified power supply by the general switching power supply. The advantage of this is that it can be controlled centrally. The inconvenience is that the lighting effect and switch control of a single LED strip cannot be realized. The specific method can be measured by yourself.
2.4 Controller Connection Mode
LED marquee light strips and RGB colorful light strips need to use controllers to achieve changing effects, and the control distance of each controller is different. Generally speaking, the control distance of simple controllers is 10 to 15 meters, and the control distance of remote controllers The control distance is 15 to 20 meters, and the longest distance can be controlled to 30 meters. If the connection distance of the LED light strip is long, and the controller cannot control such a long light strip, then a power amplifier is required for branching.
2.5 Pay attention to the connection distance of the LED strip
Generally speaking, the longest connection distance of 3528 series LED strips is 20 meters, and the longest connection distance of 5050 series LED strips is 15 meters. If the connection distance is exceeded, the LED light strip will easily heat up, which will affect the service life of the LED light strip during use. Therefore, when installing, it must be installed according to the manufacturer's requirements, and the LED strip should not be overloaded.
- Small knowledge of LED strips
There is a "scissors" mark on each light strip, and it can only be cut when the mark is cut. If you cut it wrong or cut it off, it will not light up for one meter! It is best to carefully look at the position of the mark before cutting it at the place where there is no connection in the middle.
Each light strip must be equipped with a special plug (the plug has a transformer); the transparent plastic cover must be removed when connecting, and then covered after the test light is connected. Do not connect directly with a cover, it is easy to short circuit!
When the light strip is installed, it is generally placed in the light trough, and it can be straightened, or it can be fixed with a string or thin wire. If external or vertical installation is required, clips and tail plugs need to be purchased separately. The original clip is completely transparent. It is best to apply waterproof glass glue on the tail plug and plug after installation, so that the waterproof performance is better.
At present, LED light strips have been widely used, and can be seen everywhere on buildings, bridges, roads, gardens, courtyards, floors, ceilings, furniture, cars, ponds, underwater, advertisements, signs, signs, and LED light strips are very environmentally friendly , favored by users and designers. Learn more product knowledge to ensure safe use.
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