LED light strips are favoured for their versatility and flexibility – particularly since they can be cut to fit different areas of your home. Whether you want to add extra illumination to your kitchen work surfaces or a backlight for your TV, LED strips can be trimmed to fit your needs and space.
Providing that you cut along the marked cut lines only, LED strips — including certain Hue lightstrips — will work after cutting. Many people experience issues with their light strips if they cut outside of these lines. The cut lines are also the safest place to cut LED strips, as the circuits here are closed.
The only place on an LED strip light where it is safe to cut without breaking it is where the copper marking is located. These copper dots are the ending and beginnings of the circuits which power the LEDs on the strip. It is safe to cut these without breaking the entire LED strip if cut cleanly and accurately.
A: If the LED light strip you purchased can be cut, the remaining part that you have cut off cannot be used anymore. If you want to reconnect them after cutting, you must use an additional 4 pin connector to reconnect.
Your strips can be connected together, or reconnected if you've decided to cut them, in a variety of ways. Just like with cutting the LED strip lights, make sure they're unplugged and powered off before attempting to connect or reconnect strips.
The operating life of a LED is unaffected by turning it on and off. While lifetime is reduced for fluorescent lamps the more often they are switched on and off, there is no negative effect on LED lifetime.
The first option is to daisy chain the strips together. To do this, simply solder one wire to the positive terminal of the first strip and the other wire to the negative terminal of the second strip.
LEDs consume far less electricity than incandescent bulbs, and decorative LED light strings such as Christmas tree lights are no different.
LED strip lights are designed to be easy to cut apart with a pair of scissors. Each LED has a pair of copper dots at the end. As long as you cut between the dots, all of the LEDs will work.
The lights are designed so each bulb receives all 120 volts and each bulb has a direct route to power, meaning they can be cut to any length without overpowering and burning out bulbs. With the lights unplugged cut wires with wire cutters between the bulbs and cap each end with wire connectors.
To avoid voltage drop on longer strips, it is possible to wire a strip from both ends. IMPORTANT: ONLY POWER LED STRIP FROM BOTH ENDS ON THE SAME POWER SUPPLY.
You cannot cut just anywhere on your LED strip. Instead, you must follow the guides located on the strips that will tell you where you can cut them. The LED strips should have copper dots or ovals, typically located every three LEDs. These markers indicate cut points where you can make a cut in the strip.
A great benefit to LED bulbs is you can repair almost everything. Premature burnouts can be caused by poor component quality, LED overheating, and voltage jumps. The good news is that you don't have to have a lot of experience to handle the repair and the cost is significantly less than the price of a new bulb.
Yes! You can cut any of our battery-powered, USB, or solar-powered fairy lights to whatever length you desire.
Each CFL or LED bulb typically gives the same amount of light as a 60-watt incandescent bulb while drawing 10 watts or less, which is equivalent to a current draw of 1/12 amp. Thus a 15-amp circuit can safely control 180 or more fixtures that use CFL or LED bulbs.
Most residential circuits can carry 15 or 20 amps, which means you would need to plug at least 90 strands of LED lights into a single circuit before you reach the tripping point. However, it is still good to be aware of how the electrical load you're putting on your outlets.
The incandescent string lights can only have 5 sets connected end-to-end, which mean you would need to use two plug outlets. The LED lights can have up to 43 connected end-to-end while using only one plug outlet.
Despite myths you may have heard, turning your lights on and off doesn't use more electricity than leaving your lights on. Turning off the lights when you aren't in a room is one of the easiest ways to save energy.
If you're an Australian resident, the cost of leaving each light on while sleeping is given below. Incandescent light bulbs will cost $0.068. If it stays on every night, it will cost $2.028 in 30 days.
Since plug and play LEDs are compatible with ballasts, you can simply remove a fluorescent bulb and replace it with an LED. Since no additional modification or wiring is required, it's as easy as replacing incandescent bulbs with LED bulbs in your home.
Each LED strip segment must be connected to a DC power supply, or another LED strip segment that is connected to a DC power supply (daisy chain). The connection method will depend on the type of wires or plugs provided with the LED strip, as well as whether or not the DC power supply includes a plug.
LED lights only work when you touch them
Surprisingly, many LED lights and strips do not require a great deal of voltage. This means that, theoretically, the energy emitted from your body could actually be enough to turn on your LED light!