This will reinforce the adhesive tape that's on the back of the strip and give you a long-lasting droop-free installation the third common issue is going to require a little bit of a reality check on your part ask yourself how often you're really going to want your led strip to be a color other than white the most common type of led strips are RGB LED strip meaning they have three different LEDs in the red green and blue if you want to make pink you'd turn on the red channel and the blue channel if you want to make yellow you'd turn on red and green and to make white you turn on red green and blue but it doesn't really look white at least not the pure white that.

We're used to and it ends up looking kind of purple and gross to avoid this you can either buy all-white strips or RGB strips that have a dedicated white channel but be aware that not all RGB strips are made equal and some strips have four colors on a single chip while others have a dedicated white chip and then a separate RGB chip for installations where the LEDs are going to be visible you should absolutely choose the four in one chip because otherwise you'll never be able to mix the white channel with the color channels but in indirect lighting situations you should use the separate white chip which will be brighter and have better heat dissipation for areas where color isn't needed you should opt for all-white strips or if you want to get really fancy tunable white strips can be used that allow for wide customization of the white channel color temperature.

The fourth issue has to do with the length of your led strips and the brightness that you want to achieve if you're planning on a short run and you're going to keep the brightness relatively low you can get away with almost any voltage but for long runs and higher brightness you're going to want to choose a strip that uses a higher voltage depending on your LED light strips type you're generally going to see voltages between and higher voltages will result in more accurate colors throughout the strip and fewer differences in brightness the further you get away from the power supply because you generally don't find led strips and power supplies sold together you'll need to make sure you get the right power supply for your strip or strips that you want to use thankfully.