Things to consider When Choosing LED Strip Lights


In a previous article we focused on the main things to look out for when buying LED Strip Lights for the first time. Now we are going to take you through the next phase; installation. Installing your LED Strips can be anything from very simple to quite difficult, but ultimately it all depends on what end result you are trying to achieve with your lighting system. For example, introducing a 1 metre strip of LED lighting into your kitchen cabinet may be a lot more straight forward than using 20 metres of RGB LED Strip Lights to outfit a club and run this on DMX Control. Regardless of what you do there are a few universal things to look out for and this article will take you through some of them.LED Strip light


We will start with the LED Tape itself. This consists of a long piece of high impact, flexible circuit board with surface mounted devices, or SMDs, positioned along its length. There are a few different things to consider here including, LEDs per metre, LED chip size, strip light colour and length. Strip Lights are available in two LED per metre varieties, 30 LED per metre and 60 LED per metre. As suggested by the name the latter has twice as many LEDs and is a lot brighter than the former. They are designed to be used in a lighting context where they are forced to compete with background illumination. So for example if you want to use them in a daylight setting, such as a shop street display, or add them to a room that already has general illumination and still want them to be seen, you should opt for 60 LED per metre as their sharper light output makes them suitable for these purposes. Aside from this a 30 LED per metre strip will be able to handle most other lighting arrangements, such as club setups, or anywhere else they don't have to compete with background lighting.