Longer jumpers are available in 3, 6, and 10 foot lengths. The longer jumpers are for larger gaps in your application where you might have to cross to your next length of lights. This is helpful in areas where you need to go around a tight corner, as there are 6-inch jumpers for this case. If you need a gap in your strips, there are jumpers available to go from strip to strip. With these strips the attached power cord allows you to just plug and play. Usually you will have to find a power supply sufficient enough for your length of strip, then worry about how you are going to connect it to the power source. The plug in style make these lights super easy to set up. At the end of the post there will be some real life applications of how the strips have been used in some great outdoor settings to add nice linear landscape lighting. The heavy duty design and PVC covering make for water resistant led lights that are fantastic for outdoor use. The housing is covered by a PVC lens which also blocks UV rays. The LEDs are held in a 9/16” (W) by 1/4” (H) flexible rubber housing. This AC 5050 LED Strip still qualifies as a flex strip but is much more heavy duty than the standard flex strips with adhesive backing. Only thing to watch for is to make sure that no minimum loads apply for the dimmer and if so, make sure you have enough wattage for the dimmer to control smoothly. Obviously you will need to hook the dimmer to the outlet the strip is plugged into but that is the only thing needed to dim the LED strips. That’s right, no special dimmer needed for these strips, just use a common household dimmer to dim them on the AC side of the supply.
You probably will not need all that light all the time, so you can dim these strips using most standard incandescent dimmers. Along with Cool (5000K) and Warm (2700K) White colors, the strip is offered in Red, Blue and Green! RGB Plug & Play Strips are now available as well! With the high output it is a good thing these are dimmable led strip lights.
The 5050 LEDs really do the job as the strip outputs around 180 Lumens/foot for Cool White and 145 Lumens/foot in Warm White! That makes for our brightest strip light that can be used for accent lighting but also any task lighting needing a linear fixture. The LEDs are wired in parallel within the strip so when one LED goes out, the whole string will not cut out. The 120 degree throw from the LEDs helps with this as well as it really spreads the light and doesn’t come off looking spotty. Higher LED density improves overall light quality so this makes for a great strip for both task and accent lighting. Holding 20 LEDs per foot this makes for our highest density LED flex strip. The strip houses 5050 SMD LEDs, the same size as the standard and high density 12V LED strips. That is pretty much the same as the standard density flex strip that only outputs half the Lumens compared to this LED strip. These 120V LED light strips are extremely efficient running at just 2.3 Watts/foot. Everything is included in this strip, all you need is a well-placed outlet near your installation. This already makes them more simple than low-voltage strips as you do not have to buy a power supply along with your strips. They actually come with a power cord attached that has a small unit built into the cord that switches the power over to DC power for the LEDs.
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Luckily there is an AC powered LED strip that boasts a much heavier duty design that I would have no problem putting in any elements, plus it can run in long lengths all the way up to 150 feet! AC LED Strip LightsĪs the name says, these LED strips run off of straight line voltage, 120VAC. Standard density strips can connect up to 32 feet long but that is still too short for applications like crown and cove lighting, outdoor deck lighting, or any application requiring a long string of lights. These low voltage, 12V strips are used a lot in under cabinet lighting, back-lighting and shelf lighting…a big drawback is that they do not come in long lengths, the longest available single run option being only 16.4 feet (5m). LED flex strips have become the standard for adding indirect, accent lighting around your home. With the constant improvement in LED strip lighting, linear lighting applications continue to increase in popularity.
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