LED Strips - What you should know

Replacing LED Strip in a large room is not as fast or easy as replacing a Lightbulb, this is why it is VITAL to choose the correct LED Strip from the beginning.  

The problem with most LED Strip

Most of the LED Strips currently being sold around the world use Resistors to regulate the voltage to the LEDs, this method is cheap and simple but will cause the LEDs to fail fairly quickly. 

LEDs have a specific forward voltage and operating current, Resistors alone are not enough to ensure that those parameters are met. Most LED Strips only have resistors on the circuit board, and as a result the LEDs can quickly begin to dim and eventually fail.  This will happen with single colour strip, and with colour changeable (RGB) Strip the LEDs can lose colours.  The useful lifetime (optimum brightness) of a good quality Constant Voltage (Standard) LED Strip should be around 20,000-30,000 hours (2-3 Years), some of the better strips can last longer.

For use in homes and commercial buildings it is false economy to pay for an LED Strip to be installed that will quickly begin to decay.

Proof of what will happen to poor quality Strip:

The pictures below are of a multi multi million pound building.  Unfortunately it seems a rather low quality LED Strip has been used.

This will not happen with our Constant Current LED Strip

Another strip showing the early signs of LED fatigue in a different part of the same building.

Another example of Warm White LED Strips.  The LEDs have faded in patches.

If you want the high quality strips that will last for many years then the only option is our Litewave ® Pro LED Strip

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