What You Must Know About LED Strips

At the moment, manufacturers can boast a huge variety of LED strips. To simplify their installation on the coated tape are performed based adhesive. LED strips are used for illumination of ceilings and for all sorts of niches.

Incidentally, the white color in the spectrum no proper, so the corresponding cold single color luminescence is obtained by using a blue LED coated with phosphor layer and for the warm tone is used dye. LED strips are divided by type of LEDs used in the tapes, their density (to be a number of LEDs per m ribbons), power (measured in watts), the degree of protection against moisture and the emission color.

To get a one-color ribbon with LEDs, there are two basic types of light emitting diodes, a 5050 RGB LED strip and 3528 RGB LED strip.

SMD 5050 have three crystals, and they are brighter than SMD 3528. Latin letters are an abbreviation of the English language and translated as "instrument, mounted on the surface." The following figures show them diodes dimensions measured in millimeters. According to the number of LEDs per meter of the tape is classified: - SMD 3528 60, 120 and diodes 240 meter, - 5050 SMD 30, diodes 60 and 120 per meter. The larger the number of LEDs in a tape, it is more powerful and brighter. LED strip may differ from each other not only by the number of diodes but their size. This directly influences the power. Thus, the tape on the SMD 3528, has 60 diodes per meter consumes about 4 watts, and the tape on the SMD 5050, which has the same parameters - 60 diodes per meter, already will consume 14.4 watts. 3528 RGB LED strip with 120 diodes per meter required power 9.6 W, and the same tape SMD 3528, but with 240 diodes per meter, already require 16.8 watts. Parameters such as power and yardage affect the selection power source.