Guide to LED Strips

Guide to LED Strips LED light bar is also known as LED light strip, and its English name is LED Strip. As for the light bar, it is estimated that it is also formed by taking its shape and adding the original parts. The quality of light strips on the market is uneven, how to choose a good LED brand light strip, now I will introduce the relevant knowledge to you, when purchasing, don't just pay attention to the price.

Domestic users also like to use the keyword of LED flexible light strip or flexible light strip to search on Baidu. The same product has different names, but the suitable crowd is also different. Now it has been widely used in furniture, automobiles, advertisements, lighting, ships and other industries. The service life of the LED light bar is theoretically 100,000 hours. In fact, considering the light decay, it is far from that long in practical applications; the quality is better, the light decay per thousand hours is only about a few percent, and the light decay of the less , can reach 10 to 20 percent, the gap is very large.

LED light strips are generally divided into two types: LED flexible light strips and LED rigid light strips. LED flexible light strips use FPC as circuit boards, and LED rigid light strips use hard boards as circuit boards. The general specification of the voltage used is DC 12V voltage, and some use 24V voltage. There are also special customized ones with special voltages, such as 6V and 9V.

The common light bar specification on the market is to use 12V voltage. Chips used: chips include domestic and Taiwan chips, as well as imported chips (including American chips, Japanese chips, German chips, etc.). Different chips have different prices.

At present, American chips are the most expensive, followed by Japanese chips and German chips, and Taiwanese chips are moderately priced. What kind of chip is used? What kind of effect do you want to achieve? Be aware before purchasing. Secondly, LED packaging: divided into resin packaging and silicone packaging.

The price of the resin package is cheaper, because the heat dissipation performance is slightly worse, everything else is the same. Silicone encapsulation has good heat dissipation performance, so the price is slightly more expensive than resin encapsulation. Understand FPC material: FPC is divided into two types: rolled copper and copper clad. Copper clad is cheaper, and rolled copper is more expensive.

The pads of the copper-clad board are easy to fall off when bent, but the rolled copper will not. Which kind of FPC material to use depends on the purchaser's own decision based on the use environment. .