LED Rope lights Brightness ??

Hi Barry,

I have used them and have 2 X 1 metre strips as lighting in our lounge room.
One strip is warm white and the other strips is cool white as a balance. Gives a nice comfortable light.

The cool white is leaning toward the blue so I mix it with a warm white, as I said for balance.

They are very good and are worth the money. I paid around $18 per roll via ebay from China.

Can recommend them no problems.

Cheers, Bruce

Hey there Barry, same again really, they are great. We have 3 x 1 metre lengths throughout our camper trailer. They run really well and are bright enough for all our needs. Recommend highly!!

if your talking about the the LED lights that come in 5mtr lenghts from China delivered to your door for $15, then i have some fitted to the rear doors of my Landcruiser and am happy with the amount of light they put out. to give you an idea, i have much less then 1mtr on each door (about half that actually), and the pic below does no justice to how much light they put out.

Hi Barry 2
We use them on our camper but we have stuck the leds onto stick on velcro so we can move them where ever we want them, we usually velcro them up under the awning over the kitchen, there great .
Judy

I bought strip lights from this mob

http://stores.ebay.com.au/FBL-INDUSTRIES

no affiliation, but they were great - waterproof with rigid alloy frame - easy to set up and robust

Barry 2
as for Rumpig, we use amber led lights,not quite as bright but keeps the bugs away.
Ken

As everyone else has suggested they are very good. The 5050 versions are the brighter ones - they have a larger LED chip. We use a 5m length with 60LED's per metre. Note that this length draws 2.1 amps though. You can buy the 5m rolls of flexible waterproof for $20 and cut them up as required.

Pat

One of things I look at in LED strips is the LUMEN output. If the sellor does not quote this I am not interested.
Over 12 months ago I got some from a factory in china that I do not think is on Ebay and they put out about 2400 lumens p/m which I understand is close to a Fluro tube. Cost a lot more than ebay items
Have a 1.2 metre length inside the camper and there is no problems reading books.
Use a 1.2 metre length outside in the kitchen area and also no problem.

Honky

There are all sorts of things like this around, the form and the brightness vary.

festoon on fig 8, chains of blocks, semi-stiff fiberglass strip, mylar tape and both rigid and flexible tube mountede stuff.

I have the chain of block style on the insides of the doods on my gullwing canopy...on the sides there is a bout 2 meters and the rear about 1.5 meters.......great stuff....about as bright as a single fluro.

The ones I got come from jaycar/electus and consist of plastic blocks containg 3 leds with wires inbetween like a chain.

one thing to be aware of with all of these is the adhesive.

some may have good adhesive, others quite poor...and the supplied adhesive may not be compatable with what you are fixing too.

clean raw aluminium and normal paint will be easier, but if you are trying to fix to polyester powdercoat or acrillic resin fibereglass/gellcoat you may have to use an alternative adhesive tape...AND always ..always clean the surface with a clean evaporating solvent first.

I've tried 4 different adhesive tapes and the first 3 failed to last on the gellcoat on the doors.

I picked up some very high bond tape from my local pannel beaters suppler, labled as trim tape with the red backing.
It seems to be doing the job betwer that the previous...but well see what happens when it gets hotter.

othewise I'll have to resort to sicaflex.

Any of these in a quality form are great things.....but remember there are heaps of led fittings out there too....have a look in the marine shops.

cheers

Hi there, as said before there are many different variations of the LED tape on the market.

If you are looking as more of a feature lighting the best LED tape for this application is the LED tape that is 4.8w per metre this will use a LED called 3528 SMD . It will have 60 LED's per metre and give a smooth effect.

If you are looking for actual working light (tends to be used under kitchen cabinets etc) the best LED tape would be the 14.4w per metre type and this will use an LED called 5050 SMD. It will have 60 LED's per metre and give a smooth effect.

Warm white is a more brown , halogen white.

Cool white is a more pure, cold white (sometime blue tint)

If you want to see some images of the types and more information see
Instyle LED white LED tape

Hi guys
I'm looking for some lighting for our camper trailer as a fathers day present.
These strip lights look really great!
Please excuse my ignorance, but how are they powered? Would we need an electrical degree to rig one up or are they pretty simple??
Thanks & cheers
Karyn