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Good item for the price.
Posted by CyBz0r on 5/10/2008
Involvement: Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week

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Pros: Bright even light.
Cheaper than building your own, and saves time.
Easy to cut to desired length or to connect several units together.


Cons: Solderings are awful.
Some LEDs are not placed firm against the PCB.


Other Thoughts: Draws 0,35A @ 12V.
LEDs are connected in groups of 3 along with a 1K resistor.
Three groups per section, 8 whole sections.
The last section consists of 3 leds.


Bottomline: Good unit for the price.
I would only use it indoors as it is a very basic design, a PCB slided into a piece of plastic.


Very good unde counter light
Posted by slider101 on 4/9/2008
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Pros: Very light, easy to work with.
Very cool blue white light. Not much heat output.
almost cool to the touch running 24/7.
I'm planning on buying several more.

Cons: The strip is not solidly connected to the exterior housing, it slides inside the housing.
Fragile, second light arrived slightly damaged, better pacaging could have prevented this.
I was able to repair it after about an hour's work.

Other Thoughts: I'm running two strips on a wall plug that is rated for 500 ma, and the output voltage is still 12V, the wall plug is warm, but NOT hot.

Bottomline: I'm curious to see if they really draw the 2A that someone has postulated, according to the printing.
I may put an inline digital ammeter on it tomorrow.

Bright, but not bright enough
Posted by TennesseeTony on 3/28/2008
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Pros: The light output is blue-white, and very very very wide angle, I'd say almost 180 degrees light output.

This strip is divided up into 8.33 sections, yes, 8 and one third. Each section has nine leds, the 1/3 section has, you guessed it, three.

EACH of these sections is labeled 12V75W25A, which, when translated, is 12 volts, and I assume, again, I ASSUME .75 watts and .25 amps per each section.

That's a total of 6.25 Watts, at 2.01 amps at 12volts DC.

YES, the wires are labeled VCC and GND. It further looks as if you can break this strip into 9LED segments, as there are print marks and solder points to connect the wiring every nine LEDS. Further, as the 1/3 section consists of 3LEDS, I assume you could actually break it down to sections of 3, instead of nine.

I haven't broken mine yet, into segments, but I may. It is a rather bright strip, but it should be brighter for 75 leds that consume 6.25 watts. Gets warm too. It will probably be too much for my car trunk, but hey, it'll be a great help loading up all the bodies...er, groceries, yeah, groceries. :)

Cons: Not sealed, no moisture resistance.

Cool blue. Not the worst I've seen, but not the most natural of colors indoors.

2 amps? Not going be running this one on any wall transformers, are ya? Have a fire extinguisher ready. ;)

Definitely not as bright as I expected 75 LEDs to be. But it IS BRIGHT, no doubt, just not up to my expectations. I'd say it's on par with the output of a 20 to 25watt incandescent bulb

Other Thoughts: I've not tested it above 12volts DC. My plan originally was to use it as a car trunk light. I may now run some wiring from out of my daughter's computer and up to this thing, mounted at the top of her desk, to act as a reading light/night light anytime she has the computer powered up.

Bottomline: A semi-bright, power hungry strip that (likely) can be broken down (cut) into shorter segments if needed.

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