How to Choose a LED Tape

LED strip is a long circuit board on which a bright and high-power LEDs. This device is ideal for the decoration of any premises. Due to its flexibility and compactness of the tape profitable emphasizes the contours of the interior design projects, provides illumination of niches for small and large sizes (e.g. 5m LED strip).

The most common tapes are SMD3528 and SMD5050. Abbreviation SMD reported that the installation of this type of electronic component is a superficial, i.e. the diode contacts are soldered directly to the mounting surface. SMT is widely used in electronics because of its compactness. The figures given after this abbreviation to indicate the size of the LEDs: 5050 - LED 5 x 5 mm, 3528 - diode 3.5 x 2.8 mm.

Having carefully reviewed the product, you will notice that the SMD 5050 there are six pins and SMD in 3528 LED strip light - two. The fact is that the first single crystal consists of three, and the last - only one. Accordingly, the brightness of the glow tape, 5050 SMD intense, but its price is higher.

An important role in choosing the color of the LED strip is given glow. One-color tape can be blue, green, yellow, red or white. However, if you want during the operation to change the color of light ribbon, choose full-color (RGB). To get the desired color, is enough to press the button on the remote controller.

Intending to use the tape in a room with high humidity or outdoors, pay attention to its protection class. Tapes can be water proof, for example, 12V waterproof LED strip lights. The latter is clearly visible conductive layer, and portions of the soldering elements are not protected, so their use is limited to places where the moisture they certainly will not get.