The differences between rigid and flexible LED strips

With the improvement of LED light technologies, LED light products have become the leader in the illumination market, because of its eco-friendly, energy-efficient, multipurpose and cost-effective. Numerous places across the world have progressively replaced traditional lights with LED lights. As the experienced supplier in China, we will provide you with a simple summary of LED strip lights, hoping that'll be useful to you.

LED light strips including flexible LED strips and rigid LED strips.

Firstly, flexible LED strips, also called LED tapes or LED ribbon, which manufactured by mounting the LED on the FPCB, and its thickness of the flexible LED strip is merely about 1mm. LED flexible strips are soft and coated with double-sided adhesive on the backside, convenient for installation in corners, rounded and abnormal areas. Moreover, the majority of the LED strips can be changed the length by cutting and lengthening. Applications of LED tapes are as follow.

1. The building shape lighting.

2. The decoration of the irregular object, like the irregular wall and the ceiling in hotels, clubs and KTVs etc.

3. Indoor decorative lighting, such as the doorframe, counter and cabinet etc.

4. Vehicle decorations.

5. Showcase and others.

Another one, rigid LED strip lights or LED hard strip lights. The only difference between the flexible and the rigid is that the hard strip light utilizes the rigid PCB with the material of aluminum or fiberglass. The strengths of LED rigid light strips are that it is easy to fix and install, the length can be customized based on usage requirements, and it has the higher heat-dissipation effect. The shortcomings are it can't be bent freely. Not suited to irregular places. Widely used in Jewelry showcase lighting, cabinet lighting, wardrobe lighting, store decoration lighting, art lighting, lightbox lighting, and house decoration lighting.

The most widespread on the market today are 12V and 24V LED strip light that is harmless to people. Definitely, there'll be covered by plastic profiles or tubes if the input voltage is AC 110V, AC 120V and AC 220V etc, for enhancing the safety performance of high-voltage LED strip lights. The ordinary lifespan is over 30,000 hours and the operating temperature is -30°C to 60°C. Categorized by colors, LED lights are usually separated into single color and RGB. The single color LED strips including red, green, blue, cool white, white, natural white, warm white. The RGB LED strips are color changeable by controlling 3 chips with different colors. There are also various other light strips available on the market, like RGBW, three-colors and so on.

In the above introduction, I think that everyone has an over-all idea of LED lights.