What is the difference between a copper bracket and an iron bracket?

At present, there are many kinds of LED products on the market, and the products with the same brightness and parameters may have different prices. The main reason for the difference in price is the difference in their materials. Today we will introduce two main metal brackets in the LED strip lights' industry: copper brackets and iron brackets.

The SMD LED bracket is formed by PPA and metal. Normally, the bracket will be plated with silver to facilitate the light and connect with the LED gold wire. The functions of the bracket are carrying the chips, conducting the current, increasing the heat dissipation and protecting the internal structures.

The bracket of SMD LED

At present, the copper brackets and the iron brackets are the two main metal brackets in the industry. The resistivity and thermal conductivity of copper are 1.678 and 401 that are better than that of the iron's 9.71 and 80. We all know that the temperature is one of the major factors affecting the LED's life. The resistivity and the thermal conductivity of the bracket directly affect the lifespan of LED. The lower the LED resistivity, the higher the LED electro-optical conversion efficiency, the smaller the heat generation. The higher the LED thermal conductivity, the better the cooling effect.

It can be seen that the copper bracket is better than the iron bracket in quality. Besides, the high ductility of the copper brackets will also reduce the death rate of LEDs. Furthermore, due to the iron is easy to rust, once the iron is rusted, the silver-plated layer will fall off and the LED will be broken.

Light strips take the lead in showcase lighting

The purpose of using LED strip lights in showcases is that to make the products more expressive and more attractive to customers. Therefore, the showcase is designed to create a specific lighting environment and effectively display the goods.

In addition to considering the size and layout of space, the visual and psychological effects of customers created by the light are also the significant features. Selecting the proper LED lighting according to various products to create the best phenomenon. For example, the jewel showcases will be designed to using the main light source at the top, and install additional light source in the inner side to increase the overall brightness and layering.

Jewel showcase

LED light strips provide sufficient illumination for the showcase, coupled with a suitable lighting atmosphere can better capture the eyes of customers. Moreover, the flexible LED tape lights also can be used to increase the festival atmosphere.

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What're the advantages of LED light strips for light box backlighting?

With the development of light boxes' backlighting, LED strip lights are commonly used in advertising lighting, for its long lifespan, low energy consumption, and easy installation.

1. Long service life
Due to the high quality of SMD LEDs and advanced process, most of the LED strip lights have a life of up to 50,000 hours, and the light almost has no droop in the long period of working, which not only avoids the frequent replacement of backlighting but also meets the brightness demand of lightbox lighting.

2. Low energy consumption

The energy consumption of LED strips is only 20% of that of the traditional light tube, and the LED lighting has a better heat dissipation effect.

3. Easy installation

LED light strips are more convenient for installation than other light sources. For example, the LED curtain strip lights only need to hang on the top of the light box for fixation, which greatly saves the labor cost of installation.

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What is the basis for selecting the LED light bar of the lightbox?

There are many types of advertising light boxes, different light boxes are suitable for using places. Likewise, choosing LED light strips and design layout as the specific requirements of light boxes can make the perfect display effect without dark areas. In the following, according to different environments, we are going to recommend different LED strip lights.

The first is the outdoor advertising light boxes that commonly use in the bus stops, streets, and other public places. Since the water will damage the LED backlighting, the waterproof LED strips will be a better choice if the waterproof performance of the lightbox is not good enough. There are many types of waterproofing techniques such as IP65 glue waterproof, IP67 tube waterproof, and IP68 waterproof. After the waterproof process, LED lights have the excellent sealing performance to protect the internal components from rainwater.

There are also indoor light boxes in the indoor environment such as subway stations, shopping malls, exhibition halls. Due to the indoor lightboxes won't be damaged by the rain, It is more suitable to use the non-waterproof LED strip lights, which not only can save cost but also have a better heat dissipation condition.

Nowadays, the ultra-thin light boxes with a thickness of 3 to 10 cm are more and more popular. Obviously, in such a short distance between the backlights and cloth, traditional LED strips with a beam angle of 120 degrees cannot achieve the best lighting effect. Therefore, LED curtain strip lights with an emitted angle of 170 degrees were created. With the wide beam angle, LED curtain strips are able to achieve better lighting effect with lower quantity.

Four points to note about home lighting #4

It is well known that different colors can reflect a person's personality to some extent. The same goes for home lighting, the different arrangement of light colors can create various lighting atmosphere and partly mirror the character and aesthetics of the user. Nevertheless, too many colors in house-lighting will make it look like incongruous as well as can't reflect the lighting style well. Furthermore, if the difference between colors is too large, it will make people who live in such a lighting environment have the uneasy and unnatural feeling.

Some user like the colorful and dynamic lighting effects of outdoor advertising, and imitate them into their house. Excessive use of RGB LED light strips, colorful spotlights, and other muti-colors lights, even though seem very magnificent, in the long term, these colorful, flickering, changing lighting effects have the negative influence on vision. This kind of LED lights is applied extensively in advertising lighting, for its dynamic light can easily draw people's attention and we won't be in this light environment for long. Therefore, the lighting arrangement of different places is different, and other lighting plans should not be directly copied. Surely, there are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people's eyes. In normal home lighting, in order to create a comfortable and harmonious lighting environment, we suggest that take the white-light LED lights as the main lighting of the house and decorate with a few of other colors of light. If dynamic, colorful lighting is required, it can be installed separately and controlled independently.

This is the last article of HOUSE-LIGHTING series. We hope these will help you in the selection of LED lights and arrangement of home-lighting.

Four points to note about home lighting #3

From last two posts, Four points to note about home lighting #1, and #2, we learned that the brightness and CCT are the key factors that we need to notice when select and install home lighting. The different brightness and different color temperature can create a completely different home lighting atmosphere.

In post #1, we are mentioned that the luminous difference between different rooms should be controlled in the reasonable range. Our eyes will be uncomfortable and fatigued by frequently adapt to very different brightness. Post #1 represented the overall brightness of the house need to be unified. Not only the whole, as well as the small areas need to pay attention to the contrast between light and dark.

Nowadays, decorative lighting became an important part of interior lighting. Most people like to decorate the living room with LED spotlights, LED strips and other decorative lights. In general, the decorative lights are not high-brightness, which can not provide enough light for our lives. For example, if we only turn on the decorative lights on TV background wall when watching TV at night, the strong contrast of light and dark will cause the eyestrain, even vision impairment in the long run. Likewise, it is also a bad habit that reading under a small desk lamp for a long time. The low-brightness LED light strips are the popular decorative lights in the bedroom, which can also be used as the auxiliary lighting, helping us see and it doesn't dazzling. Furthermore, adding the controller to dim the LED strips also a good method, which allows us to vary the brightness according to the actual requirement.

In short, the brightness of indoor lighting should be reasonable and similar.

Four points to note about home lighting #1

Home lighting is an important part of our house. With the development of LED technology, LED lights are applied in our house for illumination and decoration such as LED bulbs, LED tubes, LED Panel Lights, LED strip lights and so on. House lighting allows us to live like we do during the day, as well creates different atmosphere through different lights. But there are a few matters needing attention in the choice of illumination lights. Using lights incorrectly not only wastes electric energy and cost but also have a negative influence on our lives. We will cover this topic in four parts because there is too much content, hoping the posts will be helpful to you.
In this post, we are going to talk about the brightness, the most obvious factor, that has the biggest effect on human sense. As we all know, our eyes had better not often work in areas that are too bright or too dark. Because of the hard light will hurt our eyes, and the dim light makes people unable to see clearly, which result in eyestrain. Therefore, it is necessary to design different lighting schemes according to the structure of the house to achieve the proper brightness.
The functional areas inside the house have different lighting requirements. For example, the living room is an area for daily activities and entertainment, which determines that it needs to be the bright environment. Similarly, other areas of daily activity, such as the dining room, home office, reading room etc., require relatively high brightness to meet the needs. However, the light in the bedroom cannot be too bright, for it is the place for rest and the bright light is not good for sleep. Likewise, the soft light will be more suitable for the bathroom.
Furthermore, it has to be taken into account that although the above shows that various areas need different illumination intensity, the brightness of different places in a house should not be too different. Because the difference in brightness is so great, our eyes need to adjust to different brightness frequently, which can lead to eye fatigue and affect vision.