How to Choose Ideal Flexible LED Strip for Your Car

How to Choose Ideal Flexible LED Strip for Your Car
Recently, flexible LED strips are becoming more and more popular for its well-known advantages, such as super bright, twistable, waterproof, environmentally friendly and easy to install. Particularly, car / auto LED strips and LED headlights are greatly welcome by riding enthusiastic. People who are intended to decorate their cars, trucks or trailers often choose to DIY. But they may come across some problems. Here we provide you some tips while you are prepare to decorate your cars.

1. Measure the length you want to install the LED tape. Then you can cut the tape to any size you like and fold into any size due to its flexibility. Usually the flexible LED strips have self adhesive tapes on the back, so they are easy to apply.

2. The circuit of LED strips is usually series or parallel circuit. But if the length is more than 5 meter, the strips must be in shunt-wound connection, but not in series.

3. If you are particular about color, LED strip lights can meet your requirement for they are available in various emitting colors. Basically, they are available in single color like red, yellow, green, blue, cool white and warm white. They are also available in RGB multi colors that can be controlled by RGB a led controller.

4. If you are particular about the intensity of the light, a dimmer can be of great help. So you can control the strips when the lights are illuminated. Working with a dimmer, a wide range of light intensity would be possible for the LED tape.
5.Often the LED headlights have two types: the waterproof one and non-waterproof one. The Waterproof design is advisable, making it very easy to customize the car exterior without worrying about any water damage.

6.To ensure the lights run at normal brightness, a proper power supply is needed. As we known, too much can cause your transformer to overload and potentially damage your light strip. Here we advise you to add 20%+ tolerance. For instance, the power consumption of the led tape is 24 watt, a 24*(1+20%)=29W power supply will be advisable.

7. Only one RGB LED controller is needed no matter how long is the strip tape.

Some people may get confused at first, but with this tips in mind, you will have a better understanding of how to choose proper material for your car. Therefore you could successfully complete any size LED strips installation project.