I saw this a while ago and decided to get some to try. It's designed to go into routed channels as a "bendable" LED strip with a separate diffuser section that presses into the routed channel.
Not having a router, I used one of my existing 3D printing scripts to make a square frame with rounded edges.
What you see in this video is my very first attempt at using the materials, and other than having to refine my LED tape laying techniques, it worked very well for a first try (just 5 minutes to complete). The videos showing this material being used in factories, show them using a pointy tool to help dress the LED tape around bends and corners.
For pro users there are two tools for cutting the material. A curved one for the round ends of the routed channels and an angled one for mitres on right angled corners.
There appear to be a few sellers of this material on Aliexpress. You buy the material and LED strip separately, but they choose the matching LED colour for you. The combined price is comparable to the rolls of integrated LED neon strip. It was much easier to terminate the wires on this stuff, and unless glue is used it is probably quite easy to repair sections.
Here's a link to the seller I bought this tape from:-
https://www.aliexpress.com/store/910456205
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Not having a router, I used one of my existing 3D printing scripts to make a square frame with rounded edges.
What you see in this video is my very first attempt at using the materials, and other than having to refine my LED tape laying techniques, it worked very well for a first try (just 5 minutes to complete). The videos showing this material being used in factories, show them using a pointy tool to help dress the LED tape around bends and corners.
For pro users there are two tools for cutting the material. A curved one for the round ends of the routed channels and an angled one for mitres on right angled corners.
There appear to be a few sellers of this material on Aliexpress. You buy the material and LED strip separately, but they choose the matching LED colour for you. The combined price is comparable to the rolls of integrated LED neon strip. It was much easier to terminate the wires on this stuff, and unless glue is used it is probably quite easy to repair sections.
Here's a link to the seller I bought this tape from:-
https://www.aliexpress.com/store/910456205
Supporting the channel with a dollar or two on Patreon helps keep it independent of YouTube's quirks, avoids intrusive mid-video adverts, gives early access, bonus footage and regular quiet Patreon live streams.
https://www.patreon.com/bigclive
#ElectronicsCreators
If you put the positive on one end and negative on the other you get more even illumination and can push them harder without destroying them.
The high street store Next have some one off signage and i managed to get a good look. it appeared that the led strip was clear plastic sub straight with 45 degree triangular cut after every led. Looked ideal for this, ive looked online but i suspect they must have got it made for them. Its available now but at the time it was had to find.
Plus an added lesson on how to cope with a pen. You'll possibly get a like from the palace.
Hey guys I was experimenting with this stuff yesterday it's really cool shit . Brill effect will you be using it in your Xmas display for the town Clive ? โบ all hail to the department of villany .
El wire works a little better for odd shapes but not as bright as LEDs
true blue clive the kid, "i saw this thing in a video, i think i can do that!", now we are doing that!
Clive you could spell out your channel name and when you go live you could have that in the backdrop that would look real sleek
Can you stretch one side of the LED strip using a heat gun? I say that because I throw a reel of plastic grass strimmer string into boiling water and it straightens out and forms round the bobbin easy without getting springy.
The strip looks like a massive sweetie. I wanna eat it.
Yeah, nothing worse than a "Dry Sharpie"
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Very nice display of someone who knows how to slice, but doesn't think too much about the slice. A glorious feeling when you measure to 0.00_ tolerance and fiddle the settings resulting in a smack on tolerance fit.
Very cool! I love when you do glowy things! Though I love most anything you do on the channel. You make everything interesting! Cheers!