Flexible LED Strip Lights Wiring Diagram

Connecting an LED strip parallel or in series is basically no difficult task. Now it could be that you want to connect multiple LED strips. Then schematically indicate just that helping hand that you need. Daatom we have to clarify a number of wiring diagrams for you to put a row.

1. Single-color led strip 3528 without dimmer series.

Led strip wiring diagram without dimmer in series

2. Single-color led strip 3528 without dimmer parallel

Led strip wiring diagram dimmer without parallel

3. Single color LED strip 3528 with dimmer

Led strip wiring diagram with dimmer in series

4. Single color LED strip 3528 with dimmer parallel

Led strip wiring diagram with dimmer parallel

5. RGB led strip 5050 series

Led strip wiring diagrams 5050 series

6. RGB led strip 5050 series with amplifier in series

Led strip wiring diagram 5050 with amplifier

7. RGB led strip 5050 series with parallel amplifier

Led strip wiring diagram

8. RGBW led strip 5050 series with parallel amplifier

Led strip wiring diagram 5050 RGBW with amplifier

9. Color Temperature led strip 5050 series with parallel amplifier

Led strip wiring diagram 5050 Color Temperature with amplifier

10. Led strips square

Led strip wiring diagram square / rectangle

11. High-Power Quad row 3528 2400LEDs LED Strip series

Led strip wiring diagrams 3528 series

12. High-Power Super Long 3528/5050 LED Strip series

Led strip wiring diagram with amplifier parallel

How to Choose and Buy LED Strip Lights? Buying Guide

1. Chips
Chips of LED strip lights include domestic ones, Taiwan-made chips, as well as imported chips(including chips from U.S., Japan, Germany, etc.). Different chips are labeled with different prices. The most expensive chips come from U.S., which is followed by Japan's and Germany's. Taiwan-made chips are affordable for many manufacturers.

2. Sealing
There're 2 types of sealing, resin sealing and silicone sealing. The resin one is cheaper, but the thermal performance is a bit weak. The silicone one has good thermal performance while the price is more expensive.

3. LED Color Consistency
Though currently there are a lot of packaging factory, but most of small packaging plants have no color separation machine. Thus it is difficult to control the quality. Without spectral separation of the LED, the color consistency would be poor. The light effect of LED strips is not so good. of course. the price difference will be relatively large.
smd led strip

4. Soldering Effect
There're 2 types of soldering, manual soldering and machine soldering. The later is much better than the former one because the soldering quality is much better. A good soldering ensures a good protection of chips from burning out.

5. Certification
You'd better check whether the FPC is certified with environmental certification, or UL certification. Also please check whether the manufacturers have LED patents. LED strip lights with certification or patents are more expensive.

6. Brightness
Different prices for different LED brightness. Purchaser must be clear the difference before they make a decision.

7. Colors
Because it's more difficult to do color separation process of white strip, and green strip, the price of these color strip lights are relatively high. Stip lights in red, yellow, blue and other colors are cheaper. Lights with special colors, such as purple, or brown, are most expensive.

8. Size and Specification
The prices can be different due to different sizes and specification. For example, the price of 0603 LED strips is different from that of 1210. The prices of 1210 and 5050 also differ from each other.

9. Surface Cleanliness
The surface of strip lights, which are produced with SMT technology, is much cleaner. But the one produced with manual soldering can be found with traces of stains and cleaning. Also there remains flux and tin slag on FPC surface.

10. Packaging
Normally, LED strip lights, usually 5m or 10m in a roll roll, will be packed with anti-static packaging trays, and moisture-proof outer package. Some manufacturer would not use the package tray or waterproof package for cost-saving purpose; thus lights from these manufacturers are cheaper, but the quality is not as good as the other's.

11. Label
There is a printed label mark, instead of extra paper printing labels, on lights' package. Specifications and parameters of poor quality strip lights could not match the product's itself.

12. Accessories
Usually, LED strip lights will be sold accompanied with user instructions, specifications, and connectors or deck. If not, you'd better check the light quality once more.

How to Select LED Strip Lights for Home Decoration?

Now we're going to talk about the selection of LED strip lights for home decoration. You should pay attention to the following notes on how to select LED strip lights.

Why LED strips are always recommended for home decoration? Because:

1. LED strip light is soft. It can curl like power wire.
2. It can be cut and connected.
3. The bulb and the circuit is completely encapsulated in a flexible plastic cover, which ensures a good insulation, waterproof, safe condition in use.
4. LED strips are weather resistance(-20-50 ℃).

LED strip lighting for home decoration

5. It's not easy to break. Besides, it has a long life, up to 80,000 ~ 100,000 hours.
6. It's easy to make graphics, text and other shapes.
7. It has rich colors. The color effects include white, green, yellow, red, orange, warm white, red and blue, purple, or mixed colors.
8. Energy-saving and eco-friendly. Cold light, No radiation, no mercury elements, no harmful substances.
9. Easy installation. Widely used in home decoration, like ceiling and light tank.
10. Pure LED strip. Currently, there're six light sources for LED stripes, including light in red, yellow, blue, green, white and warm white. Due to the different value of light sources itself, the price of led strips in various colors are different. Lights in red is the cheapest; blue one is a little more expensive; green one cost more than the blue one and the white; warm white is the most expensive.

How to Select LED Strip Lights for Home Decoration?

Color is the most import factor which should be considered in selecting led strip lighting for home decoration.

Notes for Color Choices
LED strip colors

People has different ideas and favorites on color selection. Here are my advices. Generally, you'd better choose light colors, like white, for your ceiling decoration. According to room usage, yellow or blue is most common used for living room. Yellow light shows a sweet and nature mood, especially in a freezing cold winter days. Blue makes your room looks higher and deeper. If you love warm colors, red is also a nice choice. If you use double strips in red and blue, it turns out a romantic effect. Yellow is always the right choice for restaurant, study room and children room. It's better to use one color strip in one single room.

Notes for LED Strip Wholesale
You'd better to make a decision on colors and length before you buy any types of led strip lights. This will help to save you more money.

The price of LED strip is counted by length. Every 1 or 2 meters is a unit. So please pay attention when measuring the length of strips. Also please be sure to have a mark on strip for accuracy cut.

Led strip light consumes little electricity, about 3-5W / m, so it's much more energy efficient than T4 or T5 lamps. Besides, it can apply to different ceiling shapes.

Finally, round LED strip is not as bright as flat one. But it's cheaper. You should consider it during selection.

Why LED Strip Light Won't Light Up? Troubleshooting

Today we'll answer the frequently asked question. "why LED strip light won't light up". If you find your flexible LED strip light won't light up or power up, you may check the following troubleshooting information for help.

1. The lamp beads of led strip light must be broken or damaged during transportation if the light is not covered with full protection.

2. There must be a faulty at the light's soldering points. The soldering may come off if there is any shock during transportation.

3. Soldering with poor quality may cause embrittlement or shedding when the strip light is bent for use.

4. Cheat on tin soldering materials can also cause the same problem as the 2 point we just mentioned.

5. LED lights with flexible installation bending angle is too large, resulting in LED lights with flexible joints and lead to bright copper separation
flexible led strip lights

6. A excessive bending may result in the disconnection between the joints and copper foil.

7. Thick solder layer on strip light's circuit board lead to a non-complete fusion of the soldering and the circuit board.

8. LED Flexible Strip light can not be twisted during installation. The soldering may come off by a twisting.

9. Electrostatic failure. LED is an electrostatic-sensitive component. If there is no good ESD protection measures for LED, the chip will burn out.

If you cannot find the information you need, please leave a message below. I'll try to update later.

WS2812B chip black PCB 60ledm individually addressable LED digital pixel...

This is 5V WS2812B WS2811 IC RGB Dream Color Series Programmable LED Flexible Strip Lights, 60LEDs per meter, The new WS2812B(the WS2812B is an upgraded version of the WS2811 LED) now only has 4 pins, durable and easy for installation. This simpler layout and can be controlled separately to each one lamp, every LED is cuttable. Low working voltage, DC5v, ensure safety in wet condition. The transparent of silicon glue and epoxy resin glue can make the light transmittance reach at least 90%,the bare board can make it up to 100%.

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Flexible Strip Light (Single Row)
LEDs Type:   SMD5050
IC Type:   WS2812B IC
Light Color:    Full color RGB DreamColor Multicolor 
Color Models:   Can be Programmable 
Working Temperature:   -4°F (-20°C) ~ 140°F (60°C)
LED Chip:   Epistar
Dimension:   4meter/reel  with 3M adhensive tape on the back
Q'ty of LED:   60leds/meter, each LED is separately controller
Lifetime:   50,000+hours
Standards And Certifications:    CE/FCC/CE/ROHS Compliant/UL Listed
Dimensions:    L 4000mm(157.48") x W 10mm(0.39") x H 2.5mm(0.1") 
Cuttable :   every LED is cuttable
Color Temperature(CCT):   3200-7500K
Luminous Flux:   800-900 Lumens/Meter
Lamp Luminous Flux(lm):   16-18LM/pcs
Grey scale:   256
Bits/color:   8-bits/color; total 24bit for RGB color
Wavelength:   Red 620-625 (λ)  ; Green 522-525 (λ) ; Blue 465-467 (λ)
Brightness:   Red 390-420 (λ) ; Green 660-720 (λ) ; Blue 180-200 (λ)
Light intensity:   500-600 (mcd) 900-1200 (mcd) 250-310 (mcd)
Input Voltage(V):   5VDC 
Working Current:   11.5A/reel
Lamp Power:   14.4 watt/meter, 57.6watt/roll
Pixel:   60pixel/meter
Warantty:   3 years
Beam Pattern:   180 degree
IP Rating:   Waterproof in silicon tube IP67 or no-waterproof IP20
PCB Backing:   White or black
CRI (Ra>):   74

WS2811 chip black PCB 32led per meter individually addressable LED digit...

This is 5V drive IC WS2801 magic RGB Dream Color Series Programmable LED Flexible Strip Lights, 32LEDs per meter, 160LEDs per reel, Full color LED strip light, Digital led flexible strip, Can perform various effects by full color led controller. The WS2801 IC now only has 4 pins, durable and easy for installation. This simpler layout and can be controlled separately to each one lamp, every LED is cuttable. Low working voltage, DC5v, ensure safety in wet condition. The transparent of silicon glue and epoxy resin glue can make the light transmittance reach at least 90%,the bare board can make it up to 100%.
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LED Strip Type:   Flexible Strip Light
LEDs Type:   SMD5050
IC Type:   WS2801 IC
IC Qty:   32/meter
Light Color:    Full color RGB DreamColor Multicolor 
Color Models:   Can be Programmable 
Working Temperature:   -4°F (-20°C) ~ 140°F (60°C)
Dimension:   5meter/reel  with 3M adhensive tape on the back
Q'ty of LED:   32leds/meter, each LED is separately controller
Lifetime:   50,000+hours
Standards And Certifications:    CE/FCC/CE/ROHS Compliant/UL Listed
Dimensions:    L 5000mm(196.85") x W 10mm(0.39") x H 2.5mm(0.1") 
Cuttable :   every LED is cuttable
Color Temperature(CCT):   3200-7500K
Luminous Flux:   800-900 Lumens/Meter
Lamp Luminous Flux(lm):   16-18LM/pcs
Grey scale:   256
Bits/color:   8-bits/color; total 24bit for RGB color
Wavelength:   Red 620-625 (λ)  ; Green 522-525 (λ) ; Blue 465-467 (λ)
Brightness:   Red 390-420 (λ) ; Green 660-720 (λ) ; Blue 180-200 (λ)
Light intensity:   500-600 (mcd) 900-1200 (mcd) 250-310 (mcd)
Input Voltage(V):   5VDC 
Working Current:   2A/meter, 10A/reel
Lamp Power:   12 watt/meter, 60watt/roll
Pixel:   32pixel/meter
Warantty:   3 years
Beam Pattern:   180 degree
IP Rating:   Waterproof in silicon tube IP67 or no-waterproof IP20
PCB Backing:   White or black
CRI (Ra>):   73

Why is my RGB or Single Color Flexible LED Strip Lights so Dim at One End(about the use of the LED amplifier)?

Whenever a current is flowing, the current will meet some resistance or something will impede its flow, the amount of voltage loss through the entirety of a circuit, or even a part is voltage drop. In low voltage lighting systems such as flexible LED strip lights, voltage drops occur because the input voltage from the power supply gradually decreases over the length of the strip.

The longer the flexible led strip light tape, the more resistance the current has to overcome, hence it loses voltage along the way. The result is dimming lights the further down the LED strip you get because the light emitting diodes (SMD chips) at the end of the strip are less bright than those at the start, which is closest to the power supply. This condition causes the load to work harder with less voltage pushing the current.

If the flexible LED strip light runs off a 12-volt power supply, then you have 12 volts going into the strip light system at the start but the other end will not have 12 volts due to the voltage drop. This can be prevented with some simple rules that are outlined below.

Voltage drop is a function of wire length, wire thickness, and the total watts of power used by the flexible LED strip lights. A reduction of brightness and color accuracy in longer flexible LED strip lights is due to excessive voltage drop. The excessive voltage drop may result in unsatisfactory operation of, and damage to, electrical outlets and the flexible LED strip tape lights. The distance from the power source to the desired end distance of the flexible LED strip tape is called a run. Shorter and/or thicker wires will raise the brightness and color consistency to the strip lights’ full potential.

We at LEDStripSales.com LED Lighting can help you choose the right power supply, gauge of wire, and distance of wire to match the right length of flexible LED strip lights, so you experience minimal voltage drop. If the run is too long and you experience voltage drop, we will help you find solutions to overcome the problem.

One solution to a voltage drop issue is to run the LED strip lights in parallel. As pictured here, there are three parallel runs from one power supply as opposed to one power supply sourcing the full strip of lights. Ideally, you want the shortest length of wire from the power supply to the flexible LED strip lights. On the second and third run however, this is not possible, and on the third one we add a thicker gauge wire, which allows for more current to travel through the wire to the because of the larger surface area of wire.

A multimeter also called a multitester can be used to measure the voltage at the end of the run. The acceptable voltage drop for a flexible LED light system should not exceed %3 or be lower than .36 volts from a 12 volt input power supply.

12 volts x 3% = 0.36 volts.

At LEDstripsales.com LED Lighting, we will show you how to do this in an upcoming video.

Basic voltage drop law is Vdrop = IR

I: the current through the object, measured in amperes

R: the resistance of the wires, measured in ohms

When calculating voltage drop, keep these things in mind:

Total wattage draw of your flexible led light system- This is done by multiplying the wattage of your flexible LED strip light by the distance of your run. This will be either in meters or feet/inches depending on the information you are given about your flexible LED strip lights. Ex: If your 5050 60 LED/M strip lights are 14.4 watts per meter and the length of the strip light is 2.5 meters, multiplying 14.4 by 2.5 will give you the total wattage draw.
Length of the wire starting from the power supply to the front of the flexible led strip light.
Thickness of the wire you are using in your flexible led light system; the thicker the wire the smaller the number. This is known as wire gauge (AWG). This table shows the appropriate wire gauge to use depending on how far away the flexible LED strip light is from the power supply:

Wattage and amperage of direct current (DC) power supply.
Load current- In DC system there is no power factor, so we can find the current easily. Power=voltage x current       current(I)=power/voltage

So you can use the LED strip light amplifiers to solve this problem.

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