CBconcept 12VLR-65FT-WW Warm White 65-Feet Low Voltage 12-volt 2-Wire 1/2-Inch LED Rope Light, Christmas Lighting, Indoor/Outdoor Rope Lighting
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Product Feature
- Kit Includes: 12v 66-Feet Premium grade LED rope light with 2- bare wires ready to wire to battery pack or low voltage electric system
- Free Accessory Package: 66-Piece clips, 2-Piece online splices, 1-Piece T-shape connector
- Cool to touch when lit. Flexible and easy installation, Indoor/Outdoor, connect up to 200 -Feet
- Energy saving -LED Rope Light: 0.8Watts/FT vs. incandescent Rope Light: 5.5Watts/FT
- Allowable Cutting interval: 3-Feet 3-Inch . 36 LEDs per 3-Feet 3-Inch
Product Description
Concept is proudly introduce you this beautiful LED rope light, where it offers unparalleled advantage over traditional incandescent rope light. Its brightness, almost twice as brighter. Its low energy consumption, use as little as 10-Percent to 15-Percent compare to incandescent, and its long useful life, as much as 30 times more. Most of all, its beautiful color is unfound in incandescent lighting. with its flexibility, safety, and long lasting features, it's an ideal lighting for your home decorative project. Very popular with Walkways, Tree trunks, Hallways, Garage Door Frames, Stairs, Palm Trees, Dancing Rooms, Street Lamps, Arbors & trellises, Playhouses, Backyard Cottages, Sandboxes, Garden Houses, Gazebos, and Pergolas. ADDITIONAL ACCESSORY and Other LENGTH package, please see our store for more options or contact our friendly sales representative.CBconcept 12VLR-65FT-WW Warm White 65-Feet Low Voltage 12-volt 2-Wire 1/2-Inch LED Rope Light, Christmas Lighting, Indoor/Outdoor Rope Lighting Review
Well, it works, but that's where the good news ends.I got this today and immediately tested it using a 12VDC power supply
that I had from an earlier project. All segments worked and the light
quality was exactly what I wanted.
By the way, this strip, like all others I've used, wants a DC power
supply. It WILL work if connected to a 12VAC supply since an LED, like
all diodes, will function as a half-wave rectifier. However, this means
that only half of each AC cycle conducts and generates light, so it will
be half as bright as it should be and may even flicker to some eyes.
I verified this by reversing the DC leads and found that it conducts and
lights in only one direction. This is what I expected and is not a problem
since I ordered a little full-wave rectifier bridge from Amazon at the same
time.
However, it would be nice if this were documented somewhere, but NOTHING
is documented with this product, and THAT is the problem. For instance:
1. The Amazon site states that it requires 0.8 watts per foot which is
52 watts for a 65-foot rope. It would be nice if this were stated in the
documentation somewhere, but there is ABSOLUTELY no documentation in the box
and the only documentation on the box gives information like part number and
carton dimensions. Rather useless for the consumer.
2. It has an sticker pasted over the voltage entry, but it reads "12V" and
doesn't specify whether AC or DC. This is too important to leave out, since it
it makes a huge difference in power requirements. Since it works either way it
leaves me wondering what the manufacturer intended and whether my power
calculations are correct.
3. The box is so generic that there is no manufacturer listed and thus
no website to provide this information.
4. The Amazon site also states that it can be cut to length at ~3' intervals,
but without documentation it is unclear how and where, especially since it is all
enclosed in a protective tube. I've done this many times with non-enclosed LED
strips, but now I have to carefully and cautiously experiment with something that
should be obvious in the non-existant documention.
5. There are two accessory packages included. The first contains attachment
clips and doesn't really need instructions. The other contains parts which
appear to be for cutting and joining segments, but without documention it is not
yet clear how.
I'm a techie so I will find a way to make this work, but I would send it back
if I didn't have a lot of prior experience. I would never recommend this to a
friend as a do-it-yourself project. That's unfortunate since this could be a
five-star product with proper documentation. It appears to be a good product
suffering from a horrible delivery.
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