Hello everybody! This is my second video talking about led strips.
In this second video we are going to cut and connect a led strip with out soldering.
And we will review some accesories for led strips available in the market.
Here we have a 3528 led strip with 60 leds per meter, check out my previous video to see how to identify your led strip.
It is important to know the size you need for the accesories, in this case, for a 3528 led strip, it is 8mm.
The first accesory is very useful if you want to connect your transformer to a led strip with two simple wires at the end.
We can use then this piece to place it on the led strip
so later it will be very easy to connect it
to the most typical connector in a 12 volts transformer.
Here you have it again on your screen, as you see I bought it for 34 cents.
There it is, I have assembled it on a different led strip
so now I can connect it to the 12 volts transformer.
Nice, let's continue and see other accesories...
Ok, first thing we are going to do it's to cut out the led strip.
As we saw in the first led strips video,
we are going to cut it
following the line marked in the strip.
And then we are going to see which accesories can we use to join different led strips without soldering.
Allright, the cut is done and I have two pieces of strip to get connected.
The first thing we have to take in account is to connect positive with positive
and negative with negative, as you see in screen right now.
Check it out properly, since it will depend on how the strip is placed.
If the polarity does not match when you place the strips to be joined,
flip one of the strips before making the connection.
And then you will be able to use the connector
you will see on your screen.
Since we are using 3528 led strips,
we will choose an 8 milimeters width connector.
It they were 5050 led strips you would need 10 milimeters width connectors.
Let's see for example the connectors I bought.
Here they are, on the left side are the connectors for
5050 led strips, 10 mm width, 5 units, 57 cents.
On the right side there are the connectors for 3528 led strips, 8 mm width, 20 units, 2 Euros, 10 cents per unit.
Okay, once we have the accesories to join the led strips
we will open them and we will insert the end of the strips
connecting positive with positive (plus with plus)
and negative with negative.
Like that, the strips will be perfectly connected and we will be able to close the connector
and check out that the led strips lights properly.
Let's see now another type of connector,
in this case it is a T shape connector, 5 units, 1 Euro.
And we will follow the same procedure,
using the previous connector for the end of the strip and
this T shape accesory to join the three parts, checking always
the polarity, plus with plus and minus with minus.
It's even possible to use led strips with a different colour as far as they are all of the same size.
As always, 8 millimeters for the 3528 led strips, 10 mm for 5050 led strips.
Now let's see another accesory,
this one that you see on your screen is very practical
to connect a strip to its transformer including in the middle a switch without needing to cut out the cable.
I paid around a Euro and as you see to place it you only need to plug it.
And there are many other accesories,
now you can see on your screen 10 units
of a very interesting accesory to place two cables at the end of the strip without soldering.
These are only examples of the accesories you can find,
but there are lots, like this kit of different accesories with and L shape, T shape, cross shape...
The full kit costs around 1,50 Euros.
If you have a look in Internet you will find many other accesories for your projects.
Thanks for watching, see you next time.
