PURPOSE, CHARACTERISTICS AND CAPABILITIES OF LED STRIPS

In the last decade, LED strips have gained great popularity in the field of household and outdoor lighting, interior design as well as industrial and workplace lighting. This technology is not homogenous, as it offers a variety of specialised solutions. However, the main features of all LED strips are their lifetime, energy efficiency and the ease of implementation in diverse applications. The TME catalogue offers a wide choice of these products, and our clients show continued interest in their capabilities. Below, we present a practical overview of TME’s products from the LED strips category, divided depending on their:To get more news about custom neon signs, you can visit htj-led.com official website.

The manufacturers whose portfolios we are going to focus are among the leading suppliers of LED lighting. These are specialised companies operating in the international markets. The first one is Asia-based WISVA Optoelectronics, which has been promoting LED light sources as an ergonomic and flexible alternative to traditional technologies for over 12 years. The second supplier is iPixel, a manufacturer from China whose main focus are neon and special effect LED strips, offering a full range of products with an excellent price-quality ratio. The third noteworthy brand is Ledxon, a German manufacturer with a vast portfolio and over 30 years of experience in the lighting industry. Its portfolio of products includes a variety of LED strips and is constantly expanded in terms of this segment of products, mostly for office and household lighting. Last, but not least, let us also list WorldSemi here, which is one of the undisputable leaders in manufacturing not only programmable electroluminescent diodes but also (or maybe most of all) LED RGB drivers that are in fact a worldwide standard in the field of special effect LED lighting.

The first group here includes LED strips emitting white light. Their basic parameter is the maximum power (per one metre of a strip) which, in the case of the products that are available from TME, ranges from 3W to 30W, which translates into brightness from the range of 80lm/m to 2912lm/m. To compare, a classic 60W lightbulb emits light with the intensity of approximately 800lm. Even such a simple comparison illustrates perfectly the power-related superiority of LED sources of lighting. We are talking here about the light produced by a strip powered by constant rated voltage. Thanks to a driver (a power supply) that has an adjustable voltage or that supplies power in the form of pulse-width modulation, the user can set the lighting intensity precisely and limit the energy consumption.

It should be emphasised that a segment of a “white” LED strip consists of a wide range of colour temperatures. A “warm” light, resembling a candle flame, is a temperature of 1800K. Neutral lighting (obtained in photography with the use of a flash) comes from sources with the colour characteristics of approx. 3500-4500K. The “coldest” among the LED strips available in the TME catalogue produce a white colour with the temperature of 10000K, comparable to the colour scheme of a cloudy day (white surfaces become light blue). In some models of LED strips, the colour temperatures can be regulated (within the range indicated by the manufacturer), thanks to which they can be adjusted to the time of the day or to the individual preferences of the user.

The second type of strips offered by TME is based on LED diodes producing light of one strictly specified wavelength, i.e. single-colour diodes. The TME catalogue offers products emitting red, purple, blue, pink, green, golden and yellow colours. They are an excellent choice when it comes to interior design, advertising, signboards etc., because obtaining the colour effect does not require the use of any special controllers, which translates into the simplicity and energy efficiency of the mounting process.

The last type of lighting in our offer are RGB LED strips, which have been gaining great popularity recently. Their colours can be modified by changing the intensity of the red, green and blue components. Depending on the selected model, the user chooses the lighting colour along the entire length of the strip, on a section consisting of 3 RGB diodes or for each RGB LED separately (programmable strips). What is more, the TME catalogue also offers RGBW products where each model is additionally equipped with a white LED. This means that a series of electroluminescent diodes may act as standard lighting or, if needed, it can be used to produce multicolour light effects. Such products are a perfect solution in places that require a flexible arrangement, e.g. shop windows or museums, but they are used mostly in entertainment locations or household interiors.