Review on 32.8ft Waterproof RGB LED Strip Lights, ELlight Dream Color LED Lights with Multicolor Chasing, Flexible 300 LEDs SMD 5050 Strip Lighting Kit for Home Kitchen - Controlled by APP by Troy Kocur

03/31/2020: first purchase I am satisfied with what these types of lights can do. I can get a "theatrical" effect from them with red in a low or calm mood in general, and I can change the color or brightness when I want to cheer myself up. Has been working for a week now with no problems. Overall I'm very, very happy with how even and soft the lighting is when using it at night. No longer dazzling like traditional incandescent bulbs, but subtly lit enough to actually walk around, like getting up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. The installation requires some basic preliminary considerations in terms of room dimensions and LED strip dimensions, taking into account the distance to the socket. The review is long because I want to be detailed, so it's structured like this: problem, setup, basic review == problem == I'll talk about the problem first because that's how you understand I don't have any problems otherwise . The wire connectors from LED strips to each other/adapters don't have a locking mechanism and don't go in very deep to the point where you really have to compensate for that yourself I think. But the tape solved the problem perfectly. You'll need more than one strip if your connections are vertical (hell gravity). I bet even duct tape will do, just wrap it tight. I had no trouble getting the connectors together (horizontal mount) but my vertical connection came loose after a few days despite the tape. I'm pretty sure it was my fault for not recording it, I just did it really quickly. They are so light that if I glued them well there would be no reason for them to come loose unless your LED adapter box is hanging around and pulling them down. The only other "problem" is that I have no idea how long this will take, so I'll just report back in a year. == Setup == You will need a measuring tape or measuring tape so you know exactly where your LED strip ends. If you just want a basic setup like me, I had to measure the height and length of my room. Each strip consists of 16 foot LEDs and the strips can be connected to a power supply to form a 32 foot strip or both, giving two separate 16 foot strips from the power supply. And by 16 feet I mean a piece of pure LED strip, with no wire connectors. Then I just used masking tape to test how they look at different heights/shapes. Basically you need to see how long the power supply cable is and the LED adapter cable that will then connect to it and how you are going to install them as the LED strips connect to the cables coming from the LED adapter. I personally went for a low maintenance setup (because I'll be moving them around when I'm not too lazy and the power supply looks too heavy for duct tape anyway) so I left the power supply loose and glued the LED. up the adapter to give it a bit more vertical reach so the LED strips don't have to go down that far (the adapter is pretty thin so sticking tape on it isn't a problem). You can probably get about 2 feet vertically that way. Then measure how far your band should rise vertically from where it connects to the adapter (from the wall outlet adapter) and now you know how far you can walk around the room. I also have to say that my strips only had to rise 3 feet because my power supply is on the table. My room is pretty wide and a 32ft chain covers half of it, so I suspect most people will definitely need 32ft LEDs anyway. Then use tape to turn on the lights and check how they look before finalizing their position and using glue. Or just use strips of tape thin enough (0.5 inch) not to block the LEDs and leave it as is if you like. ==Overview== But as for actually using the lights, they are perfect with a small controller. which you can use to manage settings. I can easily use them in my bed or at my desk after waking up. For reference, when I'm lying in my chair/bed, the light is 5 feet above my head and surrounds all but one long side of the 9' x 14' area I'm in. Now I no longer blind myself at night with my regular lightbulb/lamp. more, and the 4 brightness settings are versatile for the few uses I need. When I'm sleeping I hardly notice the lowest level of the red light, so several times I forgot to turn it off. Conversely, max brightness is very useful when I really need light at night (i.e. I don't think I've used my traditional ceiling lights with a light switch since I bought them, except when I need max brightness for serious work/cleaning) . . Most importantly when using my monitor at night I set up the lights about 5ft above and 1ft behind my monitor and they work great: they reduce eye strain as my monitor no longer flares in the dark. room when my lamp is off, but they don't direct or reflect anything (I have the entire length on the other side of my room, which also reaches my monitor). And I'm not sure if the colors have different brightness settings or if the colors change the perception of brightness, but red really is the darkest, so it's perfect for creating a "cinema" effect. If you then switch to any "light" color, you get a lot more visibility, despite not pressing the brightness buttons. So colors set different moods in a very functional way to refine functional purposes (e.g. with Brightness1 red to wake up and Brightness4 white to get up). 16 colors (red/orange/yellow, green<------>blue/purple and white) with 4 brightness settings. There are other buttons but I never use them as they are probably better suited for festivals/parties or something like that. But they have decent functionality. There is a button to fade or switch between 3 or 7 colors and a fast/slow action button that works like a volume button except you can change the speed of the color fade/color transition. There's sound activation, but it takes some experimentation (should come very close to one thing), but I think it leaves room for cool possibilities (doubt I'll ever use it myself, as I have a low tolerance for flashing lights). I also see timer-like buttons which I assume should have been disabled but I keep forgetting to check. Four stars because I'm still very concerned about how long they will last in terms of overall lighting and adhesion. Nothing against this company; just a general take on a Chinese product. However, I have found that adhesion is not an issue as these lights are so light/thin that using thin strips of tape (0.5" max so as not to cover any actual LEDs on the strip) will hold them just perfectly.