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Review on πŸŽ„ XUNATA 16.4ft LED Flexible Light Strip - Waterproof IP67, Green - DIY Christmas Home Kitchen Indoor Party Decoration by James Bull

Revainrating 1 out of 5

Strip polarity is wrong. Polarity is important, you must ensure it is correct!

I know very well where to cut LED strips and how to solder them. I have made small 3 led strips from different manufacturers that work great. I wanted to make some 30 led strips out of this 5m strip. I only managed to get two strips of 30 LEDs, one from each end of the factory wiring. I just cut along the cut line or copper strips if you'd like. I connect + to + to polarity. A small homemade 30 led strip works fine when connected to a 30 led strip via the factory connector so I know it's properly soldered and connected. And to make matters worse, they sent me 300 RGB LEDs instead of the 600 white LEDs I ordered. I sent them back and waited for 600 white LEDs and if they were white then they were nowhere near white, they were ice blue there. I ended up giving up white and going with red. Now that they're cut I can't even send them back. Right after I wrote my first part of this review, I dropped all logic and reversed polarity. That was the problem, the whole lane was mislabeled. Less than a minute after that, people wrote to me and said that they are not always tagged correctly. Pretty big mistake for something that should have the correct polarity. As you can see in the photo, the factory placed the RED wire on the negative side and the BLACK wire on the positive side. After cutting off the ends of the original wiring, I connected them in the usual RED with "+" so my own shorter pieces wouldn't work. I hope long lasting quality is better than production and quality control.

Pros
  • Very good price
Cons
  • Frequency