Review on 🎄 Lepro 12V LED Strip Light, Flexible, Waterproof, SMD 2835, 16.4ft Tape Light for Christmas, Home, Kitchen and More, Daylight White – Power Adapter Excluded by Ken Hamdan

I bought these bulbs to replace an old fluorescent light bulb in my pantry that was on a light switch. I'm not an electrician and I don't know how to do anything by hand but for some reason I wanted to do it myself and found enough information on the internet to give me confidence. Our pantry has 4 L-shaped shelves. I cut a 16ft 4" piece of LED bulbs into 9 sections, each just under 22" long when counted (one for each ledge of the shelf plus one along the top of the door). I used this transformer (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DKSI0S8?redirect=true&ref_=cm_cr_ryp_prd_ttl_sol_3) you need to reduce your house current to 12v for these led bulbs or you blow you from. Unplugged the transformer, disconnected the blue and brown wires and removed enough to connect to the wires from the wall where the old light was (blue to white, brown to black). To work with those live wires. I simply used double sided tape to stick the transformer box to the wall. Then I started connecting the LED strips, starting at the top of the door and ending under the top shelf and moving across and down (serpentine). I have used these 3 foot connectors (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008KPW2IK?redirect=t rue&ref_=cm_cr_ryp_prd_ttl_sol_4) to get from one shelf to the next, as well as similar 6 inch connectors , to reach the corner of each L-shaped shelf. The hardest part was using a razor blade to peel off the waterproof coating on the LED strip to reveal each connector on the cut end of the LED strip (each side of the LED strip x 9 strips!). This is the only way they can be inserted into the slots. And they are delicate! I often thought I had a bad connector only to keep trying to clean the ends until I had a good connection. Now for the funnest part of this project: I used this magnetic switch (http://www.amazon.com). /gp/product/B008KPW2IK?redirect=true&ref_=cm_cr_ryp_prd_ttl_sol_4) to turn the light on when the pantry door opens and off when the door closes. To connect this I cut the wire between the transformer box and the LED strip. I separated the red and black wires and separated them with strips to prepare them for connection. I just reconnected the red wires (you just have to fiddle with the black wire so if you can cut the cable without cutting the red wires even better but I don't know how you would do that). Actually polarity doesn't matter with this switch because it's all about breaking the circuit, so you can swap what I just said about red and black and it still works. In any case I had the cut ends of the black wire. The black wire coming from the side of the transformer was connected to the COM terminal of the magnetic switch, and the black wire from the side of the LED was connected to the NC terminal of the magnetic switch. . At first this really annoyed me because my first switch was bad and I didn't realize it right away. Went back to Revain, got a replacement. Two days later I completed the project with a new function switch. The wired side of the magnetic switch mounts to the top of the door frame while the other side mounts to the door itself. When the door is opened and the two parts are then separated, the switch is activated and the light comes on. The finished product looks good and works well. There is plenty of bright light in the pantry, and the light is no longer accidentally left on all day.