This is a strip of LEDs
okay so coming in from I lux this is a coil of RGB art while RGB W
these are smart LED strip lights and there it is in German for our German
fans these are waterproof LEDs that you can put around the place to make your
home or your shelving or something like that seem a little more decorative it
operates between 40 degrees and minus 25 degrees it's dim bar dimmer level them
dimmable I'll be the one enough on the side here we have some specifications
I'll close that up so you can get all of your information the Germans on one side
so yep it's IP 65 rated so you can't put them outside life expectancy is about
50,000 ours there's 5 meters worth in here 300 units and the whole package
retail for a by 2012 things $23.99 on amazon there was another one that was it
looked very similar for $25.99 i will distinguish whichever one this is I'm
put a link down below for you to follow so on the back here we have stuff around
this side we have some features up to 50 lumps can be managed at the same time
supports synchronous control via up under mood control instant charge for
dynamic modes multiple arms together and new hub or gateway required easy use ok
so I'm to be honest I'm a little confused as to how this works I figured
you might be able to chop these into bits but then how do you connect them up
to the means to be able to run them or to the run off battery I guess we'll
find out whenever we go on and have a look up see what is all connected so on
the top here we have a happy thing which is our warranty so you get an extra free
warranty coverage of 6 months leave a review on Amazon
join our super user program to be rewarded with freebies and goodies I've
brilliant is outside and if you're not happy contact them here further on in we
have a user guide as to how to use these things you can't cut them so
installation that's in German step 1 prepare the surface where you would like
the tip to tip the LED strip remove the protective sheet from the adhesive tip
the strip lights to avoid heavy folding and twisting connect the strip lights
and the connection box make sure the polarities are correct and hook it up
and away you go so you must need some kind of control box for each length that
you end up using and then there's an app as well the eye locks mesh app for quick
guide okay plug pretty heavy-duty
another plug here with a connector so this is a input 100 to 240 volt 50 to 60
Hertz I put 12 volts 3 amps for indoor use only
don't be sticking this outside this is the connection point
you obviously plug that into the connector we saw earlier there's some
screws on the edges here to attach this to a wall and that feels like they come
apart quite easily but maybe it maybe it doesn't it doesn't say whether this is
waterproof or not but I imagine it probably isn't because that's exposed
and then that's where you plug in your LEDs so the LEDs arrive on a little coil
a fairly flimsy coil but I guess you're only gonna use it once or doesn't matter
how high good it is one end we have this that plugs in there
to that and then we have the LEDs and we have the areas that you can chop so you
try and get our macrovision working on here there we have looks like an LED
there and a resistor LED resistor and that's all it is along here so there's a
just a strip of LEDs and then each of those is around about about four inches
maybe some gentlemen would say six inches possibly and then we have 3m tip
on the back that we pull away and we adhere to something so let's let's plug
in
there we go and that's our LEDs setup looks fairly nice there we are under the
power of daylight there's a window just beside us so it does look kind of blue
and obviously we're showing the side of the box here it can glue red yellow
green and well that must be the blue again so we'll grab the app the app
looks to have it's got 1,000 downloads a reading of 2.3 out of 5 so far after 27
reviews and give your light intelligence there's been a few updates to it
these lights are great to set up and it's very easy tried on three phones and
had no problems I have the LGV 30 and I lux cannot find my LED strip here
okay so we'll open her up and have a look
we turn on Bluetooth
okay reset low we've turned the LEDs off because I'm gonna read this Sam I've
noticed this precaution unroll the LED light strip before usage due to possible
damage because of overheating yeah that wasn't a good idea of me to do that
please check product carefully before installation ensure power is off before
installation right okay so okay so looking at this we have find the I lux
lamp we didn't have to do anything with that I was making it overly complicated
for myself looking for remote controls and things that it was depicting here
it's adding the I luck slump so there must be bluetooth activated in this
right now perhaps it's in this main unit but it appears to be adding it
okay so that means we've got it in and I'm working we can tap that no and it'll
flash so we know which one we're dealing with I guess you can also edit it change
the name of the particular length so if you're putting this all the way around
your garden or something like that you can top the flash so you know which
element you're dealing with or you can rename the strip to something a bit
easier for you to find so we'll add that um now we have the choose us as having
all of the lumps and there are the LEDs we can turn them off in the background
and back on again and then we can have a play with them the brightness we can go
to the settings here we can add a memory function to it the very function is not
turning on the wall switch brightness okay and then we can set a scene under
the scene long press to set for some reason I um drop lumps so whenever you
got a bunch together you can have them doing different things glowing and you
can also have them reacting to music or following the microphone which is pretty
handy actually so depending on what kind of music you are playing it can pop
along with it that's actually kind of a funky idea and then well obviously
that's for putting in some kind of mesh included device so it it all seems to be
a fairly I'll turn them off just for the meantime so they don't melt it all seems
to be a fairly nice idea and I'm relatively cheap too that's five meters
the waterproof ones here we have our twenty five points and then twenty three
points for the non waterproofed ones so if you're looking to stick these around
your garden obviously this part here would be a problem but then you attach
them together whenever you come to the end of their of the rule you can attach
that to another rule which is really quite a funky idea
chopping this down into say 5 1 meter lengths would be a bit of a pian because
then you'd need five of these I believe if you wanted them around different
things they are putting them around the inside of a of a cabinet or something
like that as I had originally thought I have a blu-ray collection and I could
put these around the inside of the blu-ray collection but that might not
work the way they are I'd have to chop them up which means I'll need this kind
of caper for each and every one of them but if you're not dedicated to doing it
you'll probably find a way and you must be able to pick these up online and then
it all links into the application and you can have them buzzing away
rhythmically to the signed which is kind of nice so I know my wife is gonna get a
bit of a kick out of these and so I'll go and give them to her see what she
does with them and we'll update tech addicts dot uk' at some point in the
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