Hey guys this is Martin again from SIRS-Electronics.
And today I want to talk to you about what makes an LED strip a high quality strip.
There are a lot of different strips on the market.
You know you can find them on eBay on the web and they are everywhere.
And there all sort of prizes. Even qualities and varieties of strips.
But the question still remains.
What makes a strip a high quality strip?
Is not the color of the PCB board.
Is not the color of the actual LED.
It is not really how bright it is, although that is an contributor factor.
But the main thing that makes a strip a high quality strip is actually.
The efficiency the quality of the components that are use.
For example we carry two types of strips.
We have the high quality RGB 5050 strip in both dual and single density.
And then we also have the low cost RGB 5050 dual and single density.
Both of these models are both available in water proof and non-water proof versions.
But today I am going to be using a single density RGB 5050 high quality and a low cost
just to compare.
Right away you'll notice that they are both different colors.
So the high quality is like this copper natural color.
And the low cost you'll see it's a white color.
Like I said the color does not define the strip whether is a good quality or a bad quality.
But also what you could tell fairly easily.
Is that this one kind of looks a little bit flimsy it is a little bit crumple up.
As opposed to this one.
Which is more rigid and more straight.
The reason for that is the thickness of the PCB board and how thick the copper is.
The more copper you have the more current can flow easier.
Therefore making the strip more efficient causing less resistance.
Is kind like having a water pipe the thicker the pipe the easier the water flows and then
more efficient the pipe becomes.
That is pretty much what is going on here.
So that is the main difference here from the low cost and the high quality strip.
And you will notice that a lot of different strips that you may find.
The PCB board may not be as thick as it should be causing it to be less efficient.
So the high quality strip this one right here has about 2 millimeters of thickness on the
PCB board.
As opposed to this one which is right under a millimeter.
So that is a big contributor factor right there.
The other thing is the pureness of the copper used in the PCB board is what makes it more
efficient as well.
So the more pure the copper, the more efficient it will be so the less resistance it will
cause.
The next contributor factor is the quality of the LED chips.
They may look the same they are both 5050 RGB LED chips but it all depends.
On the phosphor used and the quality of the component.
So that also varies a lot.
So like I said the color doesn't say anything.
The color of the LED doesn't say anything when it is lighting up.
And the brightness does indicate to a certain extent whether is high quality or not but
it is not definitive.
So that is pretty much the main differences here.
Like I said this is not a technical video.
I am not going to be showing you any specs.
I already have a video up that shows you a different specs of the strips running in real time
So you can check that one up if you want to see the actual specs.
But here I was just trying to let you guys know the different key features that make
the strip either high quality or not.
So that is pretty much all that I wanted to share with you guys.
I hope you all enjoyed this video.
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