Hi, Paul with Diode Dynamics talking about our line of HD halos and strips. Now if you're not
familiar with these products they're designed to be the brightest physically possible halos
and strips on the market and they're made right here in St. Louis Missouri. They have a couple of
other great features as well the first one is our multifunction dimming, so no matter which
color you choose they all have a high and low brightness level per day or night time use and
they all have some sort of turn signal or brake function where they get even brighter but one of
my favorite features is the fact that we can cut them to any length we need just using pair of side
cutting snips, let's take a look at that now. So we're going to start by turning everything off you
definitely don't want to do this when they're turned on but then let's say where you can cut
our blue strip, so with these strips, it's pretty straightforward we were gonna keep the side that
has the wire going into it then we're just going to trim off from the far side as much as we need
to. Now the rule of thumb is we can cut up to 20% of the strip off without changing the driver power
level, if we cut any more than that we might overpower the LEDs so this is a 9-inch strip
20% we can cut about 2 inches off. Now you can cut virtually anywhere you want to. Depending on where
you cut if you land between an LED or on top of it you might have a little bit more dead area but
these are high-density LEDs in our HD lineup so we can really cut it anywhere you don't need to
follow the marks on the back just take your side snips these are great because you get a nice clean
cut and simply snip it off just like that. We can try powering this up again you'll see sliding up
all the way to that length then go ahead and just snip it a little bit more see how that looks if
you didn't get quite enough. I'll just snip it again you can see how easy that is with our strips
and light that up and see it's till the light goes all the way to the end unlike other products which
you might lose more LEDs these are going to light up all the way to the point where you cut it. So
that's the strip's what about the halos well again we're going to switch these off for the halos it's
the same concept but for these you're gonna want to determine first of all how much you want to cut
then where you want your wire to be positions you might have seen some halos that you can cut
and you have to cut at the connection point for the wires and come up from that's not the case
here. So if we have a design for example where we want they hit the wire to be on the ends we
can cut right there cut some section off and have our wire coming out the side if we want the wire
coming out of the bottom and we just want maybe half of a ring we can cut it right there if we
choose to instead. So again you can cut at two points anywhere you want but be aware of where
that's gonna leave your wire. So in this case same thing the circumference of the halo is the 140
millimeters we can cut about 20%, so in this case about, 28-30 millimeters is the most we can cut
off without changing drivers and we'll get to that in a minute. I'm just gonna cut off maybe from
here to here you know I don't have too much of a plan going in but again snip just about anywhere
on here you can see how easy that is I now have a halo with a little section missing and you'd
think that it wouldn't work like that, but again no problem and even our amber turn signal function
on this we can connect that up and see that it works just fine all the way around. If we need
to we can turn it off cut off a little bit more now don't pick up scissors when you go to do this
you want to use a pair of side cutters, that's the only thing that'll give you a nice clean cut,
but you don't want to file it down or anything if you do that you might risk bridging the electrical
trace it together just stick with the snips and that's all you need to do. Again power that up
and see that we're still lighting it up no problem with that area missing right there. So like I said
you can cut up to 20% off without changing the driver power level, if you need to draw it change
the driver power no problem we offer additional drivers on our website at a small charge so that
you can cut down as much as you might need. If you have a situation where you need to go ahead
and cut off almost this whole ring you can do that swap out the driver power level to a lower
power light it up and you're back in business with your totally custom and unique shape in no time.
If this is still a little scary to you and you want to confirm or if you need more information
feel free to shoot us an email or contact us at Diodedynamics.com, thanks for watching you.