Review of LEDwholesalers 16.4 Feet 300xSMD3528 LED Flexible Strip

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I am an owner of a lighting and lamp shop. I purchased many reels of LED strip to do a small test. Everyone knows that LED will be the next generation of the lighting but LED is more complicate than the halogen light. So people sometimes feel difficult to find out the right LEDs, especially online. Home Depot carries all kinds of LED lamp but none of the LED strip. So I hope my review will be helpful for all of you on Amazon.

The strips I compared are the most basic products: cool white and warm white, waterproof and non-waterproof. All the LED strips came in different quality and brightness. I am satisfied with five of the strips. These five strip have high lumen, good color and 3M tape is good. So I recommend them:

HitLights LED Flexible Lighting Strip Cool White or Bright White, 5 Meter or 16 Ft, 3528 Type, 300 SMD, 24 Watt

This cool white LED has the highest brightness and the color is about 6000K which will be very closed to the tube. I think this one should be enough for most of the people. Also, the best part is the price is very reasonable and even cheaper than some low quality strip. So I highly recommend this one.

16.4 Feet 300 SMD LED Flexible Strip with Waterproof Sleeve,12 Volt Clear White LED Ribbon 5 Meter Reel,3528CW By CBconept

This strip have a good rubber sleeve protect the strip and the color is around 6000K too. But since it doesn't have the 3M tape. So be careful. If you really need the waterproof cool white strip, this is your option.

5 Meter Reel Warm White 3100k Flexible LED Ribbon 300 Leds 16 Ft by LEDwholesalers, 2026ww-31k

This strip have a neutral color, around 3000K to 3500K which is between cool white and warm white. The color is special and I believe some one will need that. The 3M tape is great and stick the strip really well.

HitLights LED Flexible Lighting Strip Warm White, 5 Meter or 16 Ft, 3528 Type, 300 SMD, 24 Watt

This one have a better price and warmer color. It is from hitlights so the quality is the same as the first one I just mentioned before.

HitLights Waterproof LED Flexible Warm White Lighting Strip, 3528 Type, 300 LED, 5 Meter or 16 Ft, 24 Watt, 12 Volt

This is the only warm white LED strip I found on Amazon. The quality is good and the LED is bright. Good choice for the people who need warm white LED strip in outdoor use.

Finally, I realized that hitlights and led wholesaler are the top two quality on Amazon. I also found both of them have more LED products in other vendors. In other word, they are more professional in LED. Obviously, led wholesaler has even more products but higher price while hitlights only has the popular led products and the price is more reasonable. I will say both of them are good LED sellers.

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These are not 5050 LEDs the ream says "P/N: 3528 Waterproof" So I am not sure why the product description includes 5050 tri chips.

-Since my review, the company fulfilling the order refunded my money and apologized for the misunderstanding. But I have yet to see the description change to match the product I received, otherwise if they where 5050 LED's I would purchase more at the $20 price point.

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These used to be really great LED lights. I've ordered 7-8 reels of these in the past and needed some more for a boat lighting project. Here's why these are so bad.

1. The 'new design' of these lights makes installing them a nightmare. The 3m adhesive backing on these stick better to the wax paper backing than the 'waterproof sleve'. You'll need a razor blade and quite a bit of patience to separate the backing on these.

2. Waterproof?!? I think not. This design has the lights in a silicon enclosure and the waterproofing is done by loosely fitting caps. there is nothing with the kit to actually make a watertight seal so I'm very skeptical about the survivability of these lights.

3. The price. Not only are these lower quality than the old version, they also run about 3 4 bucks more a reel.

Needless to say, I'm very unhappy with the quality of these and I won't be buying them again.

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To reiterate, these are 3528 LEDs, not 5050 LEDs. As such, if you order these, the light output you will get is about 3 times less light than you want/need. I figured I would give this item a chance, as its been awhile since MG left his review, but apparently, they have yet to correct the listing for this item, to date. This listing is the perfect example of bad business practices.

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I've used many kinds of LED ribbon lights. I make my own lights for Photography. These are the best. ;-)