I bought every LED Diffuser channel on Amazon to find the best one. Mission Accomplished.
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- Опубликовано: 25 фев 2022
- What makes one LED Diffuser channel better than another? Color, thickness, depth, and mounting solutions are ALL important and in my testing there were two CLEAR winners.
Best LED Density (60 LEDs/m): amzn.to/3Ze2P3U
Best Overall Diffuser (Shallow Aluminum + Tented Diffuser): amzn.to/3C7p2VP
Most "Spotless" Diffuser (Deep Aluminum + Spotless Cover): amzn.to/3hhhJRB
Other LED Diffuser Channels Tested:
Deep Black/Gray: amzn.to/3tdHSGD
Deep Black/Spotless: amzn.to/3vjoQkJ
Deep Black/Flat: amzn.to/3siRoZM
Shallow Aluminum/Flat: amzn.to/3Iqg9Jc
Deep Aluminum/Flat: amzn.to/3Ioxu5f
45 Degree Aluminum/Curved: amzn.to/3M0TKV1
45 Degree Aluminum/Flat: amzn.to/3sn1aKp
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man... no one puts in the amount of work, and the engineering/scientific approach like you do. You've definitely found your voice when it comes to accurate reviews. Thanks so much for keeping the quality of these reviews so high!!
agreed 👍
You obviously have never been to Project Farm's channel
@@davidamoritz I watch project farm all the time.
@@FrankGraffagnino nerd
definitely. you could also ask your electrician. but definitely.
The fact that he pays for everything out of his own pocket and does not have sponsored reviews wins my vote. Great to have a source for unbiased and honest reviews!
he’s an affiliate so he makes bank off the purchases in the links
@@mt7810 True, but that doesn't mean his reviews are biased or dishonest. The Amazon purchase price is the same to a buyer whether they find the product their own or use one of his affiliate links. When someone clicks and completes a purchase via one of his links he receives a commission. Amazon commissions range from 1% to 20% depending on the product category.
I think I just sprained my brain trying to absorb all that info. But, you've given us tons of information and your recommendations. I would have used trial-and-error and you've eliminated that. Thanks again for the thorough work.
Hah agreed. Think I'll just write down the recommendations at then end for future reference.
Don't bother to write anything down, show your support by just clicking his link.
ORRRR, you can just add his video on your favorites link (like I did) LOL
Wait a Hawkeye fan can eat corn and learn. Iowans are evolving. I’m scared. But agree amazing content
@@DRacer90 or do both, use his link and save this video for reference when it’s time to build your lights.
Lighting designer here. A little tip... if you get the deep channel and line the back side (not the actual diffusion side) with slightly wrinkled aluminum foil, it will assist with diffusion and will improve light intensity. But it does take some work.
Meat hammer on carpet or cushion, softly, to quickly "dimple" the foil.
What about metal tape? like they use on HVAC. Reflective enough? How significant would it help vs just bare aluminum, which is somewhat reflective
@@RealJerb The metal tape will help improve the brightness but not the diffusion. You want the wrinkles to help scatter the light more. Alternatively, mask off the outside surfaces and spray the inside of the channel with matte white spray paint so you can keep a dark exterior with an efficient interior reflective surface. Matte paint will scatter the light more than glossy paint.
@@pancake8133 Perfect!!! Great guidence and experience! Thanks!
@@pancake8133 Is it necessary for function to keep a dark exterior or is that just for aesthetics?
And we are talking for use without a diffuser correct?
It's just such a relief to not having to buy a product and being worried about it being the right choice for the job. Comparing the most used items within a genre and comparing them the way you do is simply brilliant. I thank you, for me not having to waste time.
And MONEY!!!
At last a comprehensive breakdown on such an important yet usually overlooked issue. Excellent work. Much appreciated.
I needed this so much right now. No retail shop really sells these so such a risk buying online without any good information. Thanks!
What a great video man! Thanks for all that info!
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Fantastic video!! Ended up buying several different types a few months back and settled on the deep aluminium + spotless cover as well. They're indoors and I've had no issues 👍
I can't thank you enough for posting this. It is incredibly well made and saved me a lot of time and money!
These types of videos are best when I have to pause it to keep up, instead of twiddling my thumbs waiting for someone to get to the point. The pacing of this video is fantastic: quick, to the point. Subscribed right away. Keep it up!
Just stumbled across your channel. You answered a question that had been burning in the back of my mind for Months now! Ive been too scared to do exactly what you just did in this review for me. God bless you kind sir... A token of my gratitude for the time & money you just saved me. 😁
Thanks, your videos are so thorough and unbiased. Your teaching skills definitely come through in your videos as you impart heaps of info in a really easy format to watch. Really appreciate the effort and time this must take.
YES!
fully agree :)
Oh my, this is probably the best thought-through video on this topic out there! It's pure genius! Thank you!
Your videos are so good. I've watched only 2 of them and I feel like I know almost everything I need to know about LED strips.
You killed this. Thanks for putting in the work and sharing with the rest of us!
Thank you and keep up the incredible work. I found your channel a couple years ago when looking for the permanent holiday led setups. I just watched your golf simulator video and was blown away.
Thanks Adam! I was/am pretty proud of the golf sim video. It’s a shame more people didn’t watch it. lol 😭
i enjoyed every single second of this video. this is a dream come true for someone who cares about lighting like I do. thank you SO much
Thanks for The Hook Up on LED lighting installation options. This has answered a lot of questions I've had. Keep up the good work, much appreciated!
This and your LED strip video together are outrageously helpful. Thanks dude.
I really appreciate this video. I spent hours doing research and fretting about which aluminum channel to buy... this was such an incredible help. I went with the U108 and am super happy with the result.
this is amazing, thank you for the work and awesome that you added tiny pictures to the descriptions, it's way easier to follow!
You put so much amount of work into this video. Thank you very much.
Really useful to see the brightness comparison along with the effectiveness at hiding individual spots
my mind is spinning .. very timely for me .. thanks for your great efforts, timely, relevant, informative, …
The amount of detail you put into your testing is the type of information I enjoy. Subbed
The most fantastic video I have ever seen in my life. Bravo.
Straight forward. right to the point. side by side examples and every kind of test that i would have personally wanted performed,. amazing video! keep it up.
This is exactly the kind of information I need! Thanks for the work you put in for this.
Thank you so much for making this video. I'm doing RUclips's most in-depth Home Theater build at the moment and I literally just released a video of me scrapping 60 LED backlit tv's just to get the back light diffuses as well as the acrylic diffusion layers out of to use in my audio diffuses, which I also want to have LED lights running around the perimeter of. I didn't even know these things existed. So you have done the hard work if I choose to go this route. Appreciate it 🙂👍
BTW I probably will go this route now. Looks way easier than sticking a single diffuser over each LED 😅
Excellent videos. I feel so much better and educated in installing these lights! Thank you for making these videos.
Excellent video, and its nice to see some real science and data in this!! Great work, and thank you for handling all the "leg work" on this research for us!
Ahhh! Where was this a year ago? Thanks for doing this. I bought and returned a few because I couldn’t find the right ones. I ended up with some decent ones that I’m happy enough with. I hope,this helps so many others.
Never thought I'd find a video for exactly what I needed, great breakdown!
Simply amazing.
Your effort and time are much appreciated. Subscribed!
Yet another extremely thorough and generally great video!
Exactly the info and demo I needed. Thanks for creating this. Will definitely use your referral links if/when I go ahead with my project.
Thank you very much for the time, effort & cost required to do this breakdown! It is very much appreciated sir
Thanks for doing all this work! Greatly appreciated.
This was really interesting! It would be interesting to see comparisons against the ones from Aliexpress as there are dozens of other designs there, including shallow channels with extra thick covers, which would appear to get you better diffusion in a much shallower channel. They also have ones that fire the LED strip sideways, having it bounce off the side of the channel before hitting the cover, to further diffuse the light and allow lower density strips to be used. They also sell ones that are entirely white plastic which presumably would reflect even more light than the aluminium ones.
Thicker diffuser = less light
I've got an all-silicon diffuser (extruded silicon). These types do a "OK" job in diffusing, and you can get really creative with them, when it comes to shape.
Thanks for this, I am planning a home bar and will be installing 8 strips, 32" long, one per shelf, using the angle bracket to light up the bottles. I was fairly sure I wanted a denser diffuser, but now I know I also want the curved diffuser and at least the 60 light density.
Thank you Robert. Always great stuff.
Wow, that's what I call an awesome comparison! Great work, keep on going!
Answered every single question I had incredible video and presentation!
I had been wanting to see this exact series of tests, so thanks!!
This is a stellar analysis. You are approaching Project Farm quality!
This is truly a Masterclass👏👏. Thank you Sir
Wow nice timing, for the past 2 weeks I've been searching for good diffusion channels with good thermals as well. Appreciate the reporting :)
Thank you for doing doing this. Trying to figure this out through Amazon reviews and pics was pretty much impossible.
man this is an excellent study !!
This is exactly what I needed a week ago installing my kitchen LED's.
For the next project :D
When I installed LED channels on my house I was not chasing a perfectly diffused look, but I was looking for a channel that had room to run at least a 14awg power bus wire for injections. I ended up with 15mm high by 18mm wide channels that had room for the wire and do a decent job of diffusing my 30/m LED's. The other thing to note is the viewing distance, outside from a couple of houses away they look fully diffused.
This was really well done and comprehensive, thank you!
Best video ever on this subject. Thank you.
I was thinking the same thing 1 week ago and now I found this. Amazing.
Wow - Great work !
I didn't even know anything about led diffusers until now.
Thanks...
This is exactly what I want from a comparison review video, fantastic job
Well done for the effort put into this review. Saved many other people much head scratching and agonising
Love these succinct, info-packed comparisons!
I didn't even know I needed this video BUT WE ALL DO!! Saving this for purchase day!
Super thorough and answered all my questions! Thank you! And I'm happy to use your affiliate links.
OMG, thats exactly the information I needed. Thank you
your efforts are sooooo appreciated thank you !😅
ive been waiting for a video like this for so long....THANK YOU!
Just the type of video I was hoping to find. Thanks dude.
Not sure about Amazon, but here in China there are a lot more options than just these too. PC diffuser comes in various colors and thickness qualities. For example, opal, milky, frosted.… 0.8mm, 1mm and 1.2mm thickness. And the bare aluminum profile isn't bare, it's anodized. Usually it's anodized silver although there are other anodization processes too. Great job actually trying all these out. I never had the time to do that. Appreciate your work on this. I was surprised about the "tent" diffuser
amazing coverage...thank you for making this video!
thank you so much! the previous tenant of out flat left an ugly LED Strip around the biggest room. My bf didnt want to have the hassle and we both had no knoledge about LEDs before this, but i knida knew that they are expensive and wanted to reuse the thing. Thanks to you i understood what i need to get and mount in order to reuse the thing and have a nice looking living room wall :)
Great Video as always rob.. and timely for me too with a new external WLED project on the drawing board..
This is such a good and informative video, many thanks for spending time and effort to help people choose correctly.
Very useful. Been searching for a video like this for a couple of months now. 👍🏾
Cool! Couple months late for my 150 meters of LEDs, but I'm happy with the brightness of the shallow channels.
Wow, this is so helpful!! Thank you so much!
Great video, Short to the point and provides enough detail!
Thanks for making this. Very informative and will be referenced.
Yooo this was next level. Thanks for all your hard work. Seriously!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻
Great work, and thank you for providing such a detailed video.
This was so incredibly helpful, have been trying to figure out channels to diffuse led strips in our skoolie build and this answered all my questions and helped me find exactly what we needed! Thank you!
Wow, thanks for making this!
great info. after already installing about 50 meters of LED in various channels and forms, I appearantly made no "violations" to your advice haha. the rule of thumb distance LED = distance diffuser is a good one to remember! thanks
Soo glad I bought the 60LED's/mtr! Very helpful vid thankyou.
As always, a good video from you my friend, just the one I was expecting to be done.
Regards from Mexico
Appreciate all your work on this!
Your Reviews are amazing, people don't need to go elsewhere
I needed to span a 1.5 metre gap between 2 kitchen cabinets so I chose the 45 degree angle channel and made a small dowel to slot into the triangular hole to join 2 pieces. That and offsetting the diffuser made a perfect joint. Can’t to pull ups on it but hey! It works.
This is EXACTLY what I was looking for, thank you!
RUclips Review Gold Award for this video!
This is a very high quality video. Thank you.
Great video as always!!! Love all the comparisons!
Thanks Chris!
This saves me a lot of time and probably dimes, cheers man!
I just found your channel ... I wish I would have found it sooner, your videos and info are awesome and much appreciated!
As always, great job. Thank you for taking the time, effort and $$$ to compare these options.
As it was not mentioned, I do have one question though, do you have any insight as to how the same comparison might look (especially among the same products) with the LEDs mounted on the sidewall as opposed to mounting them on the backwall (i.e. not directly facing the diffusor). I assume this would resolve much of the hotspot problem accross the board, but likely at a cost of losing brightness. Nevertheless, it would be nice to know if the loss of brightness is more or less as the next thicker diffusor.
i appreciate the work you've put in this review
I love your vedio. It is perfect for a new man to learn some knowledge about the LED strips.
This video should be *everywhere*
Hi sir thank you for your very informative video. much appreciated god bless.
Great review. Cudi out Bendable smokey grey covers. They come with a much more diffused look. Very similar to the white. But We've used the smoke covers a lot over the white diffused, as they blend in the best on home exteriors. Often times looks like a small shadow on just under the flashing or roof tiles...
So grateful for your unbiased content. I’m using 60 per, shallow black with smoke covers. They completely disappear during the day which is my main concern. I hope this continues to evolve. Would like to try those tent covers at some point, but the white will still be an issue. Overall I love my leds on the house and I’m grateful to you, Dr. Zzzs, Quindor and of course Aircookie for paving the way!
Thanking someone for not lying about led strip lighting?
We truly live in the darkest timeline
Could you please share the channel, you used. I share same concern "They completely disappear during the day which is my main concern"
Man, this video is awesome! Thank you so much!
Very Detailed and Intuitive comparison and video.
Very Nice Job 👍🏻