This is how I destroyed my really cool lights I put around a desk 😢... Trust me don't do it 😑 instead where you need to bend the lights leave them not glued in that place and make a small curve so you would not bend the cable ,I'm bad at explaining but if you look for Goove lights you might find their manual which explains it. Also I do truly recommend getting Rgb lights which are covered by this thick rubber you will not break those and they are easy to install even better than those without because u don't have to worry about breaking them all the time 🙂
@@wiktoriagwozdowska5484ok so which company is this? I also want to get the chasing lights version as well. My main thing is I want to be able to sync them together for music via the app so all of the lights everywhere are playing in the same color. Since I’ve grouped my lights they start playing different colors on their own now when on voice activated but it shouldn’t rely on both Bluetooth units it should only be one damnit lol bc they’re synced.
Exactly. Dude making the vid is a fool, just listen to him say "this is how you fold rgb"... No, you are folding an led strip... He should.cut it and get the 90 degree connector.
Protect this dude at all costs Also - the second I found this out with my Govee lights, i kicked the wall and made a hole. Currently patching the wall.
My nanoleaf 4d comes with some corner things that really helps this process and eliminates the risk of cutting the electricity to the rest of the band. Really useful plastic
How to "properly" fold your LED strip is you *don't* This is a neat ck that works but can risk destroying the internal copper traces. The **proper** way to do this is to cut the strip and use either a corner joiner or scratch away some of the top coating, apply flux, and solder short jumper cables that do the bending instead, hopefully with some strain relief or secured to the desk
Properly you need to install it on an aluminium profile for cooling and sticky-ness, also, bending the strip puts a lot of mechanical and electrical stress in the bending point, so expect it to fall of soon and get 30-50% less bright.
Thank you so much man! I just installed my first led lights, I had them for a while but never got the chance to install them. This video helped me so much! I was wondering how to fold them properly. Thank you so much. 👊
Umm, really risking breaking the RGB by doing this but if it works it works. The proper way is to cut the strip, place it how you want and solder on the wires again to bridge the cuts, you can cover that up with tape. They also make really easy 90° joints you can plug the cut ends into if you're less electrically inclined. You can also just leave more room and not try to have such a tight bend, crimping it like that risks damaging a diod or resistor.
Important to note he's in the middle between the LEDs. The closer to the bulb the higher the risk of causing separation of the bulb from the circuit. Not fun.
They make 90* corner crimps for this purpose. It requires one cut and you’re basically done, they don’t cost much either. Source, I’m an electrician and do these often.
I cut my strips to the right length and then solder small cables onto each connecting point so that the cable can bend without having to stick to itself.
@@driggsy extremely clean, no over laps, I do electronic repairs as a side job so I'm pretty handy with the soldering iron. Took me probably 30 minutes from unboxing to having the strips cut to length and re-soldered and ready to be put behind my desk
That will be the first failure point and the diodes closest to the fold will be the first to fail. Been there done that. If you don't want them to fail get a corner connector OR space the led strip so there's a cut line approx where you want to go 90degrees then cut the strip and solder wires. Led strip is not as flexible as yall think and the thin copper traces INSIDE the flexible pcb substrate are still fragile.
Actually guys your not supposed to fold rgb really good light manufacturers will give u 90o connectors u can do this but some how wear and tear will eventually make them rip after a year or 2 my last setup I was using the method in this video and the wires went out but now I’m using goove so far so good for the last year or 2 and u can usually change the rgb receiver when they come out with new ones w/o changing the led strips
There is a 90 degree plastic bend with connector for this type of stuff , I would say this is not recommended, you can break the connection doing this !
Yeah ... no, you never want to make a hard folded line in ANY tapelight ... the entire tape is a very thin linear copper tape with which the energy transfers. If you fold it you WILL break that tape, even microscopically. So, if you cant solder, do gentle loops for folds inatead.
next time 💀 seeing this over a year after installing mine, and at that time the other videos i watched weren't as to the point and i was too excited to wait 😂
I cut my strip, then cut the ends at opposite direction 45 degree angled, and peeled back some of the insulation to expose the wires inside. I soldered each wire back together and used a little bit of liquid electrical tape to keep the wires from touching. The liquid tape dried white, which matches the color of the strip. From a distance, it looks like the strip was made with a 90 degree bend.
Fold and snap the copper trace, all RGB cables are made of 10 cm sections, cut where it specifies and solder wires. Then you will get a non hanging/ snapped angle.
Or you just cut it and use 90 degree corner pieces and splice them together looks better and less chance of the circuit printed in it shorting out or breaking eventually
Instead, get a strip with more solder points, cut them, place them at 90 degree to eachother, and just solder tiny wires between the connections for your corner. Cover with some tidily cut tape if you want...
This is not how you probably fold RGB Light. Because its s f****** strip, i cant believe im saying this but when you bend an electric strip the wires instead of the strip bend and once those wires are not indestructible if you bend them too much, well they are going to break and disrupt electricity signal which will break the light. It’s very dependent on how good of s quality those wires and it comes back usual’y to cheap wires on cheap strip light which wont be much resistant to the bending. But no matter what eventually most wires will break in time. To finish up on a good note the real way to make a strip light bend is by not bending it instead use corner connector and actually cut the wires on the right connecting spot and then use the connector to connect the two strip light ends, connectors are on Amazon for 4 bucks and tutorials are on youtube.
please don't do this if it doesn't snap then it gives you problems down the line with weird flickering when is what will happen to him since some of the lines decide to cut off and you only get some colours
I got myself a philips hue lightstrip it can be cut and then you just turn it like that then you put some device that connects the two ends so it works again
no dont do this. They are not designed to be handled like that. You can very, very easily destroy the conducting paths because they are fragile to bending
How about don’t bend it all the way and make it a slight angled where the right angle isn’t making contact with the surface at all. Been doing it like this forever.
Guys don't do this, it's just another view grab for people wondering why theirs ain't working. Once you bend it this way, it ain't bending back after, you're just buying more.. it's under a desk, I don't see a proper way unless you're 15ft tall and want to show off your sick Cable management skills.
Noooo, over time the material stresses and splits leading to cracking and creates a clean split cut of where you folded. This will lead to failure. I had led strips on my panoramic roof. I wandt vene folding the strip but after 10 months of having a slight bend, it just split. Always provide ribon loop, to aliviate any pressur epoints that can lead to failure. If you bought these at marshalls or tj max do what u want but if is 100$ kit dont doo thiss
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Hopefully this helps someone out there!
Note: Don’t completely fold the bend!! You might break the connection
Also only fold on the “cut” line
@@EpicGamer.18 How so?
Just worked for me on my TV made a perfect rectangle along the back 🙌
I just did it wrong sorry it actually works I am leaving a like😄
Helped me thanks 😊
@@Brazilian_sushi Love to hear it!
Of course I see this after I install mine 💀💀💀
Thank God I see this before installing mine 😅
@@Ray_abc had to run it in my face lol 😂
@@elite_ham1 hehehe
Same
Same
My directions literally has a picture saying not to do this lmaoooo
Mine as well!
This is how I destroyed my really cool lights I put around a desk 😢... Trust me don't do it 😑 instead where you need to bend the lights leave them not glued in that place and make a small curve so you would not bend the cable ,I'm bad at explaining but if you look for Goove lights you might find their manual which explains it. Also I do truly recommend getting Rgb lights which are covered by this thick rubber you will not break those and they are easy to install even better than those without because u don't have to worry about breaking them all the time 🙂
@@wiktoriagwozdowska5484ok so which company is this? I also want to get the chasing lights version as well. My main thing is I want to be able to sync them together for music via the app so all of the lights everywhere are playing in the same color. Since I’ve grouped my lights they start playing different colors on their own now when on voice activated but it shouldn’t rely on both Bluetooth units it should only be one damnit lol bc they’re synced.
A corner piece costs 2$. Just buy and cut
Folding it like this is an easy way to break the connection.
Done it. Broke a line. Now it only R😂 G and B is dead.
Scratch away some of the coating and just use some solder to fix it
@@RobynnxX I everyone knew how to solder, wouldn't they just solder some jumpers to get a perfect 90⁰ angle?
Same
@@himanshrasalits easy though
@himanshrasal that is exactly what I do with my tv's and monitors. Just solder some wires for 90°. So much neater.
Let me tell something if you bend like that you can destroy the connection in the led strip and your RGB will be paralyzed
I did it and it happened but mine completely snapt
Same and it fully ripped and half of the led light are not working
I prefer to use cables as conection
Exactly. Dude making the vid is a fool, just listen to him say "this is how you fold rgb"... No, you are folding an led strip... He should.cut it and get the 90 degree connector.
@@SMARTSUB.that what i mean paralyzed
I tried this and my led snapt in half so don't try this
You have to do it at a section where there are no pins (resistors) and no bulbs…
No. You buy the right angle connectors for LED strips, cut the strip, plug each cut end into the connector, and make a super clean, flat connection.
I think I will follow the directions that came with the product, thanks.
They don’t mention this just basic instructions
lol😂😂
Fosho 😂
@@dalethyahusha8370 Mine did, maybe buy better quality next time.
Protect this dude at all costs
Also - the second I found this out with my Govee lights, i kicked the wall and made a hole. Currently patching the wall.
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Patched - I’ll update everyone with my patched hole with Govee lights and sensor to kick off the color and my tea maker maker haha
@@yayeggsYou really did kick it off lol
My nanoleaf 4d comes with some corner things that really helps this process and eliminates the risk of cutting the electricity to the rest of the band. Really useful plastic
How to "properly" fold your LED strip is you *don't*
This is a neat ck that works but can risk destroying the internal copper traces.
The **proper** way to do this is to cut the strip and use either a corner joiner or scratch away some of the top coating, apply flux, and solder short jumper cables that do the bending instead, hopefully with some strain relief or secured to the desk
Properly you need to install it on an aluminium profile for cooling and sticky-ness, also, bending the strip puts a lot of mechanical and electrical stress in the bending point, so expect it to fall of soon and get 30-50% less bright.
Thank you so much man! I just installed my first led lights, I had them for a while but never got the chance to install them. This video helped me so much! I was wondering how to fold them properly. Thank you so much. 👊
Oh man! I wish I’d seen this video before I installed mine. Yours is nice and tidy. Thanks for sharing.🌸💕
Now you know for next time!
@@driggsy You bet.👊🏽
Umm, really risking breaking the RGB by doing this but if it works it works.
The proper way is to cut the strip, place it how you want and solder on the wires again to bridge the cuts, you can cover that up with tape. They also make really easy 90° joints you can plug the cut ends into if you're less electrically inclined. You can also just leave more room and not try to have such a tight bend, crimping it like that risks damaging a diod or resistor.
You don't fold you, use a T connector
L indeed
There's usually a line where you can cut the strip and solder some short wire lengths if you want to make sharp bends.
This helps a lot as I’m planning to get some RGB light strips in the next few months!
Sweet!! Ever since I learned how to do this I used the same method on multiple projects and it works like a charm 👌🏼 Glad I posted this!
pro tip: use SK6812 Led Strips
Perfect fold! Also cutting and getting the 90* angel connectors works great as well (assuming the RGB you have is cuttable)
The algorithm is bringing me your shorts nonstop 😁👍 good stuff
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Important to note he's in the middle between the LEDs. The closer to the bulb the higher the risk of causing separation of the bulb from the circuit. Not fun.
You’re a clown.
I might of already done mine and deleted the R in RGB so now i have GB lights on half my strip.😅
They make 90* corner crimps for this purpose. It requires one cut and you’re basically done, they don’t cost much either. Source, I’m an electrician and do these often.
Unfortunately they don’t work with rgbic. What a dilemma I’m in
Careful not to snap one of the bulbs though.
I cut my strips to the right length and then solder small cables onto each connecting point so that the cable can bend without having to stick to itself.
If you have the time this is definitely the way to go 🙌🏼 how’d it come out?
@@driggsy extremely clean, no over laps, I do electronic repairs as a side job so I'm pretty handy with the soldering iron. Took me probably 30 minutes from unboxing to having the strips cut to length and re-soldered and ready to be put behind my desk
@@LokelyConed Love to hear that. Having the background is very useful. I bet it was a fun project! Enjoy the clean looks!
@@driggsy very fun indeed, now I just need to make sure I don't spill a drink down the back and short them again 😅
@@LokelyConed hahah definitely don’t want that!
this can also damage the strip, so be careful with it. or just use a floating bend.
Thanks Bro That Really Helped Me Out! Subscribed And Liked :D
That will be the first failure point and the diodes closest to the fold will be the first to fail. Been there done that. If you don't want them to fail get a corner connector OR space the led strip so there's a cut line approx where you want to go 90degrees then cut the strip and solder wires. Led strip is not as flexible as yall think and the thin copper traces INSIDE the flexible pcb substrate are still fragile.
Randomly useful video of the year
Thanks, I really needed to for this for my gaming room, and nearly destroyed the entire strip. So thanks (a lot)
No, you never fold rgb! In your case a flex neon rope/ silicone flex diffuser would have give a much cleaner and proper look.
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@@GamrokFeddy some people are just deranged enough to put someone's ass on a pfp. RUclips algorithms are bullshit in that regard
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Please use a diffuser on LED strips.
Especially if they’re going to be visible.
Nothing cheaper than having plain RGB strips on the wall
I feel like a fucking engineer putting up leds
Thank you sir! No more arced edges for me 😊
Ohh very nice, saw this after I installed mine. took too much time soldering that rgbw. I died watching this.
Actually guys your not supposed to fold rgb really good light manufacturers will give u 90o connectors u can do this but some how wear and tear will eventually make them rip after a year or 2 my last setup I was using the method in this video and the wires went out but now I’m using goove so far so good for the last year or 2 and u can usually change the rgb receiver when they come out with new ones w/o changing the led strips
There is a 90 degree plastic bend with connector for this type of stuff , I would say this is not recommended, you can break the connection doing this !
Yeah ... no, you never want to make a hard folded line in ANY tapelight ... the entire tape is a very thin linear copper tape with which the energy transfers. If you fold it you WILL break that tape, even microscopically. So, if you cant solder, do gentle loops for folds inatead.
I honestly would get corner clips for these types of things because i feel i would peel it due to my need for constant fidgeting
next time 💀 seeing this over a year after installing mine, and at that time the other videos i watched weren't as to the point and i was too excited to wait 😂
I cut my strip, then cut the ends at opposite direction 45 degree angled, and peeled back some of the insulation to expose the wires inside. I soldered each wire back together and used a little bit of liquid electrical tape to keep the wires from touching. The liquid tape dried white, which matches the color of the strip. From a distance, it looks like the strip was made with a 90 degree bend.
Fold and snap the copper trace, all RGB cables are made of 10 cm sections, cut where it specifies and solder wires. Then you will get a non hanging/ snapped angle.
Thanks I just got some and idk what i'm doing 😂
That will usually break the leads mate. Just fold it properly.
Or you just cut it and use 90 degree corner pieces and splice them together looks better and less chance of the circuit printed in it shorting out or breaking eventually
Step 1: buy strips that actually stick long enough to fold your rgb strip
Cut it then rotate it and apply back on to the contacts and you don't have to fold
It’s 2024 you can buy cheap solder less corner connections where you just cut it and clamp it on
Also the way in the video is a good way to damage the leads
No! You cut it and soldier only the most perfect lengths of wires most meticulously, so that it looks proper (Read in British accent)
This man saved us a lot of pennies
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Nah down the road, it's gonna get ruined, no long term thinking, this jackase is hungry for contents loll
Ur literally gonna break ur lights doing this
Like folding IDE cables but smaller.
Cool, but how do u stop it from falling off the bottom of the desk after 2 days
They have corner connectors for this... Cheap and simple to use
There are dirt cheap RGB connectors for this exact purpose, because you're not supposed to do this...
Its a flexible pcb. The proper way is to convert to wire then back to pcb.
Watched this 3 years after my rgb strip has been installed 🎉
Sir, you just saved me such a massive headache before my new govee lights got in
I learned that from my teacher in 3rd grade super helpful
Nice tip. My strip is now rg. Is that made from google
Don’t do this if you have 100ft of LEDs for $15… all of the LEDs past that bend will just break and not work.
Instead, get a strip with more solder points, cut them, place them at 90 degree to eachother, and just solder tiny wires between the connections for your corner. Cover with some tidily cut tape if you want...
😭 it’s so obvious and somehow i couldn’t figure that out wow
For those of you with the lights on but there's nobody home.
Not my screen distance reminder in the way when he did it😭😭☠️💀💀💀💀💀
Thanks God I see you before I instaled
Just be careful and don’t bend it too hard!
I think even if we fold the strip directly, it would be folded in the exact same pattern
Yep. Crease the circuit board and all the wires. Brilliant.
Wow genius! Thanks dude
Don’t use $16 LEDs
24 volt high density or at a minimum 12volt. Medium density.
This is not how you probably fold RGB Light. Because its s f****** strip, i cant believe im saying this but when you bend an electric strip the wires instead of the strip bend and once those wires are not indestructible if you bend them too much, well they are going to break and disrupt electricity signal which will break the light. It’s very dependent on how good of s quality those wires and it comes back usual’y to cheap wires on cheap strip light which wont be much resistant to the bending. But no matter what eventually most wires will break in time. To finish up on a good note the real way to make a strip light bend is by not bending it instead use corner connector and actually cut the wires on the right connecting spot and then use the connector to connect the two strip light ends, connectors are on Amazon for 4 bucks and tutorials are on youtube.
Dang, I wish I saw this before I put mine up
You're actually supposed to make a loop. Folding the strip usually leads to a damaged circuit.
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Dont do this it breaks the lights, buy a connector off of the internet or follow the instructions with the lights its safer!
Its better to cut and install 90 dwgree clamps or leave it slit bend. With this you had broke copper... You are licky it works...
please don't do this if it doesn't snap then it gives you problems down the line with weird flickering when is what will happen to him since some of the lines decide to cut off and you only get some colours
Please don't do this, instead get a 90 degree adapter, doing this will damage your LED strips over time
can this affect the led lights working, and also does this method work with rgbic?
Yes it does I lost blue, pink and some other colors due to this
I got myself a philips hue lightstrip it can be cut and then you just turn it like that then you put some device that connects the two ends so it works again
no dont do this. They are not designed to be handled like that. You can very, very easily destroy the conducting paths because they are fragile to bending
Better just to buy the little connectors you can get and just splice away.
How about don’t bend it all the way and make it a slight angled where the right angle isn’t making contact with the surface at all. Been doing it like this forever.
me watching this 5 hours after installing rbg strips: youtube... WHY
Thank you for this video, it was sooooo necessary!!!!
That only works if you have pov spec LEDs try that with 144/m strips
Worked great thanks ❤❤
Glad I could help!
This is how you properly destroy the traces :)
The proper way is to cut and solder leads to the ends. Also, you want to hide the srips
10 loops and hoops later its in the right direction.
Defo didnt waste 5 inch
Or... cut the strips between the gold contacts and use 90 degree connectors. Much neater.
you can literally cut them and put them back together at an angle .. thats why people use them
I literally figured this out myself so long ago. 😂 it's common sense
Guys don't do this, it's just another view grab for people wondering why theirs ain't working. Once you bend it this way, it ain't bending back after, you're just buying more.. it's under a desk, I don't see a proper way unless you're 15ft tall and want to show off your sick Cable management skills.
No, please do not do this, you are LITERALLY bending the lines, and then you pushed it down which would pretty much kill your strip's lifespan
Nice led lights🎉
Thank you!
Noooo, over time the material stresses and splits leading to cracking and creates a clean split cut of where you folded. This will lead to failure.
I had led strips on my panoramic roof. I wandt vene folding the strip but after 10 months of having a slight bend, it just split.
Always provide ribon loop, to aliviate any pressur epoints that can lead to failure.
If you bought these at marshalls or tj max do what u want but if is 100$ kit dont doo thiss
Yeah… don’t do this… you’ll break the RGB link.
I didn’t know u could do that cus I thought the govee RGB was very delicate and I already installed mine I didn’t know about this till now😂💀
Ugh I didn't properly do this. . I'm going to re-do 😮. . Thanks .