These LED lighting strips have proven their worth in the automotive industry and now are crossing over into home design
Although highly praised as an automotive accessory, the new LightForm flexible LED lighting film system has many applications for home lighting and enhancing decor designs.
The new LED light strips are less than 1 millimeter thick and enable users to quickly and easily install LED lighting in tight spaces that were previously inaccessible. They can even be sewn into fabric. For do-it-yourself home decorators and automobile detailers, the new technology offers more creative options that were unthinkable before.The LED lighting film is ultra thin and ultra pliable, allowing users to bend lighting around corners, over contoured areas and into complicated shapes. LightForm can be folded, cut to fit while lit and can slide into the narrowest crevices and between panels and trim. The LED strips also enables users to achieve edge lighting effects that are as bright at one end as they are at the other, and when used with light diffusing film, eliminate hotspots and bright points of light that are often associated with traditional edge lighting methods.
How LED Light Strips Work
The flexible LED strips come in power strips and extension strips. Each power strip can illuminate up to two extension strips. Each strip is 10″ long, 1/2″ wide and less than 1 millimeter thick.
The strips are expandable. Up to three 10″ segments can be connected, providing up to 30″ of red, amber, green or blue LED lighting. The strips come with an easy peel-and-stick adhesive backing that sticks to virtually any clean surface.
Grote Industries, the manufacturer of the LED strip lighting, is a global leader in the vehicle and transportation lighting industry. Gary Grote, the company’s spokesman said there is a big demand placed on both interior and exterior vehicle lighting products. The product was rigorously stress tested using salt baths, extreme humidity, heat and cold.
At one trade show, Grote demonstrated the product’s ruggedness by taking a lit LED lighting strip out of a container of water, cutting it with a pair of scissors, and administering blows to it with a ball-pein hammer.
