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What are COB LED Strips?
COB (Chip on Board) LED Strips are a lighting technology that tightly packs many LED chips onto a circuit board, producing a smooth, continuous light with no gaps or hot spots.
Unlike traditional LED strips, which are visible and spaced apart, COB LED strips have a denser array of LEDs, resulting in a more uniform, seamless light with no noticeable hot spots. This makes them ideal for applications that require smooth and continuous lighting. Known for their high brightness, efficiency, and durability, COB LED strips are popular in commercial and residential lighting projects.
Features of COB LED Soft Strips
Seamless Lighting
One of the standout features of COB LED Soft Strips is their ability to produce seamless lighting. Unlike traditional LED strips, which can produce a dotted and line effect, COB strips emit a smooth and continuous light due to the high density of LED chips. This feature is particularly useful for applications where uniform light output is critical, such as under-cabinet lighting, cove lighting, or any setting where the light source is visible. The seamless glow of COB LED strips eliminates the blotchiness that comes with other types of LED lighting, enhancing the aesthetic of a space.
High Light Density
COB LED soft strips are characterized by their high light density, which refers to the number of LED chips that are closely packed together over the length of the strip. This design allows for brighter output per unit length compared to traditional LED strips. The increased brightness makes COB strips an excellent choice for areas that require high levels of illumination, such as task lighting in kitchens or offices, without the need for additional light sources.
Highly Flexible
Flexibility COB LED strips are another significant benefit. These strips can be bent and twisted to fit a variety of shapes and surfaces, making them versatile in creative lighting designs. Whether wrapping around curves, conforming to irregular shapes, or installing in tight corners, COB LED strips adapt easily, providing consistent illumination without compromising light quality or intensity.
Wide Beam Angle
COB LED strips offer a wide beam angle, with a 180-degree beam angle, ensuring that light distribution is broad and even. This wide angle is ideal for evenly illuminating large areas, reducing shadows, and enhancing the visual comfort of a space. Whether used for general ambient lighting or specific task areas, the wide coverage of COB light strips ensures that light reaches every corner, making them a practical choice for residential and commercial environments.
Energy Efficiency and Lifespan
Energy efficiency and lifespan are key features of COB LED light strips. Despite their high light output, these light strips consume less power than traditional lighting solutions due to the efficiency of COB technology. Additionally, COB LED light strips have a longer lifespan, with many models offering thousands of hours of run time. This durability, combined with low energy consumption, makes COB LED light strips a cost-effective and sustainable lighting option.
Cuttable and Customizable
COB LED light strips are cuttable and customizable, making them easy to integrate into custom lighting designs. With designated cutting points along the strip, users can trim COB LED light strips to the exact length required for their project, ensuring a perfect fit every time. This feature, along with the availability of a wide range of connectors and accessories, makes it simple to create custom lighting solutions that meet specific design needs.
Dimmable
Finally, the dimmable features of COB LED light strips add to their appeal. Being able to adjust the brightness of the lighting allows for the creation of different atmospheres and moods in a space, from bright and vibrant to soft and relaxing. This flexibility makes COB LED strips suitable for a wide range of applications, enhancing the functionality and ambience of any environment.
Advantages of COB LED Soft Strips
No LED lighting spots, even without aluminum profiles.
One of the most lauded advantages of COB LED soft strips is their ability to provide uniform light output without LED lighting spots, even in installations that do not use aluminum profiles. This results in a cleaner, more consistent light appearance that enhances the aesthetic of any space. This is a key factor for designers and homeowners who seek stylish, smooth lighting effects without visible spots or harshness.
Greater Flexibility
COB LED strips are remarkably soft, allowing for creative installations in a variety of settings. This flexibility enables designers and DIY enthusiasts to incorporate lighting into complex designs and small spaces that traditional LED strips may not accommodate. The adaptability of COB strips opens up new possibilities for custom lighting solutions that can wrap around curves, fit into narrow niches, or precisely highlight architectural features.
More stable, fewer problems
Direct chip connection: COB LED strips utilize chips that connect directly to the FPCB (flexible printed circuit board), eliminating the need for gold wires, which are a common failure point in traditional SMD LED strips.
Gold wire problems in SMD LEDs: Many problems with traditional SMD LED strips are caused by the gold wires inside the LED beads. Gold wires are very fragile and can easily break, resulting in non-luminous chips and stripping failures.
Innovative circuit design: The circuit design of COB strips uses a unique approach that first connects three chips in parallel as a group. The groups are then connected in series to form a continuous strip. This configuration ensures that even if one or two chips in a group fail, the rest of the strip remains lit.
High chip density: COB LED strips have a high chip density per meter (up to 480 chips), ensuring that 1-2 chip failures will not create dark areas or affect the overall use of the strip. This high chip count helps improve the uniformity and reliability of lighting.
Wide Emission Angle
We recommend wide emission angle (180 degree beam angle) COB LED light strips for wide coverage, ensuring that light is evenly distributed over a wide area. This feature is particularly useful in environments where uniform lighting is critical, such as in task lighting, ambient lighting, or when highlighting large surfaces. The wide angle helps eliminate shadows and dark spots, creating a more welcoming, well-lit environment.
Anti-Vulcanization
COB LED light strips, designed with corrosion-resistant materials Vulcanization is a process that causes traditional rubber and plastic parts to harden and deteriorate over time when exposed to sulfur and other chemicals. This resistance extends the aesthetic and functional life of the strip, ensuring it remains flexible and maintains its integrity even in challenging environments.
Stronger Anti-Static Capability
With stronger anti-static capabilities, COB LED light strips are less susceptible to damage from static electricity, a common problem in dry climates or certain times of the year. This feature helps protect the delicate electronic components within the light strip, reducing the risk of premature failure and extending the overall life of the lighting solution.
Disadvantages of COB LED Soft Strips
It is difficult to maintain color consistency and cannot be binned
One of the challenges with COB LED strips is that it is difficult to maintain color consistency across different batches because they do not use a binning machine process. This can result in slight variations in color temperature and hue, which can be noticeable in some applications, especially when adding new sections to an existing installation.
Lower Luminous Efficiency
While COB LED strips offer many advantages, they may exhibit lower luminous efficiency compared to some high-power conventional LED strips. This means that, in some cases, they may produce less light per watt of energy consumed. However, for many applications, the benefits of superior light quality as well as uniformity and aesthetics outweigh this factor.
Low Power Consumption
COB LED strips typically operate at lower watts and have higher brightness levels than some conventional LED strips designed for high-brightness applications. This feature is not necessarily a disadvantage, but it is something to consider when planning a project that requires strong lighting levels. However, in most residential and commercial settings, COB LED strips can provide ample light to create a welcoming and well-lit space.