ALITOVE 16.4ft 5050 SMD Red LED Flexible Strip Ribbon Light 5M 300 LEDs Waterproof IP65 DC 12V for Home Garden Commercial Area Lighting

These lights deliver. They actually have what appears to be genuine 3M tape . They stay in place and they are bright.

Purchased a roll of these lights to wrap a 4 ft fiberglass pole to make a whip light for my side by side. First roll I got was great... adhesive was strong and held the lights in place while I wrapped the pole. Got to the end and was able to get the heat shrink tubing over it and everything went without any problems. Light whip looks and functions great... nice and bright and I love the black PCB look. HOWEVER... THAT WAS THE EXCEPTION!!! Bought another roll to do another fiberglass pole and before I could wrap 2 feet of the pole I started hearing this faint popping sound. The silicone covering started to crack and peel in several areas. By the time I had 3 feet wrapped the silicone was flaking off... no way I was going to be able to make that work. Peeled it off the pole and sent it back and ordered a replacement. Third roll just arrived and I set to work on making the second light whip. Everything went great. Got the pole wrapped without any issues... same as the first. Then, as I began to work the shrink wrap over the lights and pole I began to hear that faint popping again. By the time I got the shrink wrap over the pole there were no less than 20 pieces of silicone flaking off the light strip. I went ahead and heated the wrap getting some of the silicone to re-seat on the led strip, but several either broke off inside the wrap or would not lay down agains the lights and so there are several bumps and divots all up the pole. Now the casual person will not see them, and you certainly wont know they are there at 50mph running through the desert. But I KNOW THEY ARE THERE, and I know the poor quality of this product. The description states Using flexible copper circuit board, you can gently bend it to an arc. Please NEVER rudely bend it to right or acute angle, otherwise the circuit board and silicone coating will crack. Well, I didnt rudely bend it to 90 or any acute angle... I wrapped to around a fiberglass rod and it cracked. Not happy with the end result... it still works so for now I will use it, but I think when I decide to re-build the light (and I will as I am very particular about my things) I will look at other brands of lights. Its too bad really... they looked like quality lights from their appearance. Oh yeah... one last thing. The picture shows them wound on the roll with the lights facing out, but when you get them, the lights are wound to the inside so the silicone coating is already set OPPOSITE to how you are going to mount the lights, so from the very start you are risking the silicone cracking because it is pre-conditioned to bend up... so no wonder when you flex them down around something they crack.

Purchased for deck lighting on my bass boat. Very bright and easy to install. Also used them in the deck boxes.

I have bought and installed more than my fair share of LED strips. In boats, RVs, trucks, ATVs, houses, you name it. From multiple different suppliers including eBay, direct sellers, etc. I’m impressed with the quality of these out of the package. Thick, sturdy, good wiring, color is consistent and bright as you’d expect for 5050s. The 3m tape backing always seems to be the weak link with a good install. It just doesn’t last. We’ll see how these do. I’ll buy again though - much better than waiting a month to get a package from overseas.

I received this LED light strip on June 6, installed under my kitchen cabinets June 10, today is June 20 and the LEDs are burnt out in 3 places! Also extremely hot to touch. My other LED light strips (different brand) are warm but not hot. I guess you get what you pay for! I do not recommend this product.

*Edit* This company took care of our issues. They replaced the rolls quickly so that we could have two rolls of working lights. so thankful for their quick customer service. The new rolls work great! I bought two rolls and both were defective. I have installed led strips in dozens of applications and this is by far the worst product I have used. After cutting to length the strips will not stay lit when using solderless connections. The contact patch doesn’t work and after replacing the connections and even recutting to a new joint there was no improvement. I would recommend you find a more robust product or expect to spend hours of troubleshooting only to scrap the entire project.

I used this for my underhood accent lighting. I just installed, so I will update if anything changes. The double sided tape seemed strong. I used the plug end so I can disconnect if needed and I wired it to a hood pin switch I added so the light comes on when I open my hood. I have the remaining 9-10 I can use for something else with the hard wire ends so Im glad both ends had wiring connections. Day/night pictures attached

I needed very small LED red lights for a project. these worked perfectly.

Very bright looks great! The only issue I had, was there nowhere on the instructions did it say the wattage in order to figure out what size fuse to install it at shemales I didn’t that ass de DC amp meter.. I was surprised it was not marked on the box or package anywhere the Watts? Other than that great product.

I bought the blue LED strip that could hook up to a car/boat battery. Very simple. A Pos lead and a Neg lead. I unrolled the strip and hooked them up to a toggle switch in my 16 fishing boat. I stuck the strips up underneath the gunwales. I just finished installing them and they look great. Very use to install and the strips felt very sticky/tacky. I hope that they stick for a long time on aluminum. Great shipping, but Im fearing that they will lose their tackiness and fall out of place. If they last more than a season or two, Ill update this review to a 5 star. In hind sight... I should probably put a fuse on the Pos lead .... but that will be a project for another day.