Nick Cosper
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I have a bunch of 12vdc light strips from Ray Wu mounted to 1/2" pvc along the eaves of my house. These strips are spliced together from ray every meter or so and at those solder joints the strips are constantly breaking. Every morning it seems, I will have at least 1 or two repairs to make from these solder joints breaking. I've tried to cable tie on each side of every solder joint, not have the strip pulled tight, cable tie directly on the solder joint and it seems as though nothing helps. My home has direct sun exposure all day on these lights, but it seems as though they break at night.
Temperatures are about 70F in the day and 35F at night and I assume that the big change is causing them to contract at night and maybe pull tight to break.
Anyone have any ideas on preventing this? I fear that this will occur regularly during the christmas season putting a big damper on my display.
Currently the lights are up in prep for a halloween display
Thanks
Temperatures are about 70F in the day and 35F at night and I assume that the big change is causing them to contract at night and maybe pull tight to break.
Anyone have any ideas on preventing this? I fear that this will occur regularly during the christmas season putting a big damper on my display.
Currently the lights are up in prep for a halloween display
Thanks