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[QUOTE="i13, post: 116221, member: 21708"] If you don't have one already, you might want to get a decent soldering iron for learning to solder and just generally doing a lot of it, especially with strips because they are prone to overheating. Having an adjustable temperature (I prefer digital), an appropriate tip size and a good amount of power should help. I overheated some strips in 2014 and they worked fine at first. What happened was the copper pads (in Mark_M's picture) fell off of the strips in the following seasons. If you plan to buy strips, I suggest asking Ray for some end caps to fit them in case you need to change the lengths. Ask him to put holes in all of them or he will assume that you only want wires at one end of each strip and he'll send 50% without holes. I don't see the point of them without holes because the silicone glue that I'm already using seals up the holes when I don't use them. [URL]https://www.aliexpress.com/item/459153462.html[/URL] When choosing silicone glue to seal ends and joins in strips, it should be neutral cure. I'd be cautious about using the cheapest available. I've had this discolour in the sun or eventually turn bad in the tube so that it stays sticky and doesn't set. Make sure it sets before using it on strips. When joining strips, I use some silicone glue on the inside and outside of the strip's sheath with heatshrink over the top. Clear heatshrink is not essential; I've used black heatshrink and I still can't see it unless it overlaps the LEDs. I shrink it just enough to fit the size of the strip. [/QUOTE]
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