Lixada 5M/16.4ft 300LEDs RGBW Outdoor Waterproof Flexile Strip Light

Effective color source and clarity, and great price

 This is my review for the Lixada 5M RGB LED Strip. WHAT YOU GET IN THE BOX : You get 1 RGB LED strip, one power brick, one LED controller, one LED controller controller, and an instruction manual. BUILD QUALITY : I am VERY impressed with the build quality of this product. The RGB has a thick silicon coating, that will make it much more durable in the long run, and would likely make it much more resistant to the elements. The box and power brick are just plastic but I expect nothing more, and the controller is good. Great job on the build quality! FUNCTIONALITY : These are perfect, except with one big gripe. The LED strip is very bright and frankly gorgeous, and the silicon coating helps better diffuse the light, giving a more consistent glow rather than the segmented glow some other strips suffer from. The controller works good and there is a good amount of customization. My main gripe with this, and by far the biggest flaw IMO, is that there is no adhesive on the back! This is something I had definitely come to expect on an RGB strip, I had planned on putting this on the back of my desk for cool lighting, but now this will be much more of a hassle, because I have to deal with zip ties and such. OVERALL : Overall, I would recommend this RGB strip. These are obviously meant to be used outside or other places to where they would be subjected to harsh conditions, and this is why I assume they didn't bother putting adhesive on the back, but I still would've really appreciated it being there, or at least a note somewhere on the page.

Works great, could have used an address guide.

Whoever wrote the user manual for this product had a very poor grasp of English. I have read through the reviews and questions and there is a fair amount of misinformation and misunderstanding of the subjects related to the operation of this device. I purchased one of these DMX decoders to test an LED lighting controller that I have been developing over the past several months. Its target customer base is filmmakers. Because I will be using this device in my development I would like to provide a mini user manual for this product since the one that came with the device was so poorly written. I will add to this review as I learn more about it.

For the price, this is a great unit. Takes DMX 512 and drives an LED tape. The box is somewhat light-weight steel so I don't know that I would want this on the road, but I use it in permanent install and it has lasted just fine.