Customer Reviews

New LED Color Changing Mood Strip w/ 2 Strip Lights

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

I love my LED Strip light kit from Eaglelight. The shipping was as quick as the rest of my order from Amazon, and it arrived in a compact box with clear instructions. Setup was much easier than I thought it would be, and involved plugging the adapter into the wall, and either plugging each strip into the controller unit, or you can connect the strips together to form one long one (which is what I would up doing).

I placed them behind my newly purchased Ladoro Translucent Shelving Kit from a local brick and mortar store. When I bought these, I knew that the plastic, translucent shelves were prime for a unique lighting treatment, and my quest led me to purchase these.

Let me tell you, the kit looks awesome with these shelves. The LEDs are bright, and have 3 brightness control settings. The remote is compact and works well, and you can pick from the 4 main colors (red, blue, green, or white - each of which is especially intense and vibrant), a choice of 12 preset colors which are a mix of the main colors, or 4 different modes that change colors.
-Flash - rapidly transitions solid colors
-Strobe - slowly transitions solid colors
-Fade - slowly fades into each color
-Smooth - quickly fades into each color.

I use mainly white or the Fade/Smooth effect in my room. The white is clean and excellent for helping to light a space, while the transitions add fun and excitement to the room, while not being too distracting.

I will try to post pictures of my application of the lights. For any application, however, I highly recommend this kit, and probably will be purchasing additional strips in the near future.

--Update - Nov. 2010 (a little over a year of use)--

The lights rarely turn on now. I have moved the shelving unit they are attached to about twice over the past year and even the stresses of a light move have appeared to damage the connectors in the strip to the point that they must be pressed together with my hands or tape to keep the lights on. I doubt that this would happen had it not been for the move, but regardless I would expect most products to not deteriorate in the sense that these did. So if your planned application of these does not call for them to be moved, well, ever, then I still would consider these a 5-star product, although with my experiences I have downgraded this review to 4 stars overall. Because I was still quite satisfied with them until they stopped working and am even considering purchasing them again to replace the damaged set.

Several years ago I purchased a similar LED strip light kit (not flexible) from IKEA for about $50. I loved it, decided I wanted more, and this kit was the closest I could find to that IKEA kit I purchased.

The quality of the LEDs are fantastic, they are very bright and vibrant. The controller on the other hand kinda sucks. The dimmer control doesn't work well, it seems to cycle the leds through a mere two brightness settings that are so close to one another that you wouldn't be able to tell the difference if it weren't for the flash that occurs during the transition. Also, the color buttons on the remote don't really indicate the colors they will produce (for example, pressing the yellow button will cause the strips to illuminate in white. One of the orange buttons produces pink, etc). Also, and the biggest disappointment for me, is that the modes that automatically cycle the lights through all of the colors are all choppy and abrupt. The IKEA strips I got would fade slowly and seamlessly from one color to the next in a very relaxing and hypnotic manner - these dim for a second or two and then quickly jump to the next color - and yes I was using the fade and slow functions. The faster stroke and flash functions work fine.

Overall I will keep them because I purchased them to backlight my computer monitors and plan on keeping them the same color all the time. I will not be buying more for the rest of my needs though. :(

So to sum up my experience:

Pros:
* Bright!
* Vibrant, saturated colors
* A remote control
* Flexible led strips make mounting easy
* No high-pitched whine from controller or power supply

Cons:
* Dimming function doesn't work properly - and these are bright!
* All of the fade features are rather fast and abrupt. Not seamless at all.
* Colored buttons on remote don't all correspond to output color when pressed
* Connecting wires less than a foot long means you either have to mount the strips next to each other or make your own extension cables.

I thought it would be a really cool pc add on, and indeed it was but for one hooking the lights into each other was the hardest thing i've ever tried, the instructions say nothing, i did find a way around this but after that the entire thing started smoking and died the leds are fine i think its the IR controller that died.
50 bucks and gone in 2 hours.


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after contacting the seller he shipped a replacement right away great service EPIC pc mod and super bright.
there is also a seizure mode on the lights (super fast flashing)

This product is better than I thought. It was easy to install and looks great. I have glass shelves to hold my beer glasses and I used the strips to illuminate the bottom of the shelves and glasses. Again it looks great and I couldn't be happier with the product. I can't wait to show off my new and improved bar.

The seller also shipped the product faster than I thought. I ordered the lights Monday afternoon and the package was on my doorstep Thursday.

A+ product, A+ seller!

This light changes a whole rooms feel with an easy install. Very bright light in all colors. plugs into wall

Lights Are awesome!!!
Instructions could be better.
Connector cords should be longer- they skimped on that! What's up with
White and black cords-pick one....

Great LED light strip, works well! I had it about 2 years now and it still works great. Colors are really nice and it has nice fading options. You can also connect more strips togther for a longer lengh which is cool.

I liked this product when I received it, but after one week some of the lights on one of the strips would turn a different color than I intended, which has now made one of the light strips useless.

I bought these strip lights initially to use behind my samsung 50 inch Plasma TVSamsung PN50B650 50-Inch 1080p Plasma HDTV since i saw other reviews on how this led lights complemented the Plasma TV experience.

Order arrived as scheduled and packaging was compact neat and easty to open. Instructions came with this but its a simple Plug and use product. As soon as I light them up I new I was in for trouble because they looked great right in my living room. Normally these fixtures are used for white, chill out , lounge style furniture I lve in a very VERY Caribean oriented deco Apt so these lights were not an option for my living room until I saw them. I quickly mounted them behing my extended lat table in our Living room using double tape ( thought it came attached but was nor sure so used my own/ the 3M tape attached to the strips look like they are there to cover electrical chips form the strips.

Plugged them in and faced the table with the lights facing the front towards the wall. The effect was amazing! I Put a couple of Cristal objects on top and it looked even better!! I have guests over often so this table will become my Party Bar.Flash Mode creates a great ambiance for a get toghether with some friends!

As soon as I set my next party up Ill make pictures with a coule of Grey Goose botles and White rum Margaritas. This WILL indeed be the talk of the Party.

I am so pleased with this product my only complain is that I now have to buy ANOTHER set For my TV I did not even try it it on so guess Ill be spending more money!!!

EagleLights LED strips are great for many purposes. I installed 2 of them in my home theater specifically for the constant white setting. I would recommend them to anyone who dosn't mind the price for the luxury of this item. The colors are very vibrant and look beatiful when reflected off the walls. The quality of this product is outstanding. There are a few things I would change to make these easier to install. The wires that lead to the LED strips are very short and dont allow the placement of multiple strips easy. The IR receiver is also a very short wire and although it is very important to have the end of this wire in sight with your remote, again is will make the placement of the LED strips difficult. My last complaint is the bright light on the wall outlet AC adapter. I had to cover it so the light would not be seen behind the TV. Luckily for my application, everything was placed in great location with no issues except the IR receiver would be better off in a different location than it is now. I will buy more in the future.