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LED Strip Light Wiring Guide

LED strip lights require a regulated 12V DC power supply. A transformer outputs AC voltage which is not suitable. The power supply has input wires for 230V AC mains power and output wires for the 12V DC connection to the strip light. Single color strip lights connect the +12V and ground wires from the strip light to the corresponding wires from the power supply. RGB strip lights have 4 wires - green, red, blue LED wires and a common +12V wire that connect to an RGB controller or directly to the power supply wires. When running long cable lengths power losses can occur so keeping runs short is recommended.

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LED Strip Light Wiring Guide

LED strip lights require a regulated 12V DC power supply. A transformer outputs AC voltage which is not suitable. The power supply has input wires for 230V AC mains power and output wires for the 12V DC connection to the strip light. Single color strip lights connect the +12V and ground wires from the strip light to the corresponding wires from the power supply. RGB strip lights have 4 wires - green, red, blue LED wires and a common +12V wire that connect to an RGB controller or directly to the power supply wires. When running long cable lengths power losses can occur so keeping runs short is recommended.

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STRIP LIGHT WIRING

LED strip light requires a regulated DC voltage to operate, which is usually 12V DC. When running LED strip light
from mains AC power, ensure you install a suitable power supply. Note that a ‘transformer’ outputs an AC voltage
that is not suitable for running LED strip light and similar products.

Power Supplies
A power supply outputs a regulated DC voltage which is required by LED strip light. LEDstuff waterproof power
supplies come with flying wires out each end. At one end brown, blue and green wires are available for connecting
to mains 230V AC. At the other end, brown/blue, or black/red, wires are available for the regulated DC voltage. The
image below shows this power supply wiring. Some power supplies come with a 3-pin plug on the input end, and
others have multiple output wires which can be used to power multiple loads (if running a single load, these should
be connected in parallel).

Strip Light
Single colour strip light requires a +12V connection from a power supply. Simply connect the red (+12V) wire to the
brown/black (+12V) wire of the power supply, and the black (ground) wire to the blue/red (ground) wire on the
power supply.

RGB strip light has a 4-wire connection, where green, red and blue are for the green, red and blue LEDs, and the
black/white wire is the common +12V connection. These 4 wires are usually wired to an appropriate RGB controller,
however to hard wire the strip you can connect the black/white (+12V) wire to the brown/black (+12V) wire on the
power supply, and any combination of the green, red and blue wires to the blue/brown (Ground) wire of the power
supply.

Note: When running any 12V load the wire length should be kept as short as possible to minimise
losses. A rule of thumb when running 0.75mm cable is to run no more than (500 / Watts) in meters.
For example, 100W should be less than 5m.

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RGB Controllers
An RGB controller is required to run 4-wire RGB strip light and to enable the colours and effects. The following
wiring diagram shows how to wire up a power supply, RGB controller and strip light. Note that a standard RGB
controller can typically run up to 140W of strip light (see controller specifications for actual limit).

RGB Amplifiers
When you want to control more strip than a single controller can drive, but you do not want to have a second
controller, you can install an RGB amplifier. As shown in the wiring diagram below, the amplifier takes the 4-wire
signal from the RGB controller and drives a second lot of strip, typically from a second power supply.

Safety
It is recommended that any electrical work be performed by a registered electrician. If you will be attempting any
work yourself, please review the NZECP 51 - Electrical Code of Practice for Homeowners document on the Energy
Safety website. Go to www.worksafe.govt.nz and search for “ECP 51”.

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