2x Plastic Mounting Clips to Suit 10mm x 18mm IP68 Haviflex

2x Plastic Mounting Clips to Suit 10mm x 18mm IP68 Haviflex

This is a set of mounting clips to suit 10mm x 18mm IP68 Haviflex strip.

⚠ It is a component on its own. There is no LED strip in it and no driver - it is one of the parts that holds, joins or terminates a strip run you already have.

What they do

Mounting clips hold flexible strip to a surface mechanically, rather than relying on adhesive. That distinction is the whole point of them.

Adhesive backing works well on a clean, flat, room-temperature surface and much less well on anything else. It struggles on textured or dusty substrates, it lets go as things warm up, and it gives out over time in exactly the positions that are hardest to reach. A run that has started to droop between fixings is almost always an adhesive-only run.

Clips fix the run at intervals and hold it whatever the surface and whatever the temperature, which is what makes them worth using on any installation intended to last.

How many and where

Space them evenly along the run and closer together on any curve. A curve pulls against its fixings continuously, so it needs more support than a straight length does, and the place a run first lifts is nearly always the outside of a bend.

These are supplied as a pair, so work out the total the run needs before ordering. Under-ordering clips is the classic way to stall an otherwise finished job, and they are cheap enough that a spare handful is never wasted.

Fitting them

Fix the clips first and press the strip in afterwards, checking as you go that the run stays straight. It is easy to correct a wandering line while only a few clips are in, and impossible once the whole run is fixed.

⚠ Clips are sized to a particular strip section. Confirm yours is 10mm x 18mm IP68 Haviflex strip before ordering.

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