Bendable channel 1 Metre length ( 2x500mm) to suit HV9796 HAVIFLEX

Bendable channel 1 Metre length ( 2x500mm) to suit HV9796 HAVIFLEX

This is a plastic mounting channel to suit HV9796 flexible LED 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 a mounting channel does

A channel gives flexible strip a straight, fixed line to sit in. Left to its own devices, flexible strip follows whatever is behind it: every dip in a surface, every high spot in a substrate, and every place the adhesive lets go. In a channel it holds a line, and a line is what the eye reads as deliberate.

It also protects the run. The strip sits down inside the section rather than proud of the surface, so it is out of the way of knocks, cleaning and anything sliding past it.

This channel is plastic rather than aluminium. Plastic is lighter, cheaper and easier to work with, and it will not corrode - which is why it suits damp positions and jobs where the run has to follow an awkward line.

What plastic does not do is move heat. On a run that will be on for long stretches, or in a warm space, an aluminium channel is the better choice for how the strip ages. For intermittent or decorative use, plastic is perfectly sound.

The bendable version

This is the bendable channel, supplied in two half-lengths. A standard channel is rigid and can only run straight; this one is made to be curved on site, so a run can follow an arc, a curved joinery edge or a rounded corner without breaking into short mitred sections.

Bend it gradually and by hand rather than forcing a tight radius in one place. A channel bent sharply keeps a visible kink, and the strip inside it will show that kink as a bright or dark spot.

Working with it

Cut it to length before the strip goes in, and de-burr the cut end - a sharp edge inside a channel is exactly where a silicone-jacketed strip gets nicked as it is pushed home.

This is supplied in 1 metre lengths, so work out how many the run needs and allow for the fact that joins are more visible partway along a straight run than they are at a corner or a natural break.

⚠ Channels are sized to a particular strip profile. Confirm that yours is HV9796 flexible LED strip before ordering - a strip that is a millimetre too wide will not seat, and one that is too narrow will not stay put.

Frequently asked questions

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