HV9791-ALU - Aluminium Channel to suit HV9791 Side Bend Flexible Neon LED Strip

Aluminium Channel to suit HV9791 Side Bend Flexible Neon LED Strip

This is an aluminium mounting channel to suit HV9791 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.

Because this channel is aluminium, it does something a plastic one cannot: it draws heat out of the strip. Heat is what ages LEDs, and it is why two identical strips can look quite different after a few years - the one that had somewhere to send its heat holds its brightness and its colour, and the one that did not fades unevenly.

That makes aluminium the better choice on any run that will be on for long stretches, or that sits in a warm space.

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.

Work out the total length of the run 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 HV9791 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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