Plastic Mounting Channel to Suit 10mm x 18mm IP68 Haviflex - 950mm Length

Plastic Mounting Channel to Suit 10mm x 18mm IP68 Haviflex - 950mm Length

This is a plastic mounting channel to suit 10mm x 18mm IP68 Haviflex - 950mm Length 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.

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 10mm x 18mm IP68 Haviflex - 950mm Length strip before ordering - a strip that is a millimetre too wide will not seat, and one that is too narrow will not stay put.

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