man... no one puts in the amount of work, and the engineering/scientific approach like you do. You've definitely found your voice when it comes to accurate reviews. Thanks so much for keeping the quality of these reviews so high!!

@michiganmitten

2 жыл бұрын

agreed 👍

@davidamoritz

2 жыл бұрын

You obviously have never been to Project Farm's channel

@FrankGraffagnino

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidamoritz I watch project farm all the time.

@zachwerrlein2768

2 жыл бұрын

@@FrankGraffagnino nerd

@user-bp1us2kq3d

Жыл бұрын

definitely. you could also ask your electrician. but definitely.

The fact that he pays for everything out of his own pocket and does not have sponsored reviews wins my vote. Great to have a source for unbiased and honest reviews!

@mt7810

4 ай бұрын

he’s an affiliate so he makes bank off the purchases in the links

@eltonnoway7864

4 ай бұрын

@@mt7810 True, but that doesn't mean his reviews are biased or dishonest. The Amazon purchase price is the same to a buyer whether they find the product their own or use one of his affiliate links. When someone clicks and completes a purchase via one of his links he receives a commission. Amazon commissions range from 1% to 20% depending on the product category.

I think I just sprained my brain trying to absorb all that info. But, you've given us tons of information and your recommendations. I would have used trial-and-error and you've eliminated that. Thanks again for the thorough work.

@korg47237

2 жыл бұрын

Hah agreed. Think I'll just write down the recommendations at then end for future reference.

@williamterry3177

2 жыл бұрын

Don't bother to write anything down, show your support by just clicking his link.

@DRacer90

2 жыл бұрын

ORRRR, you can just add his video on your favorites link (like I did) LOL

@ryanyeackley3627

2 жыл бұрын

Wait a Hawkeye fan can eat corn and learn. Iowans are evolving. I’m scared. But agree amazing content

@a..d5518

2 жыл бұрын

@@DRacer90 or do both, use his link and save this video for reference when it’s time to build your lights.

Lighting designer here. A little tip... if you get the deep channel and line the back side (not the actual diffusion side) with slightly wrinkled aluminum foil, it will assist with diffusion and will improve light intensity. But it does take some work.

@PandaPuppyFTW

Жыл бұрын

Meat hammer on carpet or cushion, softly, to quickly "dimple" the foil.

@RealJerb

Жыл бұрын

What about metal tape? like they use on HVAC. Reflective enough? How significant would it help vs just bare aluminum, which is somewhat reflective

@pancake8133

Жыл бұрын

@@RealJerb The metal tape will help improve the brightness but not the diffusion. You want the wrinkles to help scatter the light more. Alternatively, mask off the outside surfaces and spray the inside of the channel with matte white spray paint so you can keep a dark exterior with an efficient interior reflective surface. Matte paint will scatter the light more than glossy paint.

@dporrasxtremeLS3

Жыл бұрын

@@pancake8133 Perfect!!! Great guidence and experience! Thanks!

@kittycat1302

Жыл бұрын

@@pancake8133 Is it necessary for function to keep a dark exterior or is that just for aesthetics? And we are talking for use without a diffuser correct?

It's just such a relief to not having to buy a product and being worried about it being the right choice for the job. Comparing the most used items within a genre and comparing them the way you do is simply brilliant. I thank you, for me not having to waste time.

@dporrasxtremeLS3

Жыл бұрын

And MONEY!!!

Fantastic video!! Ended up buying several different types a few months back and settled on the deep aluminium + spotless cover as well. They're indoors and I've had no issues 👍

At last a comprehensive breakdown on such an important yet usually overlooked issue. Excellent work. Much appreciated.

I needed this so much right now. No retail shop really sells these so such a risk buying online without any good information. Thanks!

Just stumbled across your channel. You answered a question that had been burning in the back of my mind for Months now! Ive been too scared to do exactly what you just did in this review for me. God bless you kind sir... A token of my gratitude for the time & money you just saved me. 😁

These types of videos are best when I have to pause it to keep up, instead of twiddling my thumbs waiting for someone to get to the point. The pacing of this video is fantastic: quick, to the point. Subscribed right away. Keep it up!

I can't thank you enough for posting this. It is incredibly well made and saved me a lot of time and money!

I really appreciate this video. I spent hours doing research and fretting about which aluminum channel to buy... this was such an incredible help. I went with the U108 and am super happy with the result.

Oh my, this is probably the best thought-through video on this topic out there! It's pure genius! Thank you!

Ahhh! Where was this a year ago? Thanks for doing this. I bought and returned a few because I couldn’t find the right ones. I ended up with some decent ones that I’m happy enough with. I hope,this helps so many others.

Thank you and keep up the incredible work. I found your channel a couple years ago when looking for the permanent holiday led setups. I just watched your golf simulator video and was blown away.

@TheHookUp

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Adam! I was/am pretty proud of the golf sim video. It’s a shame more people didn’t watch it. lol 😭

Thanks for The Hook Up on LED lighting installation options. This has answered a lot of questions I've had. Keep up the good work, much appreciated!

Thanks, your videos are so thorough and unbiased. Your teaching skills definitely come through in your videos as you impart heaps of info in a really easy format to watch. Really appreciate the effort and time this must take.

@dporrasxtremeLS3

Жыл бұрын

YES!

@djosearth3618

3 ай бұрын

fully agree :)

I've got an all-silicon diffuser (extruded silicon). These types do a "OK" job in diffusing, and you can get really creative with them, when it comes to shape.

Your videos are so good. I've watched only 2 of them and I feel like I know almost everything I need to know about LED strips.

Really useful to see the brightness comparison along with the effectiveness at hiding individual spots

When I installed LED channels on my house I was not chasing a perfectly diffused look, but I was looking for a channel that had room to run at least a 14awg power bus wire for injections. I ended up with 15mm high by 18mm wide channels that had room for the wire and do a decent job of diffusing my 30/m LED's. The other thing to note is the viewing distance, outside from a couple of houses away they look fully diffused.

this is amazing, thank you for the work and awesome that you added tiny pictures to the descriptions, it's way easier to follow!

Straight forward. right to the point. side by side examples and every kind of test that i would have personally wanted performed,. amazing video! keep it up.

You killed this. Thanks for putting in the work and sharing with the rest of us!

i enjoyed every single second of this video. this is a dream come true for someone who cares about lighting like I do. thank you SO much

The amount of detail you put into your testing is the type of information I enjoy. Subbed

Thank you so much for making this video. I'm doing KZread's most in-depth Home Theater build at the moment and I literally just released a video of me scrapping 60 LED backlit tv's just to get the back light diffuses as well as the acrylic diffusion layers out of to use in my audio diffuses, which I also want to have LED lights running around the perimeter of. I didn't even know these things existed. So you have done the hard work if I choose to go this route. Appreciate it 🙂👍

@DIYDumpRat

2 жыл бұрын

BTW I probably will go this route now. Looks way easier than sticking a single diffuser over each LED 😅

Thanks for this, I am planning a home bar and will be installing 8 strips, 32" long, one per shelf, using the angle bracket to light up the bottles. I was fairly sure I wanted a denser diffuser, but now I know I also want the curved diffuser and at least the 60 light density.

Excellent video, and its nice to see some real science and data in this!! Great work, and thank you for handling all the "leg work" on this research for us!

Exactly the info and demo I needed. Thanks for creating this. Will definitely use your referral links if/when I go ahead with my project.

thank you so much! the previous tenant of out flat left an ugly LED Strip around the biggest room. My bf didnt want to have the hassle and we both had no knoledge about LEDs before this, but i knida knew that they are expensive and wanted to reuse the thing. Thanks to you i understood what i need to get and mount in order to reuse the thing and have a nice looking living room wall :)

Thank you very much for the time, effort & cost required to do this breakdown! It is very much appreciated sir

Thank you for doing doing this. Trying to figure this out through Amazon reviews and pics was pretty much impossible.

You put so much amount of work into this video. Thank you very much.

This and your LED strip video together are outrageously helpful. Thanks dude.

Cool! Couple months late for my 150 meters of LEDs, but I'm happy with the brightness of the shallow channels.

Excellent videos. I feel so much better and educated in installing these lights! Thank you for making these videos.

great info. after already installing about 50 meters of LED in various channels and forms, I appearantly made no "violations" to your advice haha. the rule of thumb distance LED = distance diffuser is a good one to remember! thanks

Thanks for doing all this work! Greatly appreciated.

This is exactly the kind of information I need! Thanks for the work you put in for this.

Soo glad I bought the 60LED's/mtr! Very helpful vid thankyou.

Thank you Robert. Always great stuff.

Wow nice timing, for the past 2 weeks I've been searching for good diffusion channels with good thermals as well. Appreciate the reporting :)

my mind is spinning .. very timely for me .. thanks for your great efforts, timely, relevant, informative, …

Great Video as always rob.. and timely for me too with a new external WLED project on the drawing board..

Not sure about Amazon, but here in China there are a lot more options than just these too. PC diffuser comes in various colors and thickness qualities. For example, opal, milky, frosted.… 0.8mm, 1mm and 1.2mm thickness. And the bare aluminum profile isn't bare, it's anodized. Usually it's anodized silver although there are other anodization processes too. Great job actually trying all these out. I never had the time to do that. Appreciate your work on this. I was surprised about the "tent" diffuser

This was really interesting! It would be interesting to see comparisons against the ones from Aliexpress as there are dozens of other designs there, including shallow channels with extra thick covers, which would appear to get you better diffusion in a much shallower channel. They also have ones that fire the LED strip sideways, having it bounce off the side of the channel before hitting the cover, to further diffuse the light and allow lower density strips to be used. They also sell ones that are entirely white plastic which presumably would reflect even more light than the aluminium ones.

@user-tr2dh4xx6u

Жыл бұрын

Thicker diffuser = less light

Great review. Cudi out Bendable smokey grey covers. They come with a much more diffused look. Very similar to the white. But We've used the smoke covers a lot over the white diffused, as they blend in the best on home exteriors. Often times looks like a small shadow on just under the flashing or roof tiles...

I had been wanting to see this exact series of tests, so thanks!!

Never thought I'd find a video for exactly what I needed, great breakdown!

I needed to span a 1.5 metre gap between 2 kitchen cabinets so I chose the 45 degree angle channel and made a small dowel to slot into the triangular hole to join 2 pieces. That and offsetting the diffuser made a perfect joint. Can’t to pull ups on it but hey! It works.

Simply amazing. Your effort and time are much appreciated. Subscribed!

Well done for the effort put into this review. Saved many other people much head scratching and agonising

The most fantastic video I have ever seen in my life. Bravo.

I was thinking the same thing 1 week ago and now I found this. Amazing.

amazing coverage...thank you for making this video!

Yet another extremely thorough and generally great video!

Love these succinct, info-packed comparisons!

This is a stellar analysis. You are approaching Project Farm quality!

This is exactly what I want from a comparison review video, fantastic job

man this is an excellent study !! This is exactly what I needed a week ago installing my kitchen LED's. For the next project :D

Wow, that's what I call an awesome comparison! Great work, keep on going!

I bought the tented diffusers based off this video with the Govee M1s. Straight hotspots not matter what. Amazon reviews said hot spots but I went with it. Well, they all got sent back and I bought the spotless ones I was originally going to buy.

Thank you! I didn’t know what to call the LED diffusers to search Amazon. I’ve been watching a lot of mansion tours on Enes channel and see them in every home! They are so gorgeous! I have the LED tape, but can see the dots and definitely don’t want that look.

Wow - Great work ! I didn't even know anything about led diffusers until now. Thanks...

Damn, now this is a short, yet complete review. You even checked the brightness reduction. I am really looking forward to seeing more, now. I guess I´m just muting my boss on binge watch your channel while working at home 😀

Super thorough and answered all my questions! Thank you! And I'm happy to use your affiliate links.

What a great video man! Thanks for all that info!

@GustavoHernandez1

Жыл бұрын

Simon mi apa

This was really well done and comprehensive, thank you!

I just found your channel ... I wish I would have found it sooner, your videos and info are awesome and much appreciated!

This is such a good and informative video, many thanks for spending time and effort to help people choose correctly.

Answered every single question I had incredible video and presentation!

Best video ever on this subject. Thank you.

I'm looking for diffusers for my 50 led/m strip, and this is the video i always wanted to found!

Thank you for a very detailed review. I'd probably do the same thing you did, so you saved me quite some time and money.

This was so incredibly helpful, have been trying to figure out channels to diffuse led strips in our skoolie build and this answered all my questions and helped me find exactly what we needed! Thank you!

This is truly a Masterclass👏👏. Thank you Sir

Appreciate all your work on this!

I didn't even know I needed this video BUT WE ALL DO!! Saving this for purchase day!

Yay... I found a video showing me why my diffused lights show as spots and where I went wrong. Seriously though I'm a cheap skate and got some smart diffused shelf lights with Full RGB or white (which is why they have larger spacing as it's a 60 LED with alternating White and RGB to allow full control so only actually 30 LED useable at any one time). Good informative video, shame I found it a little late :)

Great video, Short to the point and provides enough detail!

Wow, this and your 7 Biggest LED Strip Light Mistakes video have answered a ton of my questions and misgivings about striplighting! Thanks for the great info, succinctly presented, I’m a subscriber now. I’m looking to replace two hardwired T5 CF under-counter fixtures, but I’m struggling to understand where people install the big power supply for strip lights in a retrofit like this. All the wiring is in the wall except at the switch and two fixture locations. The best I’ve come up with is to pull the Romex up through a hole in the bottom of my upper cabinet and try to build something to conceal the supply, especially since that location has glass doors on the cabinet. But that’s definitely going to look clunky no matter how much I try to conceal the place where wiring emerges from the wall and turns up into the cabinet, or the power supply itself (which I would be concerned about covering, for heat dissipation reasons.) But I’m surprised I can’t find any examples or recommendations for real-world solutions to this problem, that optimize aesthetics - all anyone has is functional wiring diagrams 🧐 Any pointers you can offer on locating the power supply so that I’m not upgrading part of my lighting system look while downgrading in another?

As always, a good video from you my friend, just the one I was expecting to be done. Regards from Mexico

OMG, thats exactly the information I needed. Thank you

i appreciate the work you've put in this review

Wow, thanks for making this!

Thanks for making this. Very informative and will be referenced.

Thank you so much!

Great work, and thank you for providing such a detailed video.

This is a very high quality video. Thank you.

Wow, this is so helpful!! Thank you so much!

ive been waiting for a video like this for so long....THANK YOU!

Very useful. Been searching for a video like this for a couple of months now. 👍🏾

You missed my favorite kind of profile: 20 mm wide angled. It's a bit harder to find but offers almost spotless diffusion at 60 led/m and it's perfect at 72 led/m because the distance to the diffuser is doubled. You can also fit 2 strips side by side, a good option if you want to do both primary lighting with a white or cct analog strip and effects with rgb digital strips. The hole in the back is also big enough to fit up to 3x12 awg wires which makes it actually usable for power injection.

Yooo this was next level. Thanks for all your hard work. Seriously!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻

Thank you so much for this video!

Just tossing it out there...what about polarized films or like Fresnel lenses in conjunction with diffusers, something like monitors use? Awesome video and thanks for sharing your findings!

Thank you!

Your Reviews are amazing, people don't need to go elsewhere

Deep channel still seems like the best option for me. I like my ambient lighting to be subtle and an extra 14% reduction in brightness compared to shallow channels seems not that big. I can see the argument for a shallow channel but my shallow channels won’t be exposed anyway. Unless someone goes dining under the furniture…