Choose LED Power Supply or power adapter?

Both LED power supply and power adapter are widely used for driving LED strip light. How to choose the suitable one? Depend on the project scale and installation way. Many users intend to find a led strip driver for 5m or 10m LED strips.

Here we have to explain that it is not the LED strip length that determines what led power supply driver to choose, however is the total wattage of the LED strip, we all know LED strip lights are designed with different wattage per meter or per foot.

The basic principle is: if you need at most a 16.4ft (about 5 meter) LED strip or two 5 meter low-power LED strips (total 10m LED strip, such as 30W x 2= 60W), you can choose the led strip power adapter, due to it is easy to wire and install.

For example, install the LED strip light under cabinet for 6.56ft (2m) or 9.84ft (3m) long, the output wattage of a power adapter is enough for support power for the strip. Usually we also would not love to see the strip lights led transformer, the power adapter happen to be small, it is easy to hide even for limited places.

If you would like to install more and longer run LED strips,  switching power supply is a better choice, in general, the switching power supply is relatively large in power output, is able to provide enough power for multiple or long run LED strips. Switching power supplies also perform better for large scale projects and are more efficient in power conversion.

Welcome to have a kindly visit to our website www.smarts-electronics.com, www.swinpower.com for more details about led strip power adapter or led strip driver.