Unique LED lighting
Are you outside the United States and would like to give the FlexiDaisy Mounting Strip a try?
Feel free to reach out to us for a custom order. Flexible LED tape is used world wide with adhesive backing which can eventually fail and lead to falling LEDs.
Our mounting solution will get those lights back up where they belong for good.
Do you need help with an LED project?
Working on an interesting idea but you’re not sure how to bring together all the pieces?
Feel free to reach out to us using the Contact Us page or reach us directly at Derek.Matteson@FlexiDaisy.com
We’re always happy to help with any questions.
We can also put together any custom orders for your needs. Want a long run of LEDs or our patented FlexiDaisy mounting strip? We’re happy to put together a custom invoice for you.
So we’ve moved into a rental and that means no modifications right? Wrong!
FlexiDaisy mounting strips are less damaging to property than using the adhesive tape. Over the next several months we’ll be posting a few small projects that someone in a rental property can do in order to add the benefits of LED lighting to their homes.
First up, under counter lighting. How do people live without it?
Hello,
We’re back again with another update. I’ve been losing my mind trying to understand how anyone can live without LED under counter lighting.
Thankfully FlexiDaisy is here to help. Our mounting strip will hold LEDs in place with only a few common staples and you can easily take the LEDs with you when you move.
No tape goop to worry about no pealing them down off the wood or worrying about the strip peeling off on its own.
Get your FlexiDaisy mounting strip and give this simple project a try.
After some investigation into Schmitt trigger circuits. I gave up on them. I couldn’t quite get the trigger point right due to the battery voltage dropping and changing the point at which the trigger trip. So I switched over to using light levels as the trigger for the solar fountain pump. I found a great guide over at http://pcbheaven.com/circuitpages/Automated_Light_Switch/
The Pcbheaven guy was working on turning on LED’s to act as a back light at night, but I am looking to do the opposite. So I had to make some minor changes to his circuit. The opamp with hysteresis resistor will help to make sure that the fountain will stay on if a cloud goes by and the light level only dims partly. Check out PcbHeaven if you want to learn more about hysteresis their explanation video is very good.
Pink – I switched the first voltage divider order to change the circuit from coming on when it’s dark to coming on when it’s sunny.
Blue – I changed the output from the transistor to the fountain pump. In the final design from the video I actually put LED 1 back into the circuit so that I would have an indicator light to show when the pump was on. That way I’d be able to keep an eye on it to make sure it wasn’t running at night.
If you are paying close attention you might notice that my TinkerCad picture has the LED on the collector side of the transistor. I was told for a high current draw like a motor this is where it should be in the circuit. I attempted to run it like this and it worked with the LED, but it would not work with my fountain pump, so I had to change the circuit to have the motor on the emitter side of the transistor. Not sure why it behaved that way, but it works so I’m happy enough.
I’ve been working on a project to control a fountain pump with the surplus electricity from my 15W solar panel. The solar controller turns on my LED light strips which are held in place with the FlexiDaisy mounting strip so they don’t rely on the tape most LEDs use, but I want the extra energy to be used during the day to run a small fountain on the patio.
Once I have the circuit finalized I will upload the schematics to share with anyone who’s looking to upgrade their back yard environment.
We’ve made an arrangement with the guys over at 
They are now carrying our FlexiDaisy LED mounting hardware and RGB LED kits that work with it.
You can find them at
Murphy’s Surplus
401 N. JOHNSON AVE
EL CAJON, CA. 92020
PHONE: 619 444 7717
EMAIL: murphy@cts.com
HOURS MONDAY THRU SATURDAY
9 AM TO 5 PM
Thank you to the team over there for stocking our product. If you’re in the area and you can go check it out we highly recommend it. They’ve got all kinds of neat gear.
We’ve added individual reels of 5050 RGB LEDs to the store, if you add a reel to our LED lighting kit you can light up more than 30 feet of tape light!
If you order multiple reels at once we’ll provide our patented flexible mounting strip in one continuous length in order to give you a clean continuous look when your install is complete.
Don’t forget if you’d like something we don’t have please feel free to reach out to us and we’d be happy to send you a quote for any color or type of LEDs. We’ve filled a few order for white LEDs in kitchens so we’re looking to stock those next.
So LED tape light sizing got you down? What one’s brighter? What do those numbers mean?
Don’t worry we got you covered.
First the numbers are about the size of the LED chips themselves. Two examples are shown below. 3528 LEDs are named like that because the height of the chip is 3.5 mm by 2.8 mm wide. So 3.5 by 2.8, shorten it down and it’s 3528.
The 5050 chips are my favorite because they are easy since the height and width of the chip is 5.0 mm it’s easy to remember.
Sadly the chip size doesn’t tell you anything about the tape it’s mounted on. In our experience the 5050’s are usually mounted on a 10 mm tape, but the 3528’s are mounted on 8 mm tape. The current flexidaisy mounting strip is designed to work with 10 mm tape. So if you have LEDs already make sure they are on the right size tape to fit.
Now regarding what LEDs are brighter. That gets a little more complicated. Chips in the same size can have different brightness levels, power usage and 3528 or 5050 doesn’t describe how many LEDs are on the reel.
A good general rule is that bigger chips tend to be brighter and more LEDs on a reel tend to be brighter. Common numbers of LEDs at the moment are 150 or 300 LEDs on a reel.
Keep in mind that all that extra brightness usually means more power, so make sure your power supply is rated correctly if you aren’t buying a kit with one included.
We were fortunate enough to work on this pool project with a customer in Florida who wanted to replace some older LED lights that had gone bad in the sun. Click the pictures below to see the before and after pictures.
Thank you for your business and the pictures of your completed project!