I really need advice from an electrician ASAP. please help me? Im so confused

[DPG]

Maplin are no longer. B&Q possibly yes. Also either the Range or Home Bargains sell them I think.

 

[plugsandsparks]

If you go to Eyre and Ellison in Chesterfield, you can walk out with them, they use PowerLED components, so far very good.

 

[Carla]

its the RGBW ones I'm looking to get as the white on them is pure unlike the tinted white on regular RGB led strips

 

[Carla]

If you go to Eyre and Ellison in Chesterfield, you can walk out with them, they use PowerLED components, so far very good.

If you go to Eyre and Ellison in Chesterfield, you can walk out with them, they use PowerLED components, so far very good.

i doubt the range would sell 20 meters of RGBW as its quite a big strip. i live in essex but i could give the one in Chesterfield a ring, maybe it can be done over the phone and posted. thanks guys

 

[Carla]

I'm with @SparkyChick posts. You pay your money you take your chance. You have to be careful with Chinese electrical goods.
Go with @Midwest advice and get them from a reputable dealer.

Getting back on topic a mate of mine disregarded my advise not to go with Chinese downlights from fleabay because he was too tight to pay the £300 quid odd for the Collingwood units I wanted to supply....they all failed within a year. Cost him a lot more than £300 quid in the end.

if i used a different electrician would they generally get them from a reputable supplier or would most use chinese products? i could tell an electrician i want them from a reputable supplier but id have no way of knowing if they would actually do that or not

 

[Midwest]

my electrician wanted to buy them from china. id like to get them myself from a reputable supplier but i dont know where. would it be somewhere like maplin or b&q ?

Goggle is your friend there, just avoid ebay. Simples.

 

[Midwest]

if i used a different electrician would they generally get them from a reputable supplier or would most use chinese products? i could tell an electrician i want them from a reputable supplier but id have no way of knowing if they would actually do that or not

Being on the end of things that have gone Pete Tong, its far simpler to deal with a UK based retailer.

 

[Carla]

Being on the end of things that have gone Pete Tong, its far simpler to deal with a UK based retailer.

Goggle is your friend there, just avoid ebay. Simples.

yeah i plan to but what worries me is my electrician wont do that and id have no way to know

 

[plugsandsparks]

Eyre and elliston have a branch over the border at enfield and Edmonsons have one near Romford. Strips come in 5M rolls, give them a call for 4 rolls, probably two drivers and two controllers. You can get some tech support from them, to a limit , 20M at 12V is not something i have contemplated, in fact, you should be looking at 24V and get the supplier to match the strip length to the driver.

 

[Carla]

Eyre and elliston have a branch over the border at enfield and Edmonsons have one near Romford. Strips come in 5M rolls, give them a call for 4 rolls, probably two drivers and two controllers. You can get some tech support from them, to a limit , 20M at 12V is not something i have contemplated, in fact, you should be looking at 24V and get the supplier to match the strip length to the driver.

so if i got 4 rolls of 5 meters, i could attach them all together and cover the 20m room. does that mean at each point where i connect another 5 lm strip i would have to have an adapter n cord running down the wall? i planed to have the cable n adapter run down the corner of the walls and box it in to hide it