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

[Carla]

I really need advice. I know nothing about electrics so i am looking for someone to give me some basic answers and help.

I want to put lighting around my ceiling. I need 20meters, I found 20 meters of led strip lights on ebay, they come in 4 rolls of 5 meters totaling 20 meters.

It says the specs are 12v 10a and 120watts (please see attached photo) I have tried asking the seller for advice but he isnt making much sense.

basically i need to know if the 10a power supply is enough to power 120watts (20meters) of led lights? im worried about it not being enough and they might over heat. im assuming it must be ok otherwise they wouldn't sell the power supply with the 20m set but i just need to make sure it is suffice to power it.

 

[telectrix]

Wot about Ma'am, an address for Royalty or a senior officer

creep.

 

[Midwest]

... just don't capitulate to the feminists and use Ms. I HATE that!

I'll call anyone, what they want to be called.

I knew a bloke once, who called himself Richard Cohead, we called him Dick & his last name was spelt Cockhead. What were his parents thinking?

 

[Pete999]

mademoiselle is more appropriate. i don'think she's married. .

I'm spoken for so that's me out of the frame then, can't stand change and after 48 years what use would I be?

 

[Deleted member 9648]

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.

 

[Spoon]

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.

 

[Spoon]

I'll call anyone, what they want to be called.

Please call me "Spoon, the stud of the UK" from now on...

 

[streamer]

my guy doing the job says i need 15m in living room but told me to get 20m roll.

If somebody is doing the job for you and you are unsure what to order, get him to supply the lights.

 

[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.

how do i find a reputable dealer in ny area

 

[streamer]

how do i find a reputable dealer in ny area

Get your electrician to supply them

 

[Carla]

Get your electrician to supply them

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 ?

 

[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