LED Strip Connectors 2 Pin/4 Pin/5 Pin LED Strip Accessories Quick and Easy Installation LED Strip Lighting Connector Alternative to Soldering

To avoid damage and a lot of frustration, anyone planning to install LED strip lights should first know the best way to make connections to the strips. If poor connections are made, lights will flicker, go off unexpectedly or worse, not work at all. Unfortunately, many mistakes are made within this step but the good news is that connection issues are simple fix to fix or avoid with the right strip connectors.

The LED strip connectors in this guide will help you to:

1. Connect two strips together, end-to-end to make a longer length
2. Run a gap in between your strip lights
3. Connect power leads to an LED strip
4. Make small connections around corners

LED strip connectors provide a quick-connect solution that lets people avoid having to use a solder iron. If you do have a solder iron, or want to buy one, then we recommend soldering as the most reliable option. In fact, here is a quick guide on soldering your LED connections.

While soldering is very reliable, it can take a lot of time if you have many different connections to make. That is why LED strip light solderless connectors work wonders to make numerous connections with ease. In this tutorial, we will go over how to use the strip connectors properly, to their full potential.


 

Connecting to LED Strips

The connectors are easy to connect onto a strip end that has been cut. The connector will have 2-4 sharp teeth sticking straight up, the strip will slide in above these teeth:

1. Make sure to lift the clear plastic cover and slide the strip in until it hits the backstop, it should sit under the lowest clear tab as shown in the picture.
2. Once it is in as far as it will go, push the tab down making sure each side clicks into place.
3. Once you click it down the teeth should pierce up through the bottom of the copper pads on the strip, making for a solid connection. I lifted the tab here to show you how the teeth pierce the copper connection points.

Connecting Strip Connector to Wire

These solderless connectors work best with 20 AWG stranded wire. There is no need to strip the wires before connecting.

1. Make sure to lift the clear cover and slide the wires in as far as they can. Make sure you color code your wires or make sure they all line up. We use red for positive and black for negative. RGB connectors will have 4 wires as stated earlier.
2. Once the wires are sitting above the grooves click the cap down. For the wire side it is best to use a set of pliers to help click the connector down all the way, it takes some force!
3. If you're having trouble with wires moving around, try first pushing the wires into the slots a little more so they do not move when you try to clip the cap down.
4. You now have a solid connection to wires and can run them to your power source or to another section of strip!

Connecting Strip Connector to RGB LED Strip




 

Run a larger gap in your application

Say we are doing an undercabinet kitchen project and you want to span a gap where your stove or sink is. To do this all you would need are two strip-to-wire connectors and enough 20-gauge stranded wire to run your gap. You will put a connector on the end of each strip you are connecting and then connect the wires into the grooves as we show above.