Linear LED components / Austin, Texas / ships US-wide
We sell 24V LED strip lights, 48 V long-run strip, aluminum channel, constant-voltage drivers, connectors and dimming controls to cabinetmakers, electricians and homeowners who would rather get it right once. You send run lengths. We send back a load sheet and a written quote in USD, priced per reel, per length or per unit.
Module 01 / The load sheet
Every inquiry gets the same four steps on paper before anyone quotes a dollar. It takes us about as long as it takes you to read this. It is also the reason the parts on the list actually work together when the box is opened.
Stop 01 / Measure
Metres of lit length, one figure per run. A kitchen with a 3.1 m wall and a 2.4 m wall is two runs, not 5.5 m, because the corner usually hides a gap and often a second feed. We also need the distance from the outlet or junction box to the first lit end. That feed distance is what most people forget, and it is where voltage gets lost.
7.2 m lit length / 4 m from driver to strip
Stop 02 / Strip
Under a cabinet, 10 W/m of COB strip lights a counter properly and shows no dots even without a deep diffuser. Coves and indirect washes can take the 14.4 W/m SMD2835. Anything longer than 10 m on one feed goes to the 48 V strip. Multiply watts per metre by lit length and you have the load.
72 W 7.2 m × 10 W/m
Stop 03 / Driver
Divide the load by 0.8 and round up to a driver we stock. A 100 W driver gets 80 W of load. Not 95. Not "it'll be fine". Drivers run hot at full rating, and a hot driver inside a closed cabinet is the flicker we get emailed about a year after install.
100 W 72 W ÷ 0.8 = 90 W needed
Stop 04 / Feed
Current is watts over volts. Drop is twice the feed length, times the current, times the wire's resistance per metre. If the answer is over 3 %, the far end goes warm and dull. Fix it with a heavier gauge or a shorter feed, and the sheet says which. Our LED strip voltage drop calculator does the same sum.
2.1 % 0.50 V lost on 4 m of 18 AWG
Module 02 / Catalog
The strip clips fit the strip widths we sell. The diffuser snaps into all three channels. Both drivers are 24 V constant voltage. That is deliberate: a short catalog where nothing on it is a trap.
Every part carries a price basis, never a sticker: per 5 m reel, per 2 m length, per unit, per pack, per kit. All in USD.
Open the full indexModule 03 / Price basis
No figure on this site is a binding price. The written quote is, once we confirm it.
Strip is priced by the reel, channel and diffuser by the 2 m length, drivers and controls per unit. The number on your quote moves with four things: how many metres you need, which strip width and colour temperature, whether a run needs a second feed or a heavier lead, and where it ships. We would rather quote one reel than sell you two and have you store the second in a drawer. A 5.2 m run is the exception people argue about. It cannot be done from one 5 m reel, so the sheet lists two and tells you what the 4.8 m offcut is good for.
| Category | Quoted per | What moves the figure |
|---|---|---|
| LED strip | 5 m reel, 20 m reel for 48 V | Reel count, width, colour temperature |
| Channel, diffuser | 2 m length | Number of lengths, cut-to-length requests |
| Drivers | Unit | Plain or phase-dim, quantity |
| Connectors, leads | Pack of 10 or 5 | Strip width, pack count |
| Controls | Unit or set | 0-10V or tunable white |
| Kits | Kit | Run length or tread count |
Module 04 / Worked sheet
This is what comes back when you send run lengths. Same rows, same order, your numbers in place of these.
The customer asked for "a strong strip and whatever power supply". They had a 60 W unit in the basket somewhere else. On this run it would have sat at 120 % of rating and died inside a month. LED strip driver sizing is not an opinion, it is division.
Load
7.2 m × 10 W/m (ZV-S24C)
Driver needed at 80 %
72 W ÷ 0.8
Driver specified
Next stocked size up: ZV-D100, 80 W working
Current on the feed
72 W ÷ 24 V
Feed drop
2 × 4 m × 3 A × 0.02095 Ω/m
Drop as a share of 24 V
0.50 V ÷ 24 V
Module 05 / From inquiry to box
A person at the counter reads it. Not a bot, not a sales queue. Details on the how to order page.
Lengths in metres, where the power comes in, what the space is. A phone photo helps more than a paragraph.
Out: your inquiry
Watts, driver at 80 %, feed drop under 3 %. If something will not work, we say so before we price it.
Out: load sheet
A parts list with quantities and a written quote. If a run needs a second feed, the sheet says where.
Out: written quote
Nothing is charged or reserved until you confirm in writing. Then parts are picked, checked and packed.
Out: boxed parts
Module 06 / Straight answers
If you want the cheapest strip on the internet and a driver sized to the watt, we are not your shop. If you want the line to still be even in three years, keep reading.
Because a reel price without the driver, leads and channel it needs tells you nothing about what the job costs. Every part shows its basis: per 5 m reel, per 2 m length, per unit. The written quote comes back with the load sheet and is binding once we confirm it in writing.
No. We pick parts and ship them. Low-voltage work after the driver is well within a careful homeowner. Mains wiring to the driver is a job for a licensed electrician, and plenty of our inquiries come from electricians, see installers.
No. We do not sell 12 V strip. Past five metres it goes amber at the far end, and nobody wants a kitchen that fades. At 24 V the same run carries half the current and a quarter of the loss.
Probably. Most flicker we get asked about is a driver cooking inside a cabinet with no air, or a driver loaded past 90 %. Send the strip length, the driver rating off its label and where it is mounted.
Yes. The sheet for one reel takes a few minutes and still catches the undersized driver. There is no minimum order.
Module 07 / Counter
Metres, where the power comes in, and what you are lighting. We reply with a load sheet, a parts list and a quote in USD.