COB LED light strips are increasingly becoming popular. Due to the obvious advantages including soft light without dark area, more accurate mixing of light and color and lower power consumption, furthermore, as its technology matures and corresponding costs decrease, traditional SMD LED strips will be replaced by COB strips more and more. So this article describes some best connectors for various COB LED strips.
1. Why do you need COB LED strip connectors?
A continuously fluorescent glue strip as a diffusion mask covers on the circuit board of the COB strip, so the soldering pad for connection must be arranged in narrow space of the PCB on both sides of the COB strip. Thus the pad size is limited and it can only be designed as a narrow strip shape, which makes it difficult to weld with the soldering iron. But it's much easier if you use a specifc solderless connector. Using COB connectors can save time and cost of manual welding and reduce the cost of your customer services. So many small light projects can be finished easily if you only give customers the connector and the Manual.
2. Different COB strips and the best-matched connectors.
Currently, there are a growing number of COB strip types including different descriptions, such as waterproof ratings and methods, widths, lights and colors. The following are some fine COB strip connectors recommended for diverse strips.
2-1. Single Color Non-waterproof IP20.
This COB strip light catogery includes more selection of PCB width and the high quality COB LED connector for this type of strip lights are listed below.
5mm 2 Pin IP20
Connection Types Available: strip to power, strip to strip, strip to strip brider Item NO.: BCI5XB-2W, BCI5BXB-2W, BCI5BB-2
6mm 2 Pin IP20
Coming soon...
8mm 2 Pin IP20
Connection Types Available: strip to power, strip to strip, strip to strip brider Item NO.: BCI5XB-2W, BCI5BXB-2W, BCI5BB-2
10mm 2 Pin IP20
Connection Types Available: strip to power, strip to strip, strip to strip brider Item NO.: BCI10XB-2W, BCI10BXB-2W, BCI10BB-2
2-2. Single Color Heat Thrink Tube Waterproof IP67.
Due to high defective rate in production surface glue coating is not a suitable way for COB strip light to make waterproof. Alternatively heat thrink tube is a more applicable method to do that without increasing its volumn. The adapted splicers for this category come from Hippo-M series which are initially designed for high density SMD LED strip light.
8mm 2 Pin for Heat Thrink Tube
10mm 2 Pin for Heat Thrink Tube
2-3. Single Color Solid Tube Waterproof IP68.
This type of COB strip light can be used outdoor as decoration lighting purpose. Both wall washer and outline lighting are applicable. And the products for this category are listed below as waterproof COB LED strip connector. They can both work outdoor.
8mm PCB / 10mm Tube 2 Pin for Solid Tube
10mm PCB / 12mm Tube 2 Pin for Solid Tube
Connection Types Available: strip to power, strip to strip, strip to strip brider Item NO.: SDN10XB-2GW, SDN10BXB-2GW, SDN10BB-2
2-4. Dual Color CCT Tunable Non-waterproof IP20.
The width of COB CCT LED Tape light is mostly 10mm.
10mm 3 Pin IP20
Connection Types Available: strip to power, strip to strip, strip to strip brider Item NO.: BCI10XB-3W, BCI10BXB-3W, BCI10BB-3
2-5. RGB Non-waterproof IP20.
There're 10mm and 12mm COB RGB LED Strip currently. The workable RGB COB LED Strip Connectors for the both are listed as below.
10mm 4 Pin IP20
Connection Types Available: strip to power, strip to strip, strip to strip brider Item NO.: BCI10XB-4W, BCI10BXB-4W, BCI10BB-4
12mm 4 Pin IP20
Coming Soon
3. Conclusion
Below table lists the COB strip light connectors series from Onlumi
| IP Rating of COB Strip | Available Width | Pin Quantity | Onlumi Series |
| For IP68 Solid Tube | 8mm(PCB)/10mm(Tube), 10mm(PCB)/12mm(Tube) | 2 Pins | Outdoor Solid |
| For IP67 Heat Shrink Tube | 8mm, 10mm | 2 Pins | Hippo-M |
| For IP20 Non-waterproof | 5mm, 6mm, 8mm, 10mm, 12mm | 2 Pins, 3 Pins, 4 Pins | Beetle Clip Invisible |
COB LED strips are developing, thus in the future we will see new design for this category. As the leading LED strip connector supplier in this field, we will keep standing at the forefront of the market and continue to provide high quality COB LED strip connecting solutions to further help the industry grow. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions about COB led strip connector.
