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Re: LED strips exposed: your advice?

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Originally Posted by mrnoble View Post
Two rookie members of our team took on the task of creating a light show using multiple strips of individually addressable LEDs, such as these:

https://www.adafruit.com/products/306

They intended to mount them to the robot frame with Velcro, but found the weatherproof sheath didn't stick, so they took the lights out of the sheath.

Considering that each light is now essentially a voltage- carrying circuit, would these strips be in violation? I understand you're not official in your opinions, but I value them anyway.
Those are the exact lights we used last year. I would put them back in the sheath and just zip tie them down if possible. They stay pretty safe that way, we even had them on moving parts and we had very few problems.