Pin & Socket Strip for Philips Hue LightStrip Plus
Do you have offcuts of Philips Hue LightStrip Plus? We'd like to buy them for £3.50 per 33cm.
Whilst £3.50 alone might not sound immediately beneficial to you, the idea is to convert these offcuts into functioning plug and play extensions, at lengths of 33cm and 66cm. It will allow us to sell them here, giving both you and other like minded customers an ideal solution with minimal effort and the added benefit of reducing wastage.
Compatibility
There are 4 versions of Philips Hue LightStrip, with differing connections. There are 3 Revisions of Lightstrip Plus, and there is also a Gradient Lightstrip.
Please ensure this cable is compatible with your LightStrip.
V2
Mid 2015
6 Pin
••••••
V3
Mid 2017
6 Pin
••••••
V4
Mid 2020
6 Pin
••••••
GRADIENT
Late 2021
4 Pin
••••
?
?
Alternatives
This is a custom, made to order 6 pin LightStrip Plug connector and a 6 pin LightStrip Socket connector for Philips Hue LightStrip Plus. This is to add a Male Plug to the start of a LightStrip offcut and a female socket to the end of a cut LightStrip. Alternatively you could make your own spacer cable between 2 Hue LightStrips. The pin strips and the Sockets are both White. The male pins as-well as the inside of the female sockets are gold plated.
Why throw away LightStrip offcuts you could use elsewhere for a minimum cost? These will help you to convert an offcut of Philips Hue LightStrip Plus to an Extension LightStrip. Alternatively you can use a
Snap Connector available here.
Most other pin strips sold on ebay are of the wrong pitch size (2.54mm Pitch Spacing, rather than what is actually required).
Please note that these pins are intended to be soldered to the lightstrip. You cannot connect 2 lightstrips back to back with these pins, unless one of the lightstrips is upside down to the other. This is because one of the lightstrips would be backwards. If you would like to connect 2 Lightstrips back to back you will need a small Offcut Cable that you can twist so that the lightstrips are the same way up. You can get an
Offcut Cable here.
Male & Female LightStrip Connector Kit
Directions
The pins will need to be soldered to a cut end. This will then add a male plug to the start of a LightStrip and a female socket to the end of a LightStrip.
It is recommended that rather than cutting the strip at the cut line, you instead take them apart with a soldering iron. This will give you more surface area to solder with.