HitLights LED Light Strip Connector, 8mm Single Color 3528 - 6 Inch Any Angle Strip to Strip, 12 Pack

Good buy it works be careful sliding the strip into the connector it can be too tight you might need a small screw driver to help it go into the slot.

Item worked great use these to create a daisy chain of led lights under my tool box for a soft red glow. Had to snip them and extend the wires. Wires cut, crimp,and solder well. I will warn the wires are very very small they have to be like 24 gauge they are hard to do normal crimps. There also touchy to solder but the actual copper itself takes solder very well. Also have to pay attention to polarity when hooking up connectors. I had to reverse my wires on one set. Overall I would buy again. My only gripe I wish the wire was a little longer

I built a lighting project with Hitlight strips and end connectors about three years ago and had 100% success making a total of 6 end connections. However, a product change in the 300-LED strip and/or the end connectors that I recently purchased caused me lots of frustration and several wasted connectors before I figured out a work-around. The 300-LED strip from three years ago had a brown backing/circuit board film. The recently-purchased 300-LED strip came with a white, thinner. more flexible backing. When I tried to push the end of the new strip into an end connector, the white backing was too flimsy to be forced under the connector's contacts. It wrinkled up instead of sliding under the contacts. I first tried to ease some of the tension on the connectors by forcing a thin knife blade under each contact. This allowed the film strip to slide into place. However, the lights would not light. I had ruined the connector with the knife blade. I finally figured out that if I set the white backing in place next to the contacts then used a very small 1/8" blade straight screwdriver to help ease the film under the contacts then everything worked fine. See photo below. Slide the white backing strip into the end connector until the two copper dots just touch the contacts. Then position a small screwdriver on an angle as shown and, exerting considerable downward pressure on the strip, work the strip all the way under the connectors.

performs as expected. a little touchy to connect sometimes, but helped me finish a project. Much easier than soldering.

Nice product.

I've never done anything with LED lighting or wiring lighting before. When I first started with these I became so frustrated. The leads inside the clips were so tight that the LED strip would "buckle" and "bunch up" when I attempted to slide the ribbon under them. I watched a few videos on youtube. Here's what I would recommend if you're having the same problem. 1) Peel just enough of the adhesive backing off of the LED strip such that the amount peeled off is equal to the space you'll need to tuck it into the jumper. In other words, peel just enough off that it'll fit in the jumper. 2) Wiggle. Wiggle that sucker. Wiggle it slowly left and right, eventually it will slide under the leads. Keep wiggling until the contacts are well under the leads and then snap the connector shut. 3) Keep everything plugged in. You won't hurt yourself. You can grab the exposed positive and negative end on a plugged in strip and you won't electrocute yourself. This is important because you DO NOT want to keep opening and closing the connector attempting to re-seat a connection. It puts little divits in the leads on the LED strip and makes it harder and harder for them to conduct. If at all possible you want to slide the LED strip into the connector (while plugged in) wiggle it until it is properly seated, and then snap it shut. Hope that helps.

These connectors do NOT connect. They do not work. I will be returning them for a refund. Sheerness.... what does that even mean? Oh well I gave it a zero too. Value for money. Well, since they do not work they have zero value and are a waste of money and more importantly a waste of time to experience a product that does not do what I bought it to do. Now if have to mess around with sending it back. What a hassle! I fiddled with the connectors again. This is what I recommend. Do NOT cut the lights on the cut line which leaves equal parts of the copper connection points on both haves. Cut it to leave almost ALL of the copper to connect under the metal tabs. This gives the most area to use as a contact point. It works very well. I also tried shimming the strip to make it thicker as others suggested and sometimes got that to work. But a wrong wiggle and the lights go off. Poor connection! So I recommend cutting to the far side of the connector tabs instead of down the middle. Even with wiggles the connection is solid. I have my new string attached to the first set I ordered and have them plugged in my room. They go around the wall and out to the hall. Up over and around the washer and dryer in it’s closet area lighting our hall across from the bathroom. I turn it down as a night light so I have a faint glow to get up and use the restroom in the night. A better product would be one that comes on automatically low light And STAYS ON VIA A backup battery during a power outage. I will do a search for such lights. I give the product only three stars because you have to fiddle with it and NOT FOLLOW the directions (video) to get it to work.

These worked well for their intended purpose, greatly simplifying an under-counter LED lighting installation. I will be ordering more of them for future projects. They are not well suited to modification as the electrical contacts are held in place by a plastic pin melted during manufacturing assembly, but were great for bending LED ribbons around corners, as jumpers between cabinets, and power pass-through from inside to outside the cabinet.