Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I installed these lights in my daughters room a few days ago. For the price I paid for them they are fine. My daughter likes them alot. I only bought these lights after watching many review videos on You Tube about LED strip lights, the technology, the variations in quality, the pros and cons, and installation. I chose this specific light set because it is a single 50' strip. Other brands, and even other models by this same brand require attaching multiple strips to make 50 feet. I did not want to deal with additional connections or the visual clutter of multiple cords associated with multiple strips. The installation was fairly easy. I found it helpful to cut off the peeled backing paper every two to three feet. If I let it go longer than that long it added weight pulling on the installed part of the strip and it also got tangled with the remaining portion of the light strip. The adhesion seems very strong. A couple of times I had to peel it back a bit to straighten it out, and the tape actually pulled some paint off the wall. That being said, I followed the installation instructions and wiped the wall down with a mild cleaner prior to installing. Any amount of dust on the wall would weaken the adhesion of the tape. Being a less expensive brand, the lights are spaced two inches apart and some of the colors (purple and orange particularly) are weak. The brightness of the lights is fine for my daughters room because she wants dimmer ambient color light. They are capable of getting much brighter than she needs. From the reviews I watched, the number of lights, quality of the color and brightness is much better on the much more expensive brands. The only complaint that I have is that the remote control that came with these lights is very flimsy. I have used other gadgets with LEd lights that had a similar if not the exact same remote, and those remotes did not last long. The upside of this is that there is a phone App that will control these lights if the remote fails. My daughter has not installed the App because she is not interested in the added features so I cannot speak to the quality of the App. We will see how these lights perform over time, and I will update this review if necessary.