Cheap LED Lighting Tube

This is my first instructable! And hope you like it.

It's about a cheap indoor LED lighting tube. That you can hang on only 2 screws or fasten it with cable ties to something.

use it above my workbench and in my tent (for camping). Its cheap,light and easy to make.

• 1 x 5m LED-Strip (Get it on Banggood)
• 1 x Solderless Female Barrel Power Connector (Get it on Banggood)
• 1 x Electrical tube (19mm / 3/4") (hardware store)
• 2 x Screw hook (hardware store)
• 12 x cable ties (hardware store)
• 1 x 12V / > 2 ampère adapter (from a old router or modem) Led strip uses 24W / 12V = 2A
• Solder Flux pen
• Universeel soldeer
• Drill (bore +/-2mm)
• Soldering iron
• some electrical tape
• some isolated wire

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NOT waterproof (ip65), only for indoor use!

Take a electrical tube

Ø19mm about 1000 mm in length

Drill two holes +/- 2mm on each side

Cut the led strip in 5 pieces (5x1000mm)

Cut only on a scissor symbol! (from one scissor symbol to another is 50mm)

Place the strips next to each other (place all the + symbol on the same side)

Cut the first 50 mm of the first strip (where there are three copper contacts)

Solder the strips with some wire together

Peel of the back of the LED strips en put them one by one on the tube. Do not cover the holes you made!

Slide the LED strip into the connector en close it until it clicks. There are + and - symbols on the top of the "clip" so you know how to put it in.

Use the cable ties to secure the led strip (every 10cm i used one and two to secure the power connector)

Put the two screw hooks in the holes and apply some tape over the solders.

Connect the poweradapter and..... there will be light.