From bigclivedotcom.

A faulty LED neon-style ornament with a very common problem caused by the way the internal LED tape is manufactured.

There were three ways this could be fixed. Replacement of that entire section of strip, adding a feed to the other end or actually repairing the tape at the point of the failure.

Obviously I chose the trickiest, since it is often the only choice in similar fault scenarios.

The 5m rolls of LEDs tape you can buy are usually made of 10 x 0.5m sections joined with solder bridges. The stresses of the flexible tape can result in the solder bridges breaking, as they are quite soft.

I don’t recommend carrying out this type of mid-run repair on 120/240V tape or stuff exposed to weather, as it breaks the insulation of the run with a risk of water ingress causing tracking issues.

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