FabianWe’ve been waiting a long time for this, but now the accessories for the Hue Flux light strip are finally available. We were particularly excited about the flexible connector, which can be used to bridge ‘dark’ sections with a length of 50 centimetres. But what if your installation requires significantly smaller or larger distances?
Unfortunately, two flexible Flux connectors cannot be connected directly to each other to bridge a gap of one metre, for example. However, with a little manual skill, you can easily solve this problem.
In principle, it is possible to cut through the cable of the flexible connector. This reveals four wires in four different colours: positive, NC, DI and negative. You can extend these four individual wires to the desired length with four cables.
For the sake of science, I recreated this in a fairly simple way using Wago connection terminals and four simple cables. The Hue Flux Lightstrip extended in this way then worked as usual. However, there is one important rule you must observe: while working, do not disconnect the lightstrip from the controller, but rather the controller from the power cable.
Only then will the light strip be initialised correctly when you plug it back in later.
Of course, my installation of the Hue Flux Lightstrip won’t win any beauty contests. But with a decent four-core cable, proper connections and some heat-shrink tubing, things should look quite different. The big advantage of this DIY solution is obvious: you don’t need a soldering iron, and you can do it yourself relatively easily.
Feel free to write in the comments if you have any other ideas or thoughts you’d like to try out with the Flux accessories. I’ll be happy to try them out for you as far as I can.
Hue Flux flex connector (4x)
€29.99 / $29.99
LOL, funny that they’d use a cable with four internal wires, when one of them is literally not connected to anything on the strip itself (the one labeled NC).
Could these joins be made with some CAT6a ethernet leads, and with your testing is there an upper limit to the lengths without impacting the brightness?
And what about multiple strips. For instance if you have 3 lengths of Flux strips and 2 connector cables. Could you plug in the 3 ends into a Wago 3 connector and light 3 strips of 2 connector cables?