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Product Testing #1: Machine Sewing

A project log for GlowStitch LED Strips

LED strips for soft circuits, paper circuits and more!

stephSteph 08/21/2022 at 08:460 Comments

This weekend, my large order of my LED Strips arrived.  It was taking too much time to hand solder these tiny 0807 size LEDs!  I can now start sending out samples for beta testing and I've begun some of my own product testing.  In this test, I wanted to find out what the failure rate was for repetitive machine sewing on the tabs.  I laid out 100 LED Strips and sewed five lines of straight stitch down each side.  Generally you would only need one or two rows of stitching, and five is overkill. I found that all LED strips still functioned after this torture test, which is an under 1% failure rate.  Super happy with this result!

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