These are essentially LED strips in a tube. Lay them or hang them to spice up your room.
Went to IKEA expecting to pick up two of these for $19 each. Was delighted to see these were only $9. Pretty good discount from $49.
These plug in to any female USB A port. Cable looked decently long and the stick looked evenly lit. Pretty sure these are in store only as website only has listings for the multicolour strips.
Heaps of stock left, easily over 300 remaining.
Dave2D
time to spice up my workstation
Cheap ass light sabre
paint them or wrap them with glass paper to change them into whatever color u want..
alternatively.. in ozbargain spirit.. wrap them in candy wrappers for free color
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tack själv!
How do you family sign up?
Why are these still $35 at Ikea Adelaide then? Does Ikea Adelaide have different pricing?
Edit: I think Adelaide only has the RGB ones and not the white ones in stock.
I also bought the RGB one at Perth Ikea for $35 a couple of days ago.
what are your thoughts on it? any good?
IKEA eastern states is a separate franchise; hence the pricing difference. In fact the staff uniform was also different at the Adelaide store compared to Melbourne.
Wow, TIL.
Would still have been nice if Adelaide had the white ones in stock. And the Spanst basketball ring.
Two Ikeas - one for WA + SA and one for the other states.
Random pricing variation between the two Ikeas.
That has not been the case for a number of years. All stores are owned by IKEA now.
https://www.afr.com/companies/retail/ikea-australia-buys-out…
you beat me to it - unless the sale didn't go through (?)
Does anyone know how many watts they burn?
Looking at running about 20 of them 24/7 (wall cladding with this as back lighting) and it could get expensive if it's higher wattage.
Found an old Amazon listing that suggests 4.5 or 5 watts.
https://www.amazon.ca/IKEA-Spanst-Light-Stick-804-166-32/dp/…
An Led lighting tube of similar length (120cm rather than 134cm) for ceilings is generally about 18 watts, so not bad. Unless I'm reading it wrong.
It doesn't cast light the same way ugly fluorescent tubes do?
It probably doesn't, but to be providing a similar level of light (lumens seems similar, but again, I might not be reading it correctly) but be burning less than a third of the power seems … efficient.
Which is good, I'm not complaining.
I guess. I just care about how ugly those old fluoro tubes are with the light they cast, it ruins all photos and videos, and it's so bright that everything in the room gets lit up when the ceiling is lined with them, no mood at all.
Do you mean if it has banding? Saw it in store… One of them had banding but the other didn't :S
Actually they all seem to have slight banding.
(wall cladding with this as back lighting)
Why not just buy 5-metre rolls of strip-lights? You can make it as powerful or dim as you want.
This would have been helpful to me 24 hours ago before my drive to Ikea lol
Up the voltage and you have a DIY lightsaber
Up the voltage and you'll have a plastic tube with burnt-out LEDs. ;-)
Anybody seen in QLD?
Does anyone have any idea what the lumen rating of these is?
600 lumen - they are designed to be looked-at rather than lighting-up the room.
i saw these while i was there at ikea earlier today. They’re dim and meant to be accent lights than task lights.
Fair, i was going to buy a bunch and use them for Veranda lighting but at 600 lumens its hardly worth the effort.
Holy crap! I paid $19ea for these (and $29ea for the multi-colour version) a couple of weeks ago here in Sydney.
PRO-TIP: Buy as many as you can carry and flog them on eBay (Yanks, in particular, are paying stupid money for them especially on eBay)
Dude, did you just start a stampede on Ikea richmond? Next week on "A Current Affair" Multiple people hurt in mad rush to rip off US Youtubers!
LOL! Just the ones flogging RTX series graphic cards for 30-50% above retail price.
Can anyone tell me if they have the white only version available in the Adelaide store? I'm on the otherwise of town.
None in Adelaide Ikea
Hey OP, wanting to confirm whether these are a cool white or warm white? Thinking of making my own lighting setup for photography use.
They're pretty warm I guess, I read somewhere that they are 3500K, though I'm not that experienced with lighting. If it is for photography, I would suggest the sticks from Quasar Science, though they are extremely expensive. I don't think they are bright enough for photography, though they are great as a background prop. This video may help you choose though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrEFHvgsxbs
If you are still looking for a light in the stick style, i'm sure there are many replicas with varying brightnesses and temperatures.
Cheers. 3500K is perfect
You want to make sure they have a decent CRI
Has anyone found these for $9 at Springvale store? I called up but no one there can tell me if they are $9.
None left at Springvale. The shelf is empty
The price tag did say $9 on the shelf
Happened to go to IKEA Richmond today. At around 2pm:
There were plenty of $9 1.34 m white versions available left.
RGB versions also on discount: $5 for 40 cm, was $25 (only a handful left) and $35 for 1.34 m, was $49.
Hoping to get there on the 27th, fingers crossed there's still some left :)
There were also plenty of 40cm white versions for $5
Heaps left in Springvale. The small size is $5.
Bought two today from Richmond. Not many left. Maybe 10 at most?
there's atleast 100 left at richmond
there's 9 unopened boxes of 10
Haha ok maybe there is, where I looked on the shelf there were hardly any. I was in a rush though so most likely missed the pile. Hooked mine up to my Kogan smart plug and linked it into my Smartthings home automation to turn on when certain doors open at night
full price at rhodes.
Was $25 @ Marsden Park tonight. Got the last one. There were about 4 of us that got 1 each. This is for the RGB 1.34m one.
![[VIC] Spanst 134cm White LED Light Sticks $9 @ IKEA Richmond](https://files.ozbargain.com.au/n/48/593048.jpg?h=015e87b4)
See a lot of these in the background of Youtubers rooms, might be handy