LED strip weirdness. how?

[D1craig]

so i have 2 LED strips in my case both being the same bitfenix alchemy ones that hook up together. when i bought them they were exactly the same models and temp (XXXK - thats how you measure LED colour isnt it?).

so upon moving my PC to my new case i was putting them in and i noticed one of them had had the rubber over the LEDs melt or burn, it was sticky and was yellow. ages ago i noticed that my LED strips were not the same colour anymore. so how exactly would this happen?

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[bremen1874]

Over voltage?

 

[D1craig]

I do recall slight flickering from them a while ago. Wouldn’t over voltage cause more of a problem than just that? The other strip wasn’t affected and they have always be connected to each other.

 

[area51]

One side has probably been poorly made with resistor/s failed so taken full voltage!