HOW TO ADD LED BACKLIGHTING TO ANY TV IN FIVE MINUTES!

TV LED BACKLIGHTING SUPPLIES

You know, like those gigantic ancient box televisions that even thrift stores won’t accept anymore?

However, adding LED backlighting to newer (and especially Smart) TVs can be done in a jiffy:

1. Flatscreen TV

Ours is the 65″ 2016 model of this Samsung

2. USB TV LED backlighting strip sized for your TV

3. Optional: Wall TV mount

HOW TO ADD LED BACKLIGHTING TO A TV

So here are the extremely complicated and time-consuming directions for how to add LED backlighting to any TV.

JUST KIDDING!

Nothing hard or complicated about this at all.

It’s seriously one of the quickest and easiest home improvement projects you’ll ever do.

I’ll explain in more detail below, but here is a quick rundown of how we added LED backlight bar to our TV:

1. Snap the ends of the strips into flexible corner pieces and then peel off the backings, one at a time

2. Adhere one strip at a time to the four edges of the TV, making sure the folded corner pieces stay hidden behind the TV

3. Plug the adapter into the USB port on the back of the TV

Tada!

Like I said, easiest DIY project ever.

Ok, so here are all the deets…

Our LED backlight strips came as four long strips with sticky backs that each got adhered to the edges of the back of the TV.

In between each sticky section is a bendable corner piece that has arrows that guide you when snapping them into the strips.

The power for the LEDs come via the USB port on the back of the TV.

Hooray for no hardwiring!