This 600mm flexible LED noodle runs on 12V and creates warm, neon-style lighting effects. Made from micro LEDs on a bendable metal backing with a silicone coating, it’s PWM dimmable and draws around 320mA at 12V (120mA at 11V).
Our favourite food when hacking on code or electronics is a hot bowl of noodles — and around NYC these are often called “noods”! These aren’t edible, but they are great for adding fun lighting effects: flexible LED noodles in different colours and lengths.
You’ll often see this style of LED “filament” inside Edison-style bulbs, shaped into hearts or stars, or simply wrapped into loops for a warm decorative glow. Each noodle is made from dozens of tiny micro LEDs bonded onto an ultra-flexible metal backing, then sealed in coloured silicone for protection. Because the LEDs are wired in parallel, they’re easy to power — you only need 12V to light them up. We recommend using a current-limiting resistor and keeping the current to 500mA maximum.
You get one noodle per pack, perfect for adding mini neon-style lighting to miniature sets, dioramas, dollhouses, and other small-scale builds. They have the look and feel many people want from EL wire, but since they’re essentially one long LED, they’re also easy to PWM dim.
To use it, apply 12V by connecting power to both ends. The anode is the metal end with a small hole, but if it doesn’t light up straight away, just swap the connections — no harm done.
This noodle is 600mm long (that’s 0.6 metres, or just under 24 inches). At 12V it can be very bright, so current limiting is a good idea. As a reference, we measured:
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