UL Ratings

The rope lights we sell are very versatile products, available in an assortment of colors and suitable for a variety of applications. But among the attributes listed on our rope light product pages, one that you will not find is a UL listing.

Our rope lights are not UL listed.

Why not? In short, the answer is very simple: field modification. You see, the rope lights we sell here at LED Rope Lights And More are sold in bulk spools and come with a variety of accessories. And even more accessories are available for customer purchase. The whole reason for this is that we want our customers to have the flexibility to modify their rope lights as they see fit for their application...whether it be cutting to length in the field, joining runs together with a splice, or tee-in one run into two others. But this method is not UL-approved simply due to the fact that the folks at Underwriter's Laboratories cannot go around certifying every cut, splice, and termination done by a customer or installer at their home or installation site. This does not mean that the rope lights, or the practice of field modification, are not safe, just unsupervised.

Regarding all rope lights, regardless of seller or manufacturer: the only rope lights that are UL listed are those that are fully assembled and terminated at the factory using a pre-approved process. These rope lights cannot be modified.

What happens if you go ahead and field modify a UL listed rope light? The split second you make that first cut, the UL listing is gone.