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Most people shop permanent lights by the length on the box — 100 feet, 200 feet — and find the problem later, when the outlet turns out to be a long way from the first light and the cord in the kit stops well short. The light run is not the reach. The reach is the cord from the outlet to the first light, and on Addlon’s permanent outdoor lights that number is a lot smaller than the number on the box.
Here is what the kit actually is, what it includes, and how to handle the distance between your outlet and your roofline before you order.
What You Get: The 100-Foot Kit
The standard kit is Addlon’s Permanent Outdoor Lights in the 100-foot length, model RKPO-UL2402000DP-6, with 50 dual-LED lights — each light carries both a warm white LED and an RGB color LED, so the same run does plain white porch light in July and color for the holidays. Control runs through an app and a remote, and the whole string is rated IP67 waterproof, which means the lights, the control box, and the adapter are built to sit outside in rain and snow year-round.
The run is cuttable and extendable: cut the string to fit a short roofline and rejoin the sections with the included wire connectors, or extend it to a total of 200 feet when one kit does not cover the house. The box holds the light string, the power adapter, the control box, an extension cable, the remote, and the mounting hardware — 3M adhesive pads and screws for fixing the lights under the eaves.
Addlon Permanent Outdoor Lights, 100FT, 50 Dual-LED
Warm white plus RGB in one run, app and remote control, IP67 waterproof, cuttable and extendable to 200 feet.
The 30-Foot Question, Answered Straight
There is no 30-foot power cord in the Addlon permanent lights kit. The extension cable included with the 100-foot kit is 6.5 feet long, and that is the reach the manufacturer gives you between the power adapter and the light string. The 100 and 200 in the product names are the lengths of the light run, not the power cord — and that mix-up is exactly how a buyer ends up with a box of lights and an outlet thirty feet from the roofline.
Measure before you order. Run a tape from the outdoor outlet you plan to use to the spot where the first light will mount, and count the path the cord has to take — down from the eave, around a corner, along the wall — not the straight line through the air. If that distance is more than about six feet, the kit’s cord will not reach, and you need a plan for the gap: a weatherproof outdoor extension cord rated for the load, or a different outlet closer to the roofline. Do not stretch the kit’s cord tight and do not leave the adapter and control box dangling — the connections are weatherproof when seated properly, not when strained.
The 200-Foot Version
If the roofline needs more than 100 feet, Addlon sells the same system as a 200-foot kit — 100 LEDs, model USET-200FT100LED-B-243C — with the same IP67 rating, the same app and remote control, and the same cut-and-extend design. The listing puts the lifespan at up to 50,000 hours and the operating range at -4°F to 140°F, which covers every season a roofline sees. Buy the 200-foot kit when one long run covers the house, not two 100-foot kits — a single run means one adapter, one controller, and one app setup instead of two of everything.
Addlon Permanent Outdoor Lights, 200FT, 100 LED is the longer version of the same kit.
How the Install Actually Goes
The lights mount under the eaves with the adhesive pads, backed up by screws where the instructions call for them, and the string can be cut to length and rejoined with the included connectors — which is the right way to fit a roofline that is not a round number of feet. The power setup gives you three options: adapter to controller to first string, adapter straight to the first string, or adapter straight to the second string — but only one power option at a time, because feeding a continuous string from two sources at once can damage it or light it unevenly.
The mistake that costs the most here is treating these like string lights. A café string drapes across a pergola and comes down in January; these go up under the eaves and stay, which means the mounting, the cord path, and the outlet all have to be right the first time. Measure the roofline, measure the outlet, and order the length that fits the house you have — not the length that sounds like enough.
When These Are the Wrong Buy
Permanent roofline lights solve one job: year-round light on the house itself. If the job is lighting a patio, a deck, or a pergola for the summer, a plug-in string set is cheaper, easier to hang, and easier to take down — our guide to the best outdoor string lights for patios, decks, and pergolas covers the ones that hold up, and solar vs. plug-in outdoor string lights settles the power question for spots with no outlet at all. And if the roofline has no outdoor outlet within reach, no permanent light kit fixes that — the outlet comes first, the lights second.
Bottom Line
Buy the 100-foot Addlon kit when your roofline run fits inside 100 feet and your outlet sits within about six feet of the first light — that is the house this kit is built for, and at that distance it does the whole job: warm white most of the year, color when you want it, controlled from the couch. If the outlet is thirty feet away, fix the distance first with a weatherproof extension cord or a closer outlet, then buy the lights. The lights are the easy part. The cord is the purchase that decides whether they work.
