This light kit comes with quite a lot of cables and a car dash lighter adapter if you want a quick and easy makeshift solution.When I first got this set I thought I&#8217;d test the kit in the house first. I have some RC models and just happened to have some 5000mah 12v batteries I could hook up.(NOTE) First time I tried nothing happened. Then I noticed there was a small clear plastic tab sticking out of the remote. The tab ended up being a small sheet of plastic that prevents the remotes coin style battery from accidentally making a connection so it wouldn&#8217;t run out of juice in storage and transit.With the tab removed, the LED strips worked wonderfully. You can choose many color combinations or mix your own plus various flash, pulse, strobe and fade effects.It was while playing with this that I realized that there are a lot more applications for this kind of lighting than just the car. The fade effect between different colors is beautiful and has an ethereal quality. Just for fun I placed them under the yacht on the mantelpiece above the fireplace for some accent lighting and it looks great. A simple 12v AC/DC adapter was all that was needed to hook up the provided LED&#8217;s and control box. The control box already has a standard DC input socket.The LED strips use 3M adhesive strips on the back to attach so decent quality and reliable.So it&#8217;s very easy to set up. The control box uses a standard DC plug socket and probably has some kind of voltage regulator to make sure the LED&#8217;s get the correct amount of energy.  It also has a separate wire approximately a foot  long with a IR receiver for the remote, so you can position it discreetly somewhere. The  remote works very well and the lights make very smooth transitions with a broad spectrum of colors.The strips themselves use a 4 pin configuration male on one end and female on the other. You can easily connect them one after the other to make a longer 2 foot strip and potentially more strips should you need them.