100 Dotstar Strip (3587) wound too tightly

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100 Dotstar Strip (3587) wound too tightly

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I ordered a few of the 100 Dotstar (APA-102) strips from a supplier, to be placed using a pick and place machine. However, the strip is wound extremely tightly in the vacuum pack it comes in (from adafruit) and so the strip is bent at odd angles when you unroll it, making it difficult to use in automated placement.

Is it possible to find the strips packaged differently anywhere else, but still as a strip of 100 LEDs? Or is there anything else I can do to the strip to make it easier to fit with the placement setup?

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