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Re: Dubai Lamps
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2022 6:25 pm
by Joeboy
Oldgreybeard wrote: ↑Thu Sep 29, 2022 6:07 pm
The lights I fitted under our wall mounted kitchen units, are just cheap LED strips from eBay, with a 12V power supply tucked away in the cabinets. They are wired using these wireless switches (have loads of these, they are brilliant):
https://www.quinetic.co.uk/
I hid the strips from direct view by just fitting a matching oak trim (left over bit of oak door shut strip (sure there's a proper name for it) glued along the front edge of the underside of the wall units, with the LED strip stuck behind it, out of sight. Works a treat, and instead of the very power hungry 5050 or 5630 LED strip I used outside, for the kitchen I used the much lower power 3528 strip, that only draws about 1W per metre or so.
I bought little led lanterns and converted the existing units. I liked the pyramid shape of the s/s steel housings.
Re: Dubai Lamps
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2022 6:43 pm
by Oldgreybeard
Joeboy wrote: ↑Thu Sep 29, 2022 6:25 pm
Oldgreybeard wrote: ↑Thu Sep 29, 2022 6:07 pm
The lights I fitted under our wall mounted kitchen units, are just cheap LED strips from eBay, with a 12V power supply tucked away in the cabinets. They are wired using these wireless switches (have loads of these, they are brilliant):
https://www.quinetic.co.uk/
I hid the strips from direct view by just fitting a matching oak trim (left over bit of oak door shut strip (sure there's a proper name for it) glued along the front edge of the underside of the wall units, with the LED strip stuck behind it, out of sight. Works a treat, and instead of the very power hungry 5050 or 5630 LED strip I used outside, for the kitchen I used the much lower power 3528 strip, that only draws about 1W per metre or so.
I bought little led lanterns and converted the existing units. I liked the pyramid shape of the s/s steel housings.
Lot to be said for aesthetics outbidding ultimate energy efficiency, especially if marital harmony is to be maintained! This is a photo of the LED strip arrangement I came up with, in case it is of any use to anyone else (the LEDs are 12V, so safe enough to DIY). This is a front view, showing the bit of oak trim used to hide the LED strip:
- Cabinet light - front.jpg (55.8 KiB) Viewed 1544 times
and this is a slightly awkward underside view, showing the self-adhesive LED strip stuck to the base of the cabinets behind the oak trim:
- Cabinet light - underside view.jpg (64.43 KiB) Viewed 1544 times