LED Light Strips

[will1983]

Hi I have a load of live edge sycamore boards acclimatising in the house waiting to become floating shelves in an alcove in our living room.
I would like to use these shelves to display things from our travels so need to include some sort of lighting.

I was considering buying the self adhesive LED light strips and mounting them in a V groove in the bottom of the shelves. the intention being that when stuck to the rear facing facet of the V groove they would shine back into the alcove.

I was wondering if anyone here had any recommendations for which LED light strips to buy or as is usually the case with this forum anyone had another better idea?

 

[Tasky]

I've been looking around at some LED replacements for my fluorescent tube lights in the garage.
A number of folk recommended LED Hut, and they do a variety of LED strips for shelving too.

 

[novocaine]

for what you are after get the second cheapest you can find. they are all pretty much the same stuff. if it's for display go with single colour.

I ran a set of multicolour round a jukebox project, it works well, especially when it can't be seen.

 

[Racers]

I used the cheapest ones on Ebay for some shelves and they work fine.


Pete

 

[Hot stuff]

+1 for the cheap eBay ones. I've used loads from China in the caravan, under kitchen units, in alcoves etc, no problems at all. Remember you'll need a driver for them, Screwfix do good ones for around £18 if I remember correctly.
The only drawback to the Chinese thing is the extended delivery time but if that doesn't bother you then go for it.

 

[NazNomad]

I've got two of these above the lathe and one in the garage. No problems with them so far.

https://www.screwfix.com/p/philips-led- ... -20w/7685t

I started using a welding mask for woodturning because it's too bright. :-D (I'm joking)

 

[will1983]

Thanks all, I'll check out "The 'Bay of E"!

I looked on LED Hut, they had some quite nifty looking channel with LED sticky strip inside that I could inset into the surface, bit pricy at about £22 a meter though.

 

[toonarmy1987]

just fitted the channel from LED hut into my bathroom shelving. It is good stuff and the plastic shrouding dows a good job of dispersing the light so it does no't create spots on the shelf bellow. The other benefit is that they do a backward facing 45 degree angle channel to do exactly what your v grove would do.

 

[will1983]

Cheers Toonarmy, I'll do a search for that. it would result in a much neater result.

Do you know how it would work with 6 individual channels? I presume you can run them all from the same driver, but do you daisy chain them or is it necessary to run 6 individual wires out of a single driver?

 

[toonarmy1987]

I have just that on my shelving unit. 6 small strips run off one driver plugged into a socket I spliced in in my loft wiring. Just a bit of solder and some wire. It really is very simple. here is a pic of the lights working before I installed the shelves.

 

[toonarmy1987]

would help if i put the pic in :lol:

 

[will1983]

Looks good, I like the colour.

Thank you Toonarmy

 

[whiskywill]

The only drawback to the Chinese thing is the extended delivery time but if that doesn't bother you then go for it.

This can vary a lot. My last two orders from AliExpress have arrived in 9 days and 7 days.

 

[timberterminator]

I've just installed kampa awning led lights along one side of the garage roof and looking to do the same at the other side, they are very good

 

[DiscoStu]

Used loads of these. The cheapest eBay strips will be fine for a shelf. You can get some with brighter LED’s but for a shelf the cheapies will be fine. Go for warm white though or it will look very clinical.


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