Led strip lights on ceilings

[MrGwythers]

Looking for info on led strip lighting on ceilings with the coving profiles. How would you hide the driver and the cable to the strip light. Would you have the driver above ceiling and just chase the cable from driver to led strip into the wall so it comes out of the wall above the coving.

I'm an apprentice and smart home lighting is something I want to learn.

Also what's best way to do strip lighting for kitchen cabinets? Have a plug and play or have it hardwired and if hardwired what's best way to do this ?

 

[buzzlightyear]

you need to go in the trainee section .

 

[MrGwythers]

you need to go in the trainee section .

Why nof the lighting section

 

[telectrix]

you need to go in the trainee section .

I think you should be sectioned. .

 

[buzzlightyear]

I'm an apprentice

 

[MrGwythers]

I'm a 3rd year apprentice only doing commercial and industrial work, I'm asking a specific question about lighting so I'm sure the lighting section will do.

 

[buzzlightyear]

I think you should be sectioned

I'm all ready am .one flew over the cuckoo's nest.

 

[buzzlightyear]

I'm a 3rd year apprentice only doing commercial and industrial work, I'm asking a specific question about lighting so I'm sure the lighting section will do.

I'm a doctor ,will picking your brains with knitting needle do .

 

[buzzlightyear]

Would you have the driver above ceiling and just chase the cable from driver to led strip into the wall so it comes out of the wall above the coving.

you would have to put the driver under the floor boards has long you can get access to it or have the cable long enough to hide the driver some wear else.so it can not been seen .

Also what's best way to do strip lighting for kitchen cabinets?

the best way is to put the driver on top of the wall cabinets and the cable to the strip lights under the wall units .there is a lot to think about designing lighting in some rooms .

 

[littlespark]

What sort of LED strip are you suggesting here? Mostly strips that come on a roll like sellotape are sort of hidden behind something and light up a wall for example, so the driver and the strip itself are hidden. The strips are too bright to be seen directly, and your eyesight will be seeing lines of little dots for hours afterwards.

Or am I confused.

 

[buzzlightyear]

I confused.

just confused ,keep take the tablets ,you need to go in a dark room and take lie down .

 

[littlespark]

just confused ,keep take the tablets ,you need to go in a dark room and take lie down .

It’s because I tried to do “veganuary” ..... those 20 minutes last Tuesday was pure hell.
I’m now trying “gin-uary” ... going well
Can’t wait for “feb-homebrew-ary”

 

[ipf]

just confused ,keep take the tablets ,you need to go in a dark room and take lie down .

Doctor or driver hider.....get that spelling sorted, bizz.

 

[MrGwythers]

I'm thinking about led strip lights that are not the plug in type. For a pendant you run a cable to a point in the ceiling the cable is hidden, so if I want a led strip above a cabinet or on those coving profiles you can buy would you have say the T+e just coming out of the wall above the profile and into a driver ?

 

[MrGwythers]

so this is the type of lighting designs I want to learn about. I know the strip itself would be hidden in the profile but the led strips will normally have a length of cable going to the driver would that be chased into the wall at the top and have the driver above ceiling and connect supply to that?

 

[Midwest]

Are you on about the connection between the fixed wiring & the wiring/leads to the LED lighting?

If so, normally a suitable JB, I've used Click Flow 102C. Or as is common in new builds, fixed wiring terminated in a flex outlet plate (& back box).

 

[MrGwythers]

Are you on about the connection between the fixed wiring & the wiring/leads to the LED lighting?

If so, normally a suitable JB, I've used Click Flow 102C. Or as is common in new builds, fixed wiring terminated in a flex outlet plate (& back box).

Yea that's what I mean thanks for that.

 

[AJshep]

With all LED lighting its best to get the driver as close to the LED strip as possible. If its not possible you can of course place the driver further away but your need to run a larger cable to compensate for volt drop 1.5mm or 2.5mm depending on distance from driver to strip.
Best to avoid long runs of LED strip as volt drop causes the LEDs to drop off (be dimmer) towards the end of the tape. Higher voltage strip is better for longer runs.
with extra long runs ( like round large rooms or swimming pools) sometimes it is necessary to have multiple power supplys which supply amplifiers.
These boost the existing RGBW signals but give a fresh power supply.