LED Strip with quinetic switches

[MattBaigent]

Good morning all,

Hope you’re weekend is good so far.

Little question on some LED strip?? I’ve never worked with LED strip before so not really too sure on the ways it can be installed..

I’m re do our bathroom and building a little shelf within the wall and thought I’d see about putting an LED strip within it, to control it I’d ideally like to use a quinetic switch but I’m not sure if a dimmable quinetic switch, connected to a LED driver and then the strip would work?

Does the dimmable driver control the dimming or does it just allow the dimming to be controlled via a switch?

Also, are the LED profiles IP rated or does the LED strip have the be IP65?
Looking on CEF and they only have 2 IP65 and both aren’t what we are looking for so wondered if we would be able to meet the IP rating with the profile.

Thank you

 

[Pretty Mouth]

The dimmable driver will allow the dimming to be controlled by an upstream dimmer switch, I expect this will work with the quinetic dimmer. You'll need dimmable LED tape too.

I'm not sure that the profiles are officially IP rated. Will you be installing this within the zones?

 

[MattBaigent]

The dimmable driver will allow the dimming to be controlled by an upstream dimmer switch, I expect this will work with the quinetic dimmer. You'll need dimmable LED tape too.

I'm not sure that the profiles are officially IP rated. Will you be installing this within the zones?

Brilliant, thank you.

Yes, it will be within zone 1 so I’d need it to be IP65. It shouldn’t be getting too wet as it’ll be at the top back corner but when we clean bathroom it would get wet.

there is a void behind for the soil pipe so the install will be pretty easy which is handy and the driver will be up in the loft so I can change if needed.

 

[Pretty Mouth]

Brilliant, thank you.

Yes, it will be within zone 1 so I’d need it to be IP65. It shouldn’t be getting too wet as it’ll be at the top back corner but when we clean bathroom it would get wet.

there is a void behind for the soil pipe so the install will be pretty easy which is handy and the driver will be up in the loft so I can change if needed.

Personally, I would use both IP65 LED strip and a profile to house it in. I can't see the adhesive of the strip lasting long in that environment, but also not 100% confident that the profile alone would keep moisture out

 

[MattBaigent]

Personally, I would use both IP65 LED strip and a profile to house it in. I can't see the adhesive of the strip lasting long in that environment, but also not 100% confident that the profile alone would keep moisture out

Yes, I plan to fit it within a profile to mainly to diffuse the light slightly and like you said, to offer a bit more protection.

Thanks for your help.