[Closed] What LED strip lights for under kitchen wall units

Yes. This stuff - it's awesome. We laid it inside cupboards and under the worktops. Position it about an inch inside and it's invisible unless you put your head underneath.

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Search eBay for "LED ribbon". Warm white is a perfect colour match for halogen, or you can get the cool white which is, uh, whiter.

yes looking at them, was wondering if they were worth a punt.

I've been looking for exactly the same, and these looked good:

http://www.ultraleds.co.uk/light-strips-warm-white-lumen-ip67-p-2175.html

What is the different between the L.E.D strips in black PCB and this kind of [url= http://store.letsled.com/flexible-led-strip-s/37.htm ]flexible LED strip[/url]??

the led strips have two types, smd3528 and smd 5050 led strips respectively, in theory, the smd5050 led strip is three time brighter than the smd 3528 strip in the condition of the same amount of LEDs. one reel of 16.4ft [url= http://www.bestlightingbuy.com/led-strips/flexible-led-strips.html ]dc12v led strip[/url] with 300 pcs smd 5050 will consume about 72 watt, bright enough for you to use.

When I refitted our kitchen at the start of the year I used the same stuff that Flaperon has shown in his picture. I think it is smd5050 in warm white. I am very pleased with it. Lots of natural light, with no dark spots or shadows on the worktop - if I was fitting another kitchen I would use it again.

I had to do a bit of soldering to get it around corners, but other than that very easy to install too.

just looking at that myself as im just in the middle of fitting our kitchen. looks just the job. quick question tho. im looking at the stuff that comes with a supply. i assume as its 12v you get a transformer which leads to normal mains plug yep? it says you can split em every 3 lights, so you can tailor the length. am i right in thinking tho that id need a plug/transformer for EVERY seperate strip? i may end up with about 5 or 6 different sections in my kitchen, which seems a bit excessive for taking up a socket for each strip 🙂

cheers

kitchen done, so ready to buy some of these now. anyone able to answer the above question at all?

ta.

you'd only need another transformer if you couldn't join your strips together for some reason, and you wouldn't plug them into a socket normally - you'd wire them into a lighting circuit ( the transformers ).

I used two transformers on mine, but I only had two seperate sections, so wasn't much of an extra cost. I don't see why you couldn't extend the gap between LED sections with wire, that is what I did on the 90 degree corner I had to get around. Where you cut the strips it has a + and - to wire to.