As this place knows everything – cabinet lighting

I’m making up three small display cabinets – I want to fit an inlaid led light strip into the sides – these are readily available on amazon.

However, ideally want I want is one plug socket / power adaptor and the ability to power several light strips in the three cabinets.  So I only need one socket / hide one cable

Not having much luck sourcing, probably not using the right search term…. anyone done this before / recommend a product?

Thanks

edit all the cabinets will be on the small wall but will be set apart from each other by a few inches

edit2 cabinets are different sizes 40×40, 30×30 and 20×20 so strips need to be trimable too or available in those dimensions

Something like this?

Linkable LED Lights

Or this, but the ‘daisy’ chaining is from the centre so might not be as versatile:

LED Light strips

screwfix or toolstation have them power block which allows multiple strips to run from

Ikea’s range of LED cabinet kitchen lighting is excellent IME.

You want a ‘driver’ for LED lights

https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/search/?q=lighting%20driver

The £10 one will do six lights, the others more.  You’d have to buy/cut/join their wires to get the bit that plugs in though.  Also, all the Ikea stuff *seems* to be 24V – I’ve run their lights on other drivers.  24V is good, but a lot of other cheap stuff runs on 12 which won’t work with Ikea’s drivers….  (some LED tape is 12v, some 24v, some fittings are constant current rather than constant voltage).

There are configurable drivers that will deal with any sort of LED by adjusting some microswitches –

https://uk.rs-online.com/web/c/displays-optoelectronics/led-lighting-components/led-drivers/?pn=1&rpp=100

We use Sensio led lights for under kitchen cupboards when doing new installs.

Easy to fit as pretty much just plug and play style, wire up the transformer to the 240v side and then you can plug in multiple (upto 5 I think) strips of sensio led tape that have prewired connections on the end

thanks guys some stuff for me to research

We did this a few years ago, it’s quite straight forward. All you need is led strip on a reel at the brightness and colour temp you want. They will normally have cut lines every few cm with contact points for solder to rejoin with thin wire. You just snip there and solder wires across however many terminals there are, likely two or three each side. You link all the strips that way with the wire hidden in the cabinet structure and connect to an led driver with the right power and functions (eg support for colour change etc).

You can also mount the led strip in a led holder with a diffuser. It’s not plug and play but you can go as custom as you like.