This is an inspiring post, so now I’d like to imitate some of the stuff you’ve done! I’d love it if you could post some pictures of what the installed RGB strips look like, in particular. I’m interested in setting up a bunch of smart-home lighting, and these light strips sound pretty cool, but it’s hard for me to picture how exactly these are mounted and how they look when installed.
Do you just, like, double-sided-tape the LED strip to the walls? Or use clips of some kind? How do you install a “diffuser” or “make them face the walls” to spread out the light? How does this all look once installed? It would be great to have amazon links to everything you use for mounting / diffusing / etc. I’d love an “here’s everything you’ll need” list like what’s included in several of the classic posts about “Lumenator” design.
How does it get connected up to power? Presumably you’re running these LED strips along the edges of the ceiling, right? So the wires probably come down in a corner of the room, where they meet the “24V 200W power supply adapter”, which in turn plugs into the wall? How many strips can you power from one power-supply adapter?
Maybe there’s a particular video tutorial (this guy seems to have a whole channel about installing LED light strips, for example) that you used, which covers all these questions pretty well?
The strips are normally sticky/have built-in tape.
I’m lazy, so I just put the LEDs on any high-up surface that points up, and I also have a strip in a large floor lamp from IKEA (I use transparent cable management thingies to attach it to rods inside the lamp. Be careful with some of the floor lamps, as th LED emits a lot of heat and some floor lamps won’t have enough air flow).
You should probably instead buy any aluminum rail + diffuser for LED strips wide enough for your specific strip, attach the rail to the edge between the ceiling and the walls.
At Lighthaven, they just attach a long flat thing to the walls and add and LED strip on the side pointing at the ceiling/the walls (though they also have some strips behind diffusers).
(I’m not doing that, because I’m lazy + occasionally move rooms.)
How many strips you can power depends on how much power they want to eat and how much power your controller can manage and your power supply adapter can provide. The power supply adapter, indeed, plugs into the wall, but you can also find some that connect directly to the main (some of those will be more powerful).
This is an inspiring post, so now I’d like to imitate some of the stuff you’ve done! I’d love it if you could post some pictures of what the installed RGB strips look like, in particular. I’m interested in setting up a bunch of smart-home lighting, and these light strips sound pretty cool, but it’s hard for me to picture how exactly these are mounted and how they look when installed.
Do you just, like, double-sided-tape the LED strip to the walls? Or use clips of some kind? How do you install a “diffuser” or “make them face the walls” to spread out the light? How does this all look once installed? It would be great to have amazon links to everything you use for mounting / diffusing / etc. I’d love an “here’s everything you’ll need” list like what’s included in several of the classic posts about “Lumenator” design.
How does it get connected up to power? Presumably you’re running these LED strips along the edges of the ceiling, right? So the wires probably come down in a corner of the room, where they meet the “24V 200W power supply adapter”, which in turn plugs into the wall? How many strips can you power from one power-supply adapter?
Maybe there’s a particular video tutorial (this guy seems to have a whole channel about installing LED light strips, for example) that you used, which covers all these questions pretty well?
Yay!
The strips are normally sticky/have built-in tape.
I’m lazy, so I just put the LEDs on any high-up surface that points up, and I also have a strip in a large floor lamp from IKEA (I use transparent cable management thingies to attach it to rods inside the lamp. Be careful with some of the floor lamps, as th LED emits a lot of heat and some floor lamps won’t have enough air flow).
You should probably instead buy any aluminum rail + diffuser for LED strips wide enough for your specific strip, attach the rail to the edge between the ceiling and the walls.
At Lighthaven, they just attach a long flat thing to the walls and add and LED strip on the side pointing at the ceiling/the walls (though they also have some strips behind diffusers).
(I’m not doing that, because I’m lazy + occasionally move rooms.)
How many strips you can power depends on how much power they want to eat and how much power your controller can manage and your power supply adapter can provide. The power supply adapter, indeed, plugs into the wall, but you can also find some that connect directly to the main (some of those will be more powerful).