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By *litterbabe OP Woman
over a year ago
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A little while ago I posted a thread asking about kitchens, and got some fantastic tips and advice which I have put two very good use.
I'm now very interested in LED lighting, what have you done with yours, have you got too much of it too little of it?
At the moment I'm feeling like I want to run it across the top and under my wall units to and possibly under my breakfast bar too.
Do I need it under the floor units too?
What's the best time to get, a roll of it or strips?
Am I going a little LED crazy? Is it a craze that will just wear off or will I still be using it in a few years time?
I kind of like warm white but it would be great to have the option of changing colour if I wanted to party things up a bit, any ideas or advice or recommendations are very welcome, tell me about your LEDs... Turn it on and flash..
(do they even do that?)
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over a year ago
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I’ve got an Ikea kitchen, they do LED lighting that’s remote controlled so no need to run a new switch in, you just need a plug close by, I reworked the kitchen so stuck a couple of sockets aboveboard the high level units, works very well but it doesn’t flash, not into discos in the kitchen, too distracting when I’m cooking  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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you did ask...
LED's are here to stay. The costs have dramatically dropped and as are for the purposes of SAPs and and new builds the only way forwards..
So no flash in the pan, more of a bright idea..
Colour changing LED's are the way to go whether down or up lighting and a lot of cheap and efficient systems will change with your mobile phone set as the controller.
We have them as recessed in the ceiling in the kitchen - brilliant, so go for it!
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"A little while ago I posted a thread asking about kitchens, and got some fantastic tips and advice which I have put two very good use.
I'm now very interested in LED lighting, what have you done with yours, have you got too much of it too little of it?
At the moment I'm feeling like I want to run it across the top and under my wall units to and possibly under my breakfast bar too.
Do I need it under the floor units too?
What's the best time to get, a roll of it or strips?
Am I going a little LED crazy? Is it a craze that will just wear off or will I still be using it in a few years time?
I kind of like warm white but it would be great to have the option of changing colour if I wanted to party things up a bit, any ideas or advice or recommendations are very welcome, tell me about your LEDs... Turn it on and flash..
(do they even do that?)
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I used to work testing led lighting so I know a bit about it. Led's arent going away any time soon as the government is trying to phase out other types that are much less efficient. Eventually we will all be using them as other types stop being available. |
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By *andonmessMan
over a year ago
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"How do you recess them into your ceiling? And do the light bulbs ever die, do you have to replace the whole lot?"
Recessed ceiling lights (usually called down lighters) sit flush with the ceiling, the working parts being hidden in the ceiling void. Unless you can lift the floor in the room above or are replacing the ceiling, they're all but impossible to swap over to (assuming you have a conventional single light fitting. Additional wiring has to be run).
As for replacement, if you swap a traditional filament lightbulb for an LED replacement, you just swap the "bulb" out when they die. LED bulbs usually have a life expectancy of approx 25000 hours, so baring accidents etc, they last a long while. LED light fittings can be a tricky one to answer. Some use what's called SMLED, surface mounted LED, where the LED is soldered to a board that is integral to the light fitting, so when it does, you would have to change the entire fitting again. More expensive fittings will come with a replaceable LED board so you can just swap that out in the event of a failure.
Hope that clears it up a little for you. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I recently replaced our old halogen bulbs with new led filament bulbs (6 watt equivalent to 60 watt in old money) in cool white.
They've made an amazing difference but to be honest selecting the right ones proved to be a bit of a minefield and required a great deal of research. |
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By *litterbabe OP Woman
over a year ago
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"How do you recess them into your ceiling? And do the light bulbs ever die, do you have to replace the whole lot?
Recessed ceiling lights (usually called down lighters) sit flush with the ceiling, the working parts being hidden in the ceiling void. Unless you can lift the floor in the room above or are replacing the ceiling, they're all but impossible to swap over to (assuming you have a conventional single light fitting. Additional wiring has to be run).
As for replacement, if you swap a traditional filament lightbulb for an LED replacement, you just swap the "bulb" out when they die. LED bulbs usually have a life expectancy of approx 25000 hours, so baring accidents etc, they last a long while. LED light fittings can be a tricky one to answer. Some use what's called SMLED, surface mounted LED, where the LED is soldered to a board that is integral to the light fitting, so when it does, you would have to change the entire fitting again. More expensive fittings will come with a replaceable LED board so you can just swap that out in the event of a failure.
Hope that clears it up a little for you. "
That's really interesting, the ceiling is actually being plastered last week as I've had spotlights installed, I wonder if I've got time to try and get ceiling lights put in, if it's something I can do myself before the plasterer comes, then it won't matter if I've made another hole in the ceiling. |
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over a year ago
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We have 12v LED light strips which come in 5mtr reels, under and above our wall units. The transformer is controlled by a WiFi Switch which can be controlled by Amazon Alexa so we can schedule times for the lights to turn on or off etc via the app or use voice to switch them on.
It’s made a big difference to the lighting in our kitchen and for the little money it has cost it was a brilliant addition.
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"I can completely feel myself going LED mad, any recommendations, is there any difference in quality or are they all pretty much the same?"
We get ours from eBay, but make sure you get the waterproof ones with the white remote control, always comes as a complete set. |
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"I can completely feel myself going LED mad, any recommendations, is there any difference in quality or are they all pretty much the same?"
Make sure you are buying something that is safe . Not much can go wrong with the actual LEDs, however the transformer / led driver units that provide the power must be certified and safe.
Buyer beware of cheap things that “look the same” |
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"A little while ago I posted a thread asking about kitchens, and got some fantastic tips and advice which I have put two very good use.
I'm now very interested in LED lighting, what have you done with yours, have you got too much of it too little of it?
At the moment I'm feeling like I want to run it across the top and under my wall units to and possibly under my breakfast bar too.
Do I need it under the floor units too?
What's the best time to get, a roll of it or strips?
Am I going a little LED crazy? Is it a craze that will just wear off or will I still be using it in a few years time?
I kind of like warm white but it would be great to have the option of changing colour if I wanted to party things up a bit, any ideas or advice or recommendations are very welcome, tell me about your LEDs... Turn it on and flash..
(do they even do that?)
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The kit and driver we saw at IKEA worked out at 180£ ..got some LED strips off wish. 6£. Because they run on 5v, I wired an old mobile phone charger into the cooker hood light(so instead of switching on a 240 bulb it puts power to the phone charger. Led strips now below upper cabinets and on the foot boards. So when you turn the cooker good light on, everything switches on. All wired through standard “speaker” cable (more than enough to run LEDs). Total cost : about 12£ and three hours of my time |
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"A little while ago I posted a thread asking about kitchens, and got some fantastic tips and advice which I have put two very good use.
I'm now very interested in LED lighting, what have you done with yours, have you got too much of it too little of it?
At the moment I'm feeling like I want to run it across the top and under my wall units to and possibly under my breakfast bar too.
Do I need it under the floor units too?
What's the best time to get, a roll of it or strips?
Am I going a little LED crazy? Is it a craze that will just wear off or will I still be using it in a few years time?
I kind of like warm white but it would be great to have the option of changing colour if I wanted to party things up a bit, any ideas or advice or recommendations are very welcome, tell me about your LEDs... Turn it on and flash..
(do they even do that?)
The kit and driver we saw at IKEA worked out at 180£ ..got some LED strips off wish. 6£. Because they run on 5v, I wired an old mobile phone charger into the cooker hood light(so instead of switching on a 240 bulb it puts power to the phone charger. Led strips now below upper cabinets and on the foot boards. So when you turn the cooker good light on, everything switches on. All wired through standard “speaker” cable (more than enough to run LEDs). Total cost : about 12£ and three hours of my time "
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By *litterbabe OP Woman
over a year ago
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So I am getting somewhere with my LED journey and it looks like I'm going to have loads of them.
I've worked out that I need ip65 which are waterproof, 5m strips of rgbw,( advice on whether I'd like that with the warm white or cool white would be wonderful. I'm thinking warm white as if I've got it right it makes more pastel shades.)
I'm not sure what controls, transformers and power I need, I have hard-wired electricity under my cabinets but I'm thinking I could split those so it runs above and below and is still wired like the old ones directly on the main circuit.
The other places I presume I need a transformer and power source to plug in directly. It's a bit of a minefield as there are so many different kinds, (and something about shopping for lumines too)..
Some seem to be dimmable, some not, and some of them have 60 LEDs per metre and some 120. I was thinking brightest is probably best.
I've also seen those little c-shaped conduit type things that you can put the LED in so that it hides the individual LEDs and makes it more of a strip, for ones that are in direct view. |
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