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RE: Re: LED lighting
- To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
- Subject: RE: Re: LED lighting
- From: "Dave McLaughlin" <dave@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2003 23:22:30 -0000
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Hi Andy,
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Very funny Scotty, now beam down my clothes!!!
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-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Laurence [mailto:andy@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 31 October 2003 08:42
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: LED lighting
>That sounds very cool! These switches hide behind panels?! I'd be
>worried about grubby finger marks where the switch is hidden. I for
>one notice the grubby finger marks where people fumble in the dark
>around certain switches in my house.
I was looking to fit it in an area where dark colours are, such as the
worktop of the dark wood surround on the base of the cupboard units.
>That's a great idea, you just need to think about what it looks like
>on the bottom. One thing I wasn't 100% happy about with my install
>was the angle of the lights. They light up the rear half of the work
>surface extremely well, but the front half is less well lit. Angling
>the lights towards the front of the work surface would be useful.
>This could easily be done using your method by simply planing the
>wood at an angle. It was a little tricky with the cabinets!
I may go with the idea that Rodney Hall has give me in another email
of using some ally strip from B&Q etc.
One thing I was maybe going to do is to use a PCB for all the LED
fitting. By making a standard size PCB of say 15mm x 300mm, I could
make them linkable and allow more to be connected together. A recent
idea was to put a CAN bus controller on each one so that I would
have independent control of each module etc, with only a simple 4
wire interconnect.
>Sounds like a great idea. One thing to think about is how you get
>the wires from the power source to the wood holding the lights. I
>ran power from the socket above the cabinets through one of the
>cabinets to the LEDs below.
My cabinets are fitted slightly away from the wall. The top bar is
fixed to the wall, but by drilling down through this, I can drop
cables down the back. This is what I did for the touch screen
computer I have fitted already.
>I'd be inclined to find more powerful LEDs if I were to do it again.
>I used 8cd units, but I'd rather have used the 20cd units I've found
>at http://www.ervan-int.com/cgi-bin/products.pl?
>category=ledlamps_lamps to the point that I'm considering replacing
>them, and will definitely use the more powerful ones for the next
>project. Question is, will that be the loft, garden, shed, or inside
>the cupboards? I've thought about doing the same to light the inside
>of the cupboards. Might look quite good.
I have been checking around looking for something much more powerful.
The Luxeon ones look great but the price is very high. I may buy one
or two to give them a try though.
I like the idea of some in the cupboards with a hidden magnetic switch
to detect when the door is opened and switch the LED's on. mmmm
Regards
Dave...
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