Help adding LED lighting to bookcases
Hi! My partner and I want to follow this guide and add LED strip lighting to bookcases we're putting up. Partner has significant experience with assembly/DIY home improvement projects, I have...
Hi! My partner and I want to follow this guide and add LED strip lighting to bookcases we're putting up. Partner has significant experience with assembly/DIY home improvement projects, I have minimal but nonzero experience with soldering. We are both a bit lost on how to pick LED strip lighting and a controller.
Info about our setup:
- We will have several bookcases next to each other
- We would rather drill a slightly bigger hole in the side of the cases to pass the strip itself in between the cases rather than deal with extra soldering joints
- We have picked out conduit already (basically all of the non-electrical components)
- There are seven shelves on each case so we'll need seven LED strips
- There will be roughly 10 feet (a bit less) of strips per shelf, collectively across all the cases
- We would like to have RGB controls, but we don't care about syncing to music
Questions:
- What LED strips would you recommend? Longevity being probably the most important part
- What controller/power supply should we use? Keep in mind neither of us is super experienced with this kind of thing so the less complicated the better
- Anything else I should be asking that I'm not? Any advice in general?
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