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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 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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  1. Minithra
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    This is a noname local firm, but Casalux (I think its an Aldi Germany exclusive brand) has good led strips. I have one that I'm using on my balcony, its been out in sun ans weather for 5 years and...

    This is a noname local firm, but Casalux (I think its an Aldi Germany exclusive brand) has good led strips. I have one that I'm using on my balcony, its been out in sun ans weather for 5 years and its still going strong