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    1. 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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