Homemade Kitchen undercabinet SMD LED lighting
March 5, 2011 by admin
Filed under Kitchen Accessories
Low voltage (12V) SMD LED strip undercabinet kitchen lighting with dimmer switch. All parts used in this upgrade were purchased on ebay, SMD LED strip, dimmer, and power supply. I soldered all the connections from the strip to the dimmer and power supply. These are warm white in color, and I highly suggest not to use bright white as it changes colors in such a way that it doesn’t look natural. The LED’s give great even lighting with no shadows since these strips have many LED’s. A Bonus is that these don’t get hot, and use very little power. If you should search on ebay for them I would recommend to put “SMD LED 3528 strip warm white” into the search box and as of 4/6/10 they were going for as little as for a 5 meter strip with 300 LED’s. For the dimmer put in “12V LED dimmer” and they run about . Some strips come with the power supply, but if not they can be found pretty cheap. Be sure to see my other videos for my custom LED tail lamps installed, and for my custom LED turn signal mirrors, and LED interior conversion.
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Lighting designer and Author, Randall Whitehead, discusses lighting techniques for kitchens.
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@skammeh Agreed. I bought the 5050 SMD’s but could have gotten 3528′s if I had seen this video. 5050 is very bright.
@jimlasalle Run your lights to a regular wall switch, then use a motion sensing switch ($15) to turn them on.
My non-LED lights are wired this way and I couldn’t live without it. Walking into the kitchen at night (especially with full hands) and…walla, I can see.
I just created a video similar to this, it might be worth checking out if you find this one helpful.
@jimlasalle thats what i was thinking of doing too, awesome idea, let me know if you ever went ahead with it… cheers.
Thanks was hard to get an idea of how bright they are until I saw this
nicely done and beautiful kitchen! love the tiling on the backboard!
@jimlasalle
I suppose it would be possible although I would have no idea if they have 12volt motion sensors. That would be pretty cool though
nice video….thanks for sharing product info, now I know what to buy….Just one quick question…. Would it be possible to connect a motion sensor,,,,, so the lights turn on when someone walks into the room….THANKS