Niche, ceiling, interior elements - tell me where you can place the LED ribbon and how to install it correctly.
Compact, flexible and hardly distinguishing heat LED ribbons can be located almost everywhere and use to solve a wide range of tasks. What exactly - try to figure out.
Where to place
The very configuration of the light source tells us a solution. LED ribbon It is convenient to equip the extended and flat light sources on the walls, the ceiling, in niches, on different designs. With it, you can create a contour illumination of interior elements, decorative compositions, the backlight of the working area and general lighting. In addition, the LED tape can be used for a dynamic backlight when not only the brightness changes, but also the color (spectrum) of lighting. Even simple tape with white LEDs can offer a variety of shades, from warm to cold. The life of the tape can be up to 50 thousand h.
NEW: KL430 tape (TP-LINK).
It connects to the Wi-Fi network and can be controlled using a mobile application or voice.
Various variants of a decorative metallic profile for LED tape allow you to choose the appropriate suitable interior design.
LED ribbons are better suited for directional lighting, because the angle of propagation of the light flux at a diode is only 120 °. For comparison: the usual lamp spreads light almost all 360 °. Therefore, if you want to make the main backlight of the room filling, in the center of the ceiling it is better to hang a lamp with a lamp of traditional design and supplement such a lamp with LED ribbons along the contours of the ceiling or on the walls.
No other light source compares the LED ability to reproduce different color temperatures of light.
LED ribbon Rubatek Wi-Fi 5 m
How to mount
Before installing, clean and degrease the part of the wall under the sticker. Tapes are attached to bilateral tape or with a glue gun. It is not necessary to use brackets, nails or screws, so as not to damage the protective shell. When installing tapes 12 in a capacity of over 10 W / m on the wall, the aluminum profile for heat removal is pre-fastened.
The compactness of the LED ribbons makes it possible to designers of interiors, if necessary, completely hide the lamps from the eye.
NEW: RT-5000-3838-240-24V RGB tape (arlight) with RGB and white LEDs with high CRI color rendering index.
Multicolor LED RGBrite Arlight.
To select the power supply, it is necessary to multiply the power of 1 m tape in W / M to multiply the required length in meters, and then be sure to add at least 20% of the stock. Appropriate power is selected and controller - controller.
LED tape navigator
How to adjust the brightness
A typical controller with the control panel allows you to adjust the brightness and select the appropriate glow mode from several possible. There are mini-controllers for hidden installations that can be hidden directly into the aluminum profile for fastening the tape. They cost more, but good for decorative installation. There are also models of controllers designed to control several illumination zones from one remote. In some models, remote control over the smartphone is possible.
Cutting tapes are made according to the label specified on it.
Remote Control
Remote Control
Switching cables for ribbons
Yulia Solodova, head of the direction "Lighting" of Lerua Merlen network:
When developing the lighting system, it is worth starting from the selection of the color of the luminous luminous tape. The specification of the tape will help to choose between warm and cold shades of light, which indicates the glow temperature in Kelvin, the higher this temperature, the "colder" visible light. The second important parameter that allows you to determine how many meters the tape will be needed for the project, this is the intensity of the light flux that is measured in lumens per meter. LED ribbon can only be cut in special places. The corresponding marks are located along the entire length of the tape. Depending on the density of the LED location, the section of the cut can be arranged less often or more often, and therefore the segments of the tape in different cases will be of different lengths.
The editorial board thanks Arlight, Leroy Merlin for the help in the preparation of the material.