what temperature are your led ucls?
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Comments (9)Tresco Sticklight: 22" Single Stick LED, 5000K, Nickel. Pretty high Kelvin rating, Peke: will be very bright LED. Hard on the eyes perhaps as ucl. Also, no clear spec sheet attached. I'd shy away and keep looking. Have you checked Lowe's Utilitech? They have a low profile direct wire, decent diffusion, good sizes, and reasonable price. They are off, low, high. NOT dimmable, but a Lowe's lighting man told me Utilitech on a dimmer may be soon out in Lowes. I hope so as I'm looking for direct wire low profile dimmable too. Also, look at Kichler's low profile (0.5 inch) low voltage LED which can be connected via direct wire romex with power supply in junction box I've been told. They can be dimmed. I think they are 3000 Kelvin. Don't know if diffuser comes with....See Moreled ucl 4 dummies ... well, dummy.
Comments (6)David -- I'm sorry for the delay in my response -- I thought I had posted earlier but I must have forgotten to send what I wrote after viewing it. .... thank you so much for the generosity of your time and shared expertise. As it happens it's so hard for me to figure out questions to pose coming from so far away understanding-wise. I'm actually a little confused by your very first comment. I'd like to try to think through it and would appreciate someone correcting my reasoning if you're willing: Isn't the opposite of low voltage not-low voltage? That is, normal voltage? So would normal voltage (that would be 110V, right?) be a synonym for direct wire system? Thus you can't have a direct-wired low voltage system? Please forgive me for such dim understanding ... is this right? Electricity comes to the pole outside of the house at some high voltage. A transformer at the pole steps it down to 240V and then somewhere, maybe the electrical box, it gets split to 110V which is what is used to run all the lamps in the house, basically everything but your ovens. So that's "wired" and that's 'normal' voltage. Then 'low' voltage would have to be further stepped down -- that's what those transformer boxes everyone talks about sticking in their cabinets or in the basement do, right? They must be like the big cylinder out on the pole stepping down electricity from the high tension wires, they must step electricity down from 110V to something lower to run the LED lights.... Am I understanding that right please? Because otherwise I can't fathom this statement: "you are looking at a direct wire system not low voltage". So am I right about this: I read somewhere long ago that those little transformer boxes which are always hot, are always on - that's why they're hot. So they're always on, always drawing current, always setting up electrical fields inside your house, right? ...except now I'm thinking ... these things would always be on if you *plugged them into a plug and then switched them on/off*. So ... if I had one of those switched lamps with a transformer plugged into a wall *it* would always be drawing current through the lamp whether on or off because there was no switch to the outlet. However, if you plugged the lamp into a switched outlet it could turn off the transformer box. Is this right? Because if so then by analogy, the transformers for UCL LEDs could actually be switched and therefore off.... Please if you wouldn't mind following through with this electricity primer, would someone mind telling me if I'm getting this right? I'm asking because this is the reasoning behind my thinking I don't want transformers -- I don't want those things "on" all the time....See Moreled ucl--what are you using?
Comments (15)My local lighting company showed me the new MaxLite, just updated to 3 LED's per bulb in their 6 and 18" sizes (if I'm recalling correctly). Has a white diffuser and is direct wire with 0.88" profile. 2700 Kelvins. More LED's per inch is the change. It was plenty bright. InspiredLED and I have been talking: gave them my kitchen design and measurements and they gave me a least expensive to date quote for their LED stick on tape uses low voltage wire, transformer and dimmer switch. This is a great solution for LED glass cabinets. InspiredLED won an Houzz 2013 award for lighting and cost competitiveness. Unilume is direct wire built in transformer, low profile but way expnsive. Has advantages of phosporus coating, 90 CRI (color rendering index), 3000 kelvin (bright) or 2700 (warm). It'd love to be able to afford them due to my low profile light rail but doubt I will. Good luck BuiltinVA. I think it's most helpful to go to a lighting store or two or three until you find a specialist really willing to work with your space requirements and your budget. It was all greek to me before i did this, but lighting is not my cup of tea. Also, are you doing recessed lighting? If so, are you going with dedicated LED (meaning no chance for ICD or halogen in the fixture)? I stared up at a recessed LED bulb and couldn't handle how bright it was. Tad worried it's not the right light for me or desire for warm light at night not bright....See Moreucl - led - dimming
Comments (10)I have Tech Lighting "Unilume" LED under-cabinet lights. Very nice but also very pricy; I probably wouldn't have bought them without the 50% discount I got. The Unilumes dim nicely if you install the right dimmer. (They provide a list of ones they've tested.) I haven't moved in yet so I can't say whether I'll ever actually use it. My electrician told me he dims his sometimes for mood lighting when eating or entertaining in his great room that's open to the kitchen. He talked me into putting in outlets for dimmable over cabinet lights for the same reason. LEDs usually want an "ELV" dimmer: Electronic Low Voltage or some such thing....See Moreathomesewing
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