dim4fun, Thanks for the reply. Because I hadn't heard anything here I also posted this in the Kitchen forum. I got a few responses, but I have yet to hear from *anybody* about the Juno. Is it new, so that nobody has had a chance to discover and use it yet? Or is there some other reason. The people over on the Kitchen forum are not all, or even mostly, DIY people. From my perspective it seems to make a lot more sense to choose something that has a lot of favorable user experience than something that *might* be good but for which no user experience is available.

I just went back to check the display in our local store that carries both Kichler and Seagull. They have a display setup with undercabinet lights over a dark granite countertop. It shows lights mounted near the front vs near the back for comparison. They also compare strip/linear lights vs a white enclosed box similar to what I have seen for many fluorescent and xenon lights. Even with the lights off, the white box reflected too much in the granite, and it was blinding when the lights were on. In addition to mounting the strip along the front edge to the cabinet, they added a small L-shaped channel of aluminum to cover the lights--all light is directed toward the backsplash. You could not see any reflection at all. I believe this would be a simple addition to any brand of linear/strip lighting. Because Jon reminded me that some people have had complaints about Kichler linear system, we eliminated that brand. Pegasus sounds good and I will use that website for information, but we probably will go with Seagull because it is readily available locally and the store seems very familiar with the product. Jon, thanks for the reminder about the gauge of the wire. I don't think about such things, but I will be sure the electrician pays attention to matching his wire to our system.

I have installed flourescents both under my cabinets and above,with really excellent results. The above cabinet units are the regular T8 strips mounted at the back of the cabinets, and the undercounter units are like the Kichler units, but are ajustable to minimize the reflection on the counter.They also were better that having the reflection of the many Xenon lamps needed to do the same job We put the upper units in as an afterthought, but they have become our first-light source, and make a great night light. The undercounter units certainly didn't detract from our tile back splash. In both cases I used lamps that were 3500k with an 85 CRI

Trinity_2010 - Xenon bulbs are low voltage. Your Kichler strips are line voltage because they have the transformer built into the strip that take the xenons from low voltage to line voltage. You will still need a low voltage dimmer, either a "magnetic low voltage dimmer" or an "electronic low voltage dimmer". Check with the Kichler installation instructions, or call the Kichler customer service phone number, to find out which low voltage dimmer your strips need. While low voltage dimmers are more expensive than line voltage dimmers, you do not need to spend the $90 that Coffeebeantown quoted. We purchased two electronic low voltage dimmers for our Juno xenon strips (one dimmer for each side of the kitchen). Ours (the Leviton IllumaTech IPE04-1LZ) cost about $47 each. There's also the Lutron Skylark SELV-300P for about $45. Another choice is the Lutron Diva DVELV-300P which is a bit more at $60, but still not as high as the $90 mentioned previously. Lutron makes several other designs for low voltage dimmers, and you can spend more if you want, but you don't have to. Keep in mind the total cost of your kitchen re-do, and what percentage of that is the low voltage dimmer cost of $50 or so.