pete_c
Guru
Over the last few weeks been tinkering and building LED tracks using warm white and white white LED lamps.
1 - For the stove area installed multiple LED tracks which are only switched at the wall switch using a micro 1 AMP 120 VAC to 12 VDC LED power supply.
The coloring of the stove is black and aluminum. The lighting is high relating to WAF and only utilized on demand. I did add one track of lighting to the underside of the microwave (with lighting and fan). There were three small screws holding the metal shielding to the bottom of the microwave. Removed screws and installed three brackets / clips to hold the aluminum track of lighting. Looks OEM.
2 - The other kitchen endeavor used SMD5050 dense white white lighting. This is dim at night and bright during the day. First experiment was:
A - using micro LCD 1.25 AMP power supply to a Mosquitto controlled updated firmware Sonoff SV device with a manual dimmer on it. Powering on and off the LED micro PS via a regular decora style wall switch.
B - Purchased the above mentioned RGB controller and upgraded the firmware on it yesterday. It has 5 channels: RGB, white white and warm white. I configured it for only white white control using mosquitto. Works great and it remembers the settings. Only manual control is via the wall switch. There is no manual dimming on it unless I add a pot to it. Easy to modify board with 4 traces and holes for JTAG and flashing jumper. Soldered on the JTAG and flashing jumper pins. Wrote the device specific firmware to it and I was good to go. The firmware boots up the device in AP mode. Here set NTP and a static IP address on it. Even lets you telnet to the device. Then configured it for Mosquitto on and off and dimming. Took maybe 20 minutes.
Probably will never do RGB with these devices and will using them for single color dimming. For $8 though it is work the price. IE: micro PS is around $8 plus price of $8 for controller plus price of aluminum tracks and diffuser. I found that soldering the power leads to the LED strips is best versus the clips that come with the LED strips.
C - this endeavor was for some book shelves in the home office. These are about 7 foot X 4 foot and I have two of them in the office. Here was using halogen style pucks for indirect lighting and dimming them via a UPB switch. A link from the wall switch to the lamp module. Worked fine. Here purchased a dimmable LED power supply and used warm white strips of LEDs. Dims fine with UPB switch except you do not really notice the dimming until you are at 50% or less. Here decided to put a dual decora toggle face plate on the universal UPB base. One toggle controls two office lamps and one controls the LED lamps. Using the UPB automation for these LEDs and it works great.
1 - For the stove area installed multiple LED tracks which are only switched at the wall switch using a micro 1 AMP 120 VAC to 12 VDC LED power supply.
The coloring of the stove is black and aluminum. The lighting is high relating to WAF and only utilized on demand. I did add one track of lighting to the underside of the microwave (with lighting and fan). There were three small screws holding the metal shielding to the bottom of the microwave. Removed screws and installed three brackets / clips to hold the aluminum track of lighting. Looks OEM.
2 - The other kitchen endeavor used SMD5050 dense white white lighting. This is dim at night and bright during the day. First experiment was:
A - using micro LCD 1.25 AMP power supply to a Mosquitto controlled updated firmware Sonoff SV device with a manual dimmer on it. Powering on and off the LED micro PS via a regular decora style wall switch.
B - Purchased the above mentioned RGB controller and upgraded the firmware on it yesterday. It has 5 channels: RGB, white white and warm white. I configured it for only white white control using mosquitto. Works great and it remembers the settings. Only manual control is via the wall switch. There is no manual dimming on it unless I add a pot to it. Easy to modify board with 4 traces and holes for JTAG and flashing jumper. Soldered on the JTAG and flashing jumper pins. Wrote the device specific firmware to it and I was good to go. The firmware boots up the device in AP mode. Here set NTP and a static IP address on it. Even lets you telnet to the device. Then configured it for Mosquitto on and off and dimming. Took maybe 20 minutes.
Probably will never do RGB with these devices and will using them for single color dimming. For $8 though it is work the price. IE: micro PS is around $8 plus price of $8 for controller plus price of aluminum tracks and diffuser. I found that soldering the power leads to the LED strips is best versus the clips that come with the LED strips.
C - this endeavor was for some book shelves in the home office. These are about 7 foot X 4 foot and I have two of them in the office. Here was using halogen style pucks for indirect lighting and dimming them via a UPB switch. A link from the wall switch to the lamp module. Worked fine. Here purchased a dimmable LED power supply and used warm white strips of LEDs. Dims fine with UPB switch except you do not really notice the dimming until you are at 50% or less. Here decided to put a dual decora toggle face plate on the universal UPB base. One toggle controls two office lamps and one controls the LED lamps. Using the UPB automation for these LEDs and it works great.
