LED Stairway Lighting

Actually I noticed that All Electronics has the flexible rolls to cut too.  They also have the lights above in various colors including warm white.  The ones above though are not flexible but rigid 3 LED lamps made for indoors and outdoors.
 
I did order 10 more of these but in the warm white colors.  The price is good.
 
Yes I realize they are made for the strips, but if the width is right, ...  I am wondering if the 3528 in warm white will be bright enough even in the 600 density.  These modules sound like they are using brighter leds.
 
They are bright - extremely bright.  I don't have them in a diffuser, but light up the kitchen and the whole area around it.  A relative of mine used just under 2 rolls to light up his whole under-house wine cellar and it's like daytime in there.  The roll of SMD5050 Tri-color LED's light up pretty much my whole downstairs.
 
And for the price they're cheap enough to try out and play with to see if you like them.
 
Pete - When I used to order these from China directly, they came in all sorts of varieties including rigid, flexible, with different levels of waterproofing (including none at all) and you could even specify the ribbon color for white or natural.  Still the same as far as being able to cut them every 3 LED's.  I'm sure you can find them all different ways if you look.
 
Thanks Work2Play.  
 
Yup here OP - Monk started me looking here.  Still keeping the UL lighting in place but now addressing the whole LED thing for indirect lighting.  (winter project as we seemed to have skipped fall and going right to winter here in the midwest)
 
Trying these outside in a similiar manner to the Kichler lighting LED devices; which were utilized in stone walls (many here) and outdoor steps et al. 
 
Still looking to convert all indoor indirect and direct lighting stuff to LED's. 
 
These are just wood cabinets with little mini spots inside and smaller puck xenon lighting on the top (which get really hot).
 
The top indirect lighting is all dimmed down with UPB at 120VAC.  Can you dim these 12VDC LED lamps with UPB and the right transformer?
 
Work2Play said:
They are bright - extremely bright.  I don't have them in a diffuser, but light up the kitchen and the whole area around it.  A relative of mine used just under 2 rolls to light up his whole under-house wine cellar and it's like daytime in there.  The roll of SMD5050 Tri-color LED's light up pretty much my whole downstairs.
 
And for the price they're cheap enough to try out and play with to see if you like them.
 
Pete - When I used to order these from China directly, they came in all sorts of varieties including rigid, flexible, with different levels of waterproofing (including none at all) and you could even specify the ribbon color for white or natural.  Still the same as far as being able to cut them every 3 LED's.  I'm sure you can find them all different ways if you look.
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Pics?
 
Not the best pictures by any means - these were as I was just messing around with them draped across the top and wires still hanging a bit.  I'll admit when I first installed them I used the special clips they sell - they work like ribbon cable clips, and they're absolute garbage.  Some sections quit working so I've been meaning to buy some diffusers and solder them but haven't gotten to it yet; although I may check out some of the ebay ones if I can find nice looking flat ones.
 
These are with all other lights off except the ribbons - with the overhead lights on plus the ribbons the fill is even better - but it made the biggest difference working in the kitchen having that extra light.
 
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That looks nice with your white under cabinet areas.  I am working with black granite, dark cabinets & dark slate backsplash.  So I have to worry about eliminating glare as well as sufficient light.  I may try some of the 5050 white 300 per 5m strips in the 45deg diffuser channels.
 
I used the flexible strip lights for a couple steps in the theater.  With it always being so dark (and the regular rope lights burning out) I recently switched.  
 
Flexible rope lights
Transformer
Dimmer
 
I found without the dimmer, it was way too bright and reflected off my screen.  I just ran pretty small gauge wire (or large gauge I guess) 22/2 security wire to each step.  I cut to size, soldered and shrink wrapped the ends to the wire.  No noticeable voltage drop or variations in brightness.  The adhesive back mostly sticks to the carpet, probably better to a solid substrate.  Below is a picture taken in the dark.
 
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Nice Pics, guys! I got my roll and have not opened it yet. Probably have to wait till next weekend. More Pics! More Links!
 
Monk said:
How to control is a good question. Work2Play, when you first supply power, will they come on by themselves, or do you have to use the remote? If they do come on by themselves, what color is it on?
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Ok - in case anyone was curious - the kit I bought does come back on simply by applying power. It will display the last selected color to include whatever brightness it was set to.
 
Reviving an old thread to ask about how these held up over time.  I am thinking seriously about using some of the strips under kitchen cabinets and various places.  Would be nice to get rid of the florescent fixtures that hum but I have read some things about poor life especially when run at 12V.  I probably could dim them a bit for most of my applications.  Sticking them on aluminum helps a little to get the heat out but has limited improvement on life AFAIK.  Do I need to buy name brand for good life?
 
Funny you should ask!  
 
The controller that runs my over-cabinet accent lights has had a partial failure on one channel - which means one of the colors (Red I think) is always on at full brightness but I can mix in the other colors to get full white or other shades.  This is the crappy Chinese controller.  I really should change that but I've been lazy.
 
The under cabinet lights look great - but 2 years later I've still not gone back to solder those crap connections from the slide-in connectors so as such I have a portion that's out.  
 
All that said, I still love these lights and I see them spec'd as accent lighting in the highest of high-end homes ($50M+ even) - but the sourcing does matter a bit... when I was importing them direct from China, I was bringing in A quality parts... now with cost being the biggest driver, I bet it's more C and maybe B quality making it here.  At first they'll look similar but should degrade differently... then again, the cost is SO low now that it probably doesn't matter if you replace a strip in 5 years any more than it'd matter if you replaced a bulb in the past.
 
I do love the aluminum channel with diffuser options that are out now.   When I do redo the kitchen cabinet lights, I will absolutely use that.
 
On another note - a family member has an under-house (crawlspace) wine cellar...  you'd have to see pics - it's amazing for what it is... it's lit with 30' of LED strip lighting on aluminum backing and it's like daylight under there... and it's held up perfectly.
 
Work2play,
 
Could you post a few links to the channel, diffusers and strips that fit?
 
For most of my applications the LED strip will be hidden so I was thinking I would just stick the strip on the wood or probably stick the strip on aluminum and then fasten that to wood.
 
But the diffusers may give better looking lighting and in a few places where the strips would show it would be needed.
 
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