Under cabinet LED lighting

[brathnach]

Hey,
 
A bit late to this post. I was doing the exact same as you last year. However, I was adding the lights for more of an effect rather than for functional reasons. I'm in europe but I'm sure they have these over state side also. We call them LED rope lights here so a quick google will show what it is. You can basically cut them at every 1m length and while they will not be as bright as tubes for example I have found them great as they are clean and easy fitting and also very easy to clean etc. 
 
Jim

 

[pete_c]

Welcome to Cocoontech Jim.
 
Yup a friend here remodeled his kitchen a few years back and used rope LED lighting above his cabinets for a nice indirect lighting view.
 
I have been meaning to do that with a few wood / glass cabinets I have.  These currently have halogen/xenon gas pucks on the top and I am using automated switches to dim them down when they turned on.  I have one wall in my home office with a similiar set up on the tops of the bookshelves.  They are easy to get to on a ladder. 
 
I did start redoing the lighting in one set of cabinets purchasing small LED 120VAC cob lights.  Not that sure that its been accepted (WAF) yet as the LED cob lights do have a different look on the glass stuff underneath.  Going slow and probably will try some more stuff.

 

[Neurorad]

Replacing the last set of kitchen cabinets, I'm spec'ing the Lutron Lumaris LED under-cabinet lights.  Lutron rep at the Lutron forums said they dim well with RA2.
 
I'll probably use the WAC LED87 pucks again for the in-cabinet lights, which I know dim well with RA2, but I'll explore Lutron's options.
 
Each will have a circuit, and each circuit will be dimmed with a RA2 dimmer, positioned inside the cabinets.  Control will be from nearby keypads.

 

[zenix]

Dimmable LED tape lights on magnetic dimmer work just fine with 6NA. And since LED tape is cut-to-size, you can make lamps as short or as long as needed.