Installation & Purchase Guide of LED strip light
author: Ivan Huang
2022-01-18
LED strip light is soft and not dazzling, and can greatly promote the faction degree of space and design sense. With the popularization of light knowledge and attention to the lighting atmosphere, the application of led linear light in home spaces is more and more.
How should home space choose led linear light? Today we talk about lighting:
Which space is suitable for different types of led linear light？
How to apply it?
What are the installation details that need to attend?
1. Low voltage led strip
Application: ceiling hidden light, curtain box hidden light, beside light, cabinet light
China’s household electricity is AC220V, and many current led light are DC12V, 24V, 48W such low voltage electricity. Compared with high-voltage led products, low-voltage lighting have higher safety and longer service life. The volume of lighting can be made smaller.
The most important thing is that there is no strobe, and the light is healthier for eyes.
△ The most common low voltage led strip light
The most common low-voltage led strip light, the speicification is 60-120led per meter, 5-10 meters a reel, 50-10cm with a cutting position, and usually with adhesive, can be directlt attached to the lighting slot.
Some led strip light with PVC or silicone tube, can be waterproof:
△IP20 led strip light VS Silicone tube led strip light
Low-voltage led strip light is very much applied in home space, such as ceiling hidden light, curtain box hidden light, beside light, cabinet light, cabinet bottom light, bed bottom light and so on.
As long as it is nessessary to hide the light, can use low-voltage led strip light.
△ Ceiling hidden light, need to do the ceiling, in the ceiling around the hidden led strip
△ LED Strip Light is hidden in the curtain box, which makes perfect use of the structure of the curtain box and is very convenient.
△LED strip light is hidden inside ark& LED strip is hidden at the bottom of ark, hold both practical and design feeling
The installation of the led strip light greatly affects the light effect.
Take the most common ceiling hidden led strip(partial suspended ceiling/light trough hidden strip) as an example. There are two most common methods: one is installed in the inner wall of the strip groove, one is installed in the center of the strip groove:
△ left：45° aluminum groove mounted on led strip light wall right：Centrally mounted
The two types of light have very different effects. The light of the former is uniform and gradual, the light looks more natural, soft and textured, and the feeling of “no light” is obvious; And the luminious surface, the visual effect is
Close to nature “do not see light” led strip light effect, it is the ultimate pursuit that dimensional led strip designs, accordingly, more recommend the installation way of former
△Two different installation methods, the former light more natural texture
Curtain box or smallpox edge hides the lamp, also have two kinds of common practice. One is installed on the top of the ceiling, and the other is installed in the center of the lamp trough. Similarly, installed in the ceiling, the light is more natural and soft, there is an atmosphere, the former installation is more recommended:
△ left：Mounted on the ceiling right：Installed in the center of the lamp trough
In addition to the classic ceiling hidden lamp, curtain box hidden lamp, bedside lamp belt, bedroom/kitchen ceiling lamp belt at the bottom of the way more and more popular, user-friendly light, enhance the practicality of lighting and home space comfort.
△ Method for installing headboard led strip
△ Installation method of led strip under the hanging cabinet
In addition to installation position, lamp strap installation details are also important. Lighting designers remind people to pay attention to two points:
1. The low-voltage lamp belt needs to be equipped with a transformer power supply. Because low-voltage power is supplied by DC, it decays more than high-voltage power, and the end strip tends to look less bright.
Therefore, the general 10m lamp belt needs to be equipped with a transformer power supply. If the lamp belt is long, prepare multiple transformer power supplies. Connect the power supply to the lamp belt in series to ensure that the light is even and bright.
△ Low-voltage led strip needs power supply△ Standard Connection Way
2. Because the led strip light is relatively soft, direct installation is likely to pull straight. If the installation is not straight, the edge of the light is bumpy, it will be very ugly. Therefore, it is best to buy PVC or aluminum card slot, the lamp belt fixed straightening, the light effect is very much better.
△ Flat slot VS 45° Angle slot
Bezel-less aluminum groove LED strip light
Suitable space: ceiling seamless installation, wall embedded installation
As more and more attention is paid to lighting design in home space, the application of aluminum groove lamp belt is more and more.
Aluminum LED rigid light is based on low-voltage led strip light, added alumimum profile and PC cover. Which is different with normal led strip light which only can be hidden. Aluminum profile plus led strip light can make bezel-less light effect, and it’s also add the richness and beauty to the lighting design.
△ Seveal different aluminum profile types
The aluminum slot strip can be installed in the center of the ceiling and does not need to be hidden. After adding PC lampshade, luminous is bright and downy not dazzling, the light belt without frame greatly promoted the design sense of the space.
In the design space that is popular in a lot of Euro and American country, aluminous trough light is taken to replace tradition advocate light and barrel shoot light gradually, be used at dimensional advocate illume, brought the qualitative leap that lives in illume. Taking corridor lighting as an example, an aluminum slot lamp belt is used to replace the traditional down shot light, which greatly improves the texture and comfort of space lighting.△ Bezel-less aluminum groove led strip light as the main lighting
However, or a word of warning: European and American countries are not so high requirements for lighting brightness, more attention to the atmosphere: And our country dweller is more accustomed to high brightness, when using aluminum-slot led strip as sitting room advocate illuminance, need according to individual preference and use habit, the illuminant with enough brightness layout; or increase the auxiliary illuminant such as shoot light, floor light, achieve ideal space bright brightness.
△ Installation method of aluminum groove led strip light
The installation mode of aluminum groove led strip is not complicated. After slotting on the profile, the aluminum groove led strip is loaded, and then the putty is painted to cover it, which has more advantages than the complex hidden light mode of low-voltage led strip light.
△ The aluminum groove led strip does not waste the ceiling height, and the flat design makes the space look more open △ Various creative applications of aluminum groove led strip light
Aluminum slot led strip light can also be used for the space of Yin Angle, Yang Angle, design freedom is very high, decorative, so it is favored by designers, is widely used in various creative design, accelerate the popularity of aluminum slot led strip light.
Hight-voltage LED Strip Light and T5 LED Light
Suitable for: commercial space
Low-voltage led strip and aluminum groove led strip light are the most mainstream led strip products in the current home space.
In addition to these two types of strips, there are old high voltage strips and T5 tubes. However, these two kinds of led strip are mainly used for commercial space at present, and the application of home space is becoming less and less.
Here is a brief introduction:
High-voltage LED Strip Light △ High voltage led strip light are often used for outdoor municipal lighting
The difference between the high voltage led strip light and the low voltage led strip light is that it can be directly connected to the high voltage of 220V, without the need for a transformer (but the need for a driver). A bundle of high-voltage wires is usually dozens of meters long. Since brightness does not decay, only one drive is required for each strip.
Compared with low voltage led strip light, high voltage led strip light has the advantage of low cost and stable brightness. The disadvantage is that the luminance is too high, more dazzling, and easy to have stroboscope. Therefore, although high voltage led strip light can also be used for home space, but less and less people use, more used for outdoor lighting, municipal lighting.
△ T5 tube LED Light
T5 tube light is also one of the traditional light source, the advantage is light uniformity, easy maintenance, but with the stability and life of LED, T5 tube led light easy maintenance characteristics are less and less attractive. And T5 lighting brightness is usually relatively high, in the home space application is easy to be too dazzling, more suitable for commercial space.
How should home space choose led linear light? Today we talk about lighting:
Which space is suitable for different types of led linear light？
How to apply it?
What are the installation details that need to attend?
1. Low voltage led strip
Application: ceiling hidden light, curtain box hidden light, beside light, cabinet light
China’s household electricity is AC220V, and many current led light are DC12V, 24V, 48W such low voltage electricity. Compared with high-voltage led products, low-voltage lighting have higher safety and longer service life. The volume of lighting can be made smaller.
The most important thing is that there is no strobe, and the light is healthier for eyes.
△ The most common low voltage led strip light
The most common low-voltage led strip light, the speicification is 60-120led per meter, 5-10 meters a reel, 50-10cm with a cutting position, and usually with adhesive, can be directlt attached to the lighting slot.
Some led strip light with PVC or silicone tube, can be waterproof:
△IP20 led strip light VS Silicone tube led strip light
Low-voltage led strip light is very much applied in home space, such as ceiling hidden light, curtain box hidden light, beside light, cabinet light, cabinet bottom light, bed bottom light and so on.
As long as it is nessessary to hide the light, can use low-voltage led strip light.
△ Ceiling hidden light, need to do the ceiling, in the ceiling around the hidden led strip
△ LED Strip Light is hidden in the curtain box, which makes perfect use of the structure of the curtain box and is very convenient.
△LED strip light is hidden inside ark& LED strip is hidden at the bottom of ark, hold both practical and design feeling
The installation of the led strip light greatly affects the light effect.
Take the most common ceiling hidden led strip(partial suspended ceiling/light trough hidden strip) as an example. There are two most common methods: one is installed in the inner wall of the strip groove, one is installed in the center of the strip groove:
△ left：45° aluminum groove mounted on led strip light wall right：Centrally mounted
The two types of light have very different effects. The light of the former is uniform and gradual, the light looks more natural, soft and textured, and the feeling of “no light” is obvious; And the luminious surface, the visual effect is
Close to nature “do not see light” led strip light effect, it is the ultimate pursuit that dimensional led strip designs, accordingly, more recommend the installation way of former
△Two different installation methods, the former light more natural texture
Curtain box or smallpox edge hides the lamp, also have two kinds of common practice. One is installed on the top of the ceiling, and the other is installed in the center of the lamp trough. Similarly, installed in the ceiling, the light is more natural and soft, there is an atmosphere, the former installation is more recommended:
△ left：Mounted on the ceiling right：Installed in the center of the lamp trough
In addition to the classic ceiling hidden lamp, curtain box hidden lamp, bedside lamp belt, bedroom/kitchen ceiling lamp belt at the bottom of the way more and more popular, user-friendly light, enhance the practicality of lighting and home space comfort.
△ Method for installing headboard led strip
△ Installation method of led strip under the hanging cabinet
In addition to installation position, lamp strap installation details are also important. Lighting designers remind people to pay attention to two points:
1. The low-voltage lamp belt needs to be equipped with a transformer power supply. Because low-voltage power is supplied by DC, it decays more than high-voltage power, and the end strip tends to look less bright.
Therefore, the general 10m lamp belt needs to be equipped with a transformer power supply. If the lamp belt is long, prepare multiple transformer power supplies. Connect the power supply to the lamp belt in series to ensure that the light is even and bright.
△ Low-voltage led strip needs power supply△ Standard Connection Way
2. Because the led strip light is relatively soft, direct installation is likely to pull straight. If the installation is not straight, the edge of the light is bumpy, it will be very ugly. Therefore, it is best to buy PVC or aluminum card slot, the lamp belt fixed straightening, the light effect is very much better.
△ Flat slot VS 45° Angle slot
Bezel-less aluminum groove LED strip light
Suitable space: ceiling seamless installation, wall embedded installation
As more and more attention is paid to lighting design in home space, the application of aluminum groove lamp belt is more and more.
Aluminum LED rigid light is based on low-voltage led strip light, added alumimum profile and PC cover. Which is different with normal led strip light which only can be hidden. Aluminum profile plus led strip light can make bezel-less light effect, and it’s also add the richness and beauty to the lighting design.
△ Seveal different aluminum profile types
The aluminum slot strip can be installed in the center of the ceiling and does not need to be hidden. After adding PC lampshade, luminous is bright and downy not dazzling, the light belt without frame greatly promoted the design sense of the space.
In the design space that is popular in a lot of Euro and American country, aluminous trough light is taken to replace tradition advocate light and barrel shoot light gradually, be used at dimensional advocate illume, brought the qualitative leap that lives in illume. Taking corridor lighting as an example, an aluminum slot lamp belt is used to replace the traditional down shot light, which greatly improves the texture and comfort of space lighting.△ Bezel-less aluminum groove led strip light as the main lighting
However, or a word of warning: European and American countries are not so high requirements for lighting brightness, more attention to the atmosphere: And our country dweller is more accustomed to high brightness, when using aluminum-slot led strip as sitting room advocate illuminance, need according to individual preference and use habit, the illuminant with enough brightness layout; or increase the auxiliary illuminant such as shoot light, floor light, achieve ideal space bright brightness.
△ Installation method of aluminum groove led strip light
The installation mode of aluminum groove led strip is not complicated. After slotting on the profile, the aluminum groove led strip is loaded, and then the putty is painted to cover it, which has more advantages than the complex hidden light mode of low-voltage led strip light.
△ The aluminum groove led strip does not waste the ceiling height, and the flat design makes the space look more open △ Various creative applications of aluminum groove led strip light
Aluminum slot led strip light can also be used for the space of Yin Angle, Yang Angle, design freedom is very high, decorative, so it is favored by designers, is widely used in various creative design, accelerate the popularity of aluminum slot led strip light.
Hight-voltage LED Strip Light and T5 LED Light
Suitable for: commercial space
Low-voltage led strip and aluminum groove led strip light are the most mainstream led strip products in the current home space.
In addition to these two types of strips, there are old high voltage strips and T5 tubes. However, these two kinds of led strip are mainly used for commercial space at present, and the application of home space is becoming less and less.
Here is a brief introduction:
High-voltage LED Strip Light △ High voltage led strip light are often used for outdoor municipal lighting
The difference between the high voltage led strip light and the low voltage led strip light is that it can be directly connected to the high voltage of 220V, without the need for a transformer (but the need for a driver). A bundle of high-voltage wires is usually dozens of meters long. Since brightness does not decay, only one drive is required for each strip.
Compared with low voltage led strip light, high voltage led strip light has the advantage of low cost and stable brightness. The disadvantage is that the luminance is too high, more dazzling, and easy to have stroboscope. Therefore, although high voltage led strip light can also be used for home space, but less and less people use, more used for outdoor lighting, municipal lighting.
△ T5 tube LED Light
T5 tube light is also one of the traditional light source, the advantage is light uniformity, easy maintenance, but with the stability and life of LED, T5 tube led light easy maintenance characteristics are less and less attractive. And T5 lighting brightness is usually relatively high, in the home space application is easy to be too dazzling, more suitable for commercial space.