basementmonkey
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Guys, ladies, & trolls
Looking for guidance from the community -- we are finishing our basement and need lighting advice. The main room is 40' x 14' and we are building a floating (suspended) coffered ceiling with LED strip hiding in the crown moulding for accent. The coffered ceiling will be 3 sections wide x 7 sections long or 21 individual pockets. They are roughly 5' x 6' each. I would like to have each rectangle lit so I need ~ 462' linear feet of led strip lighting. Based on the length I'm thinking I would do (3) discrete drivers each powering 7 squares of the ceiling. After researching I would like the following features:
1) RGB diode for color manipulation
2) 24V DC for longer runs
3) Dimmable? I know this isn't truly possible but concerned this may be too much light- maybe less diodes per foot?
4) CRI? Higher the better right?
5) Warm light- 2700K ideal but is this feasible?
6) Controls? Would like to control this via bluetooth or wifi ideally. It would be cool to control each of the 3 sections independently to create team colors for a ball game for example.
7) I read about 5050 or 3528 or 5760 chips. Looking for a higher lumens/watt technology with decent CRI. 5050 seems to be the old grand daddy of the bunch
If this was your basement how would you finish the led strip lighting? Looking for a vendor to order this configuration from as well- looking for quality people first and pricing second.
Thanks!
Looking for guidance from the community -- we are finishing our basement and need lighting advice. The main room is 40' x 14' and we are building a floating (suspended) coffered ceiling with LED strip hiding in the crown moulding for accent. The coffered ceiling will be 3 sections wide x 7 sections long or 21 individual pockets. They are roughly 5' x 6' each. I would like to have each rectangle lit so I need ~ 462' linear feet of led strip lighting. Based on the length I'm thinking I would do (3) discrete drivers each powering 7 squares of the ceiling. After researching I would like the following features:
1) RGB diode for color manipulation
2) 24V DC for longer runs
3) Dimmable? I know this isn't truly possible but concerned this may be too much light- maybe less diodes per foot?
4) CRI? Higher the better right?
5) Warm light- 2700K ideal but is this feasible?
6) Controls? Would like to control this via bluetooth or wifi ideally. It would be cool to control each of the 3 sections independently to create team colors for a ball game for example.
7) I read about 5050 or 3528 or 5760 chips. Looking for a higher lumens/watt technology with decent CRI. 5050 seems to be the old grand daddy of the bunch
If this was your basement how would you finish the led strip lighting? Looking for a vendor to order this configuration from as well- looking for quality people first and pricing second.
Thanks!