I'm in the process of turning an old hall cupboard into a display cabinet. The cabinet will be floor to ceiling, nominal height of 2.3m x 1.2m wide, carcased - the walls aren't brilliant for display purposes, internally finished in a satin lustre ivory colour, two full size glass doors and two glass shelves, which should help with light distribution inside the cupboard.My initial thoughts are for two vertical rows of white LED striplights hidden behind each architrave. I like the idea of LEDs because of the minimal heat dissipation.Some questions:-Am I going to be better off with a continuous strip down each side, or should i be looking at 3 pairs of strips, one for each display area?How much useful light do LEDs give for this purpose?Are the strips likely to be enough, or should I also be installing a couple of wide angle LED floods in the top of the cabinetWhat is the colour like with white LEDs? Is it extremely harsh and cold?

|I'm in the process of turning an old hall cupboard into a display cabinet. |The cabinet will be floor to ceiling, nominal height of 2.3m x 1.2m wide, |carcased - the walls aren't brilliant for display purposes, internally |finished in a satin lustre ivory colour, two full size glass doors and two |glass shelves, which should help with light distribution inside the |cupboard.||My initial thoughts are for two vertical rows of white LED striplights |hidden behind each architrave. I like the idea of LEDs because of the |minimal heat dissipation.Saw some of those at Maplins, but not lit||Some questions:-||Am I going to be better off with a continuous strip down each side, or |should i be looking at 3 pairs of strips, one for each display area?||How much useful light do LEDs give for this purpose?||Are the strips likely to be enough, or should I also be installing a couple |of wide angle LED floods in the top of the cabinet||What is the colour like with white LEDs? Is it extremely harsh and...

Not if you buy the right ones. One marketing name is "golden white" try"sunny white". There are probably others.MBQ

Anyone with experience of using LEDs for display lighting?

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|Dave Fawthrop wrote: |> On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 07:49:22 GMT, "." wrote: |>

|>> Dave Fawthrop wrote: |>>> On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:35:26 GMT, "." wrote: |>>>

|>>>> Dave Fawthrop wrote: |>>>>> On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:31:18 GMT, "." wrote: |>>>>>

|>>>>>> Dave Fawthrop wrote: |>>>>>>

|>>>>>>> White LEDs are very *white* |>>>>>

|>>>>> Which is what *I* see. |>>>>>

|>>>>>> IME they are very /blue/ |>>>>

|>>>> |>>>>

|>>>>> What you are seeing is the *difference* between the light sources. |>>>>

|>>>> what I'm seeing is different wavelengths given out by those |>>>> lightsources |>>>>

|>>>>>> very blue, very cold. |>>>>>

|>>>>> Colour is a very personal thing |>>>>

|>>>> it's totally impersonal, measured in Kelvin's. |>>>>

|>>> Kelvins are a *temperature* scale. |>>>

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|>>|>> oh, dear, poor dave :-( |>>

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|>|> Colour temperature is totally inappropriate for measuring the |> wavelengths light from LEDs. What colour temperature is a green LED? | |I don't care ! but here's some reading matter for /you/ ;-) | |

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it demonstrated my point perfectly.

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