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Sunbrite LED power strips work really well. They sell a controller that
lets you set a brightness level, then toggle them on and off with a touch.
You can get them from digikey:
Strips:
http://www.digikey.ca/product-search/en/optoelectronics/leds-high-brightness-power-modules/525140?k=sunbrite
Control and power modules:
http://www.digikey.ca/product-detail/en/SSP-DM0/67-2154-ND/3065105
DC Power supply:
http://www.digikey.ca/product-detail/en/SSP-PW024/67-2157-ND/3065102
Note you can chain multiple strips together on one controller. Here's a
link to all the bits and bobs that support the strips:
http://www.digikey.ca/product-search/en?FV=fff40008,fff80054,ffec8294
I glued a bunch of high strength magnets to one of mine and stuck it on the
underside of a steel cabinet. When I need light up close I can just pull it
off and use it like a light wand.
Craig Brideau
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 6:13 AM, Matthew Pearson <
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> Hi Alessandro,
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> We recently installed something similar to the underside of our electrical
> trunking (roughly 1m above floor). Adhesive 5m per reel LED strips, each
> LED has an RGB component so you can produce various colours if your heart
> so desires. They also come with a small battery powered IR remote which
> allows you to change the colours, dim to various levels etc. We don't have
> motion detection but the LED's are left on most of the time and the low
> intensity is enough to stop you tripping over anything but doesn't affect
> imaging.
>
> They were purchased from ebay of all places and have no complaints:
> http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/5M-3528-SMD-RGB-300-LEDs-
> Waterproof-Flexible-Strip-Lighting12V-Receiver-Remote-/261286546761
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> cheers,
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> Matt
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> On 23 Apr 2014, at 11:06, Alessandro Esposito wrote:
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>> Dear all,
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>> we are refurbishing our imaging facilities and we were considering the
>> installation of low level lighting in the rooms for two different
>> purposes:
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>> 1) Safely working in the room without generating background signal in
>> images
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>> 2) Safely working in the room avoiding activation of light-inducible
>> systems
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>> We do have desk lamps, sometimes positioned on the floor or LED spot
>> lights of different colour when we need the room to be a dark room (in
>> green or red light).
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>> However, I was thinking to get a more elegant solution such as LED strips
>> positioned under the data and power trunking we have in each room. I was
>> also considering that, for those rooms where a corridor is present,
>> perhaps
>> these strips could be a.) dimmed at an appropiate and fixed intensity and
>> b.) activated by motion.
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>>
>>
>> We are designing this with off-the-shelf LED strips and controllers, but I
>> was wondering if any of you had already implemented something like this
>> and could advice solutions or things that seemed good ideas but then
>> resulted in inefficient or unuseful gadgets.
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>> Kind regards,
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>> Alessandro
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