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Hi Alessandro,

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

cheers,

Matt




On 23 Apr 2014, at 11:06, Alessandro Esposito wrote:

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> Dear all,
>
>    we are refurbishing our imaging facilities and we were  
> considering the
> installation of low level lighting in the rooms for two different  
> purposes:
>
>
>
> 1) Safely working in the room without generating background signal in
> images
>
>
>
> 2) Safely working in the room avoiding activation of light-inducible  
> systems
>
>
>
> 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).
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
>
>
> Alessandro
>










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