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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