Timeline for Make LED light strip darker
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| Oct 10, 2022 at 0:13 | comment | added | FreeMan | @wfgeo I'm not entirely sure how you've wired this, but it doesn't sound like it meets NEC. You can't have cordage (i.e. extension cord) buried in a wall, and you can't have cable (i.e. NM-B or "Romex") used outside a wall. Somehow, somewhere, it sounds like you've got one or the other. You'll probably be fine, but if you're not, you might find that the insurance company decides to deny your claim for illegal wiring... | |
| Oct 9, 2022 at 22:54 | comment | added | dandavis | actually they emit 1.5 to 2 lumens per led. But if you run them at 1% duty cycle, you only get 27 lumens over the length ( 15m*120led/m*1.5lum/led*0.01duty), which is about a night light's worth. Without long leads, a 1/255 duty cycle is very do-able, yielding a floor of around 10 lumens. That said, OP would need a high-voltage high-frequency LED driver for his strips, which is not a typical piece of kit. At 50Hz, a triac dimmer will only let you do 2% min, but that's still a just "bright" night light at 54 lumens... | |
| Oct 8, 2022 at 12:20 | comment | added | wfgeo | I bought a cheap dimmer socket adapter to test if the strip could be dimmed. It worked. I decided to just take the risk and buy an LED wall dimmer switch, install it, and then I just cut off the plug cord right before the plug and connected it to the wires in the ceiling. It works totally fine. | |
| Oct 3, 2022 at 13:03 | history | answered | FreeMan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |