Month: August 2024

How To Add Lighting In Your Tile Niche?

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Bathroom niche lighting can add functionality and aesthetic appeal to your bathroom space. Niche lighting brings light to areas that can not mount traditional lamps, such as stone walls, stone lanterns, or bathroom niches. Some customers send us emails to ask how to add lighting to the niche in their bathroom. Today, let’s check how to do it.

Bathroom Niche Lighting

To add lighting to your bathroom niche, we need to consider the factors of waterproofing and tiling. This means you need the lighting to be waterproof. The walls are mounted tiles or marble, so we can not drill holes. So we recommend using our tile aluminum channels, which you can recess into the tiles easily. About the light source, you can add high-density dotless COB strip lights as the light source. The LED channels can hold the strip lights properly and protect them from moisture, dust, and damage. It can also be used as a heat sinker for better heat dissipation of LED lights.

What do you need?

  1. Tile Aluminum LED Channels
  2. Waterproof COB LED Strips
  3. LED Power Supply
  4. Light Dimmer(Not necessary)
  5. Wires
  6. Silicone Glue
  7. Screwdriver

Determine the purpose: Before you install the lighting, decide if it is for accent purposes, task lighting, or both.

Choose the type of lighting: LED strip, puck, or recessed lights are popular choices. We will recommend strip lights, because of their energy efficiency and low heat output. Please ensure the width of the strip lights that the aluminum LED channels can hold. If the width of the PCB board is 8mm and the waterproof version is 10mm. So you must ensure the light channel can hold 10mm strip lights.

Select the colors: there are many colors of strip lights available: single color, dual white, RGB, RGBW, RGBWW, RGBIC, RGBWIC, RGBCCTIC, etc.

How do you install them in your bathroom?

  1. Painting cement mortar.
  2. Insert the end caps, then put the profile.
  3. Stick the tile.
  4. Mount the waterproof LED Strips and press in the diffuser, then lead out the power cable.
  5. Seal the wire holes on the end cap with silicone glue.
  6. Run the cable to the power source and connect the power.

Following the steps above, you could add lighting to the niche for your bathroom, which will give you a stylish and practical tile niche with added lighting that enhances the space. You also can add light dimmer or LED controller to control the strip light to adjust brightness or control color for various scenes.

How To Cut The LED Profiles To The Desired Size?

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The length of most LED profiles in stock is 2M; in some models, it is 2.5M or 3M, and the maximum length can be 6M. We can help you cut to any size you want for free. But when you want to do it by yourself, the question is, how do you do it yourself?

How to cut LED profiles to your desired size

First, we need to know what material the LED profiles on the market are made of to answer the question. Most LED Light Profiles are made of aluminum, but some are made of silicone or PVC. If they are made of silicone or PVC, you can easily cut them to any size with a knife. But for aluminum channels, it’s a little more complex.

Most aluminum LED channels come with aluminum channels and diffusers. Whether you cut by hand or a machine, it’s important to do it correctly to maintain the aesthetics and functionality. So, let’s check carefully how to do it.

how to cut LED channels

Step 1: Before cutting the LED profiles, carefully measure the length you need. You need to measure the length of the LED profiles and the diffusers. Please remember to leave space for end caps and wires. If the aluminum profiles and diffusers are separate, we recommend assembling them before cutting. We will recommend measuring again before cutting them to avoid any mistakes.

Step 2: Choose the correct tools. You can cut them by hand with a hacksaw with a fine-tooth cutting blade or a compound miter saw.

Step 3: Prepare tools before cutting them. Before you cut them, you need to prepare the necessary tools. If cutting by hand, you will need the items below:

  1. Hacksaw with a fine-tooth cutting blade
  2. pen
  3. measuring tape
  4. masking tape
  5. compound square for angled cuts

If cutting by a power machine, you will need the items below:

  1. Compound miter saw
  2. Masking tape
  3. Pen
  4. Measuring tape
  5. Non-ferrous Carbide Blade For Aluminum Profiles
  6. OBS/Plywood Blade For Diffusers
How to cut LED profiles

How to cut by hand?

  1. Stick the masking tape to the place that you want to cut. It will prevent scratches.
  2. Mark the cutting dimension on the tape.
  3. For the large-size LED Channels, we recommend cutting the aluminum channels and diffusers separately.
  4. Cut them slowly and steadily, ensuring your blade remains straight.
  5. Cut to the size you want.

How to cut by a machine?

  1. Assemble the LED profiles and diffusers for cutting. For the large ones, we will recommend cutting the profiles and diffusers separately.
  2. Mark the cutting point on the diffusers.
  3. Use the electronic tools to cut preciously.
  4. Use a miter saw with a non-ferrous carbide blade for precise and clean cuts.
  5. Remember to wear safety gear when operating the power tools.

By following these steps, you should be able to cut LED profiles to your desired size effectively and safely.

Voice Control Home Lighting

How To Control Your Home Lighting By Voice?

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Controlling your home lighting by voice is a convenient and efficient way to manage the ambiance of your living space. By integrating smart home devices such as voice-controlled assistants or intelligent light bulbs, and LED Controllers, you can easily adjust the brightness, color, and scheduling of your lights with simple voice commands. This hands-free approach adds a touch of modernity to your home and enhances your living environment’s overall convenience and comfort. So, say goodbye to traditional light switches and embrace the future of home lighting control with voice commands. Today, let’s check how to control your home lighting via voice.

  1. The first thing you must ensure is that you have voice control input devices; the most popular ones integrated with Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa.
Voice Control Input Devices

2. The second thing you must ensure is that the Smart LED Lights can connect to the voice control devices. Except the LED Lights with WiFi communication modules, otherwise you will need to the Gateways, 2.4G Gateways or Zigbee 3.0 Gateways.

3. The third thing is to add them to the various groups on your phone APP to control them separately or in groups.

Today, we will teach you how to do step-by-step operations to control the LED Strips by voice commands.

For the LED Strips, 3 main types of controllers are available that integrate 2.4G, Zigbee 3.0, or WiFi.

For the 2.4G LED Controllers, you will need the items below:

  1. LED Strips
  2. 2.4G RF LED Controller
  3. Power Supply
  4. 2.4G Gateway
  5. RF Remote Control(Not necessary)
  6. Wires

For the Zigbee 3.0 Controller, you will need the ones below:

  1. Strip Lights
  2. Zigbee 3.0 Controller
  3. LED Driver
  4. Zigbee Gateway
  5. Zigbee Remote Control(Not necessary)
  6. Wires
  7. Connectors

For the WiFi Controller, you will need the items below:

  1. LED Tapes
  2. WiFi LED Controller
  3. LED Power Supply
  4. Remote Control(Not necessary)
  5. Wires
  6. Connectors

There are various types of Strip Lights available; you can consider single-color, tunable white, RGB, RGBW, RGB+CCT, Addressable single color, addressable CCT, RGBIC, addressable RGBW, and addressable RGB+CCT. You can use them for various scenes. The IP20 or IP30 non-waterproof strip lights for indoor use only, and you can consider the IP65, IP67, and IP68 ones for outdoor locations.

How to install them in your space?

  1. Hide the Flexible LED Strips: you can use the IP30 non-waterproof and IP65 surface-coated waterproof LED Strips for indoor applications. The back with double-sided adhesive tape. It’s easy to remove the protector paper and stick it where you want to install them. I recommend adding aluminum LED channels to hold strip lights to achieve a clean and professional look while protecting the strips. The LED Profiles also can work as heat sinkers for better heat dissipation.
  2. Connect to the controller: choose the correct LED Controller for the LED Strips. If the controller can not be paired to the network directly, please add Gateway.
  3. Connect the controller to the LED Power Supply. Various output voltage LED Drivers are available. Before you purchase them, please ensure the output voltage is the same as the working voltage of LED Light Strips. For some short applications, you can also consider using a battery pack or power bank to light up.
  4. After the system is powered on, please test if all parts work well.
  5. Test if you can use voice commands to control the LED Lights.

By these following steps, you can easily control your home lighting using voice commands, adding convenience and flexibility to your living space.