Led Strip lights in kitchen - how to join and prewire

[djt100]

Hi, Can anyone offer any advice on what I need to preprepare prior to the kitchen going in.

An empty room at the moment, I've channelled out for the new plugs, but before the work started I want to make sure I'm all set for the pre-wiring of the lights.

So what I want to do it put in LED strip lights as the Red shows on the Basic plan below, these will operate from a normal Lightswitch. We would Like to go for the RGB Led Strips with either Remote Control or Wifi Operation. Seems to be plenty of options about for all of this. Where I am looking for information is how to join all the strips together. as you see from the plan its approx 5 metres of the strip but needs cutting to size and fitting around bends but also need wiring to connect the 3 separate sections together? Any advice on how to do this reliably?

Effectively I'm going to have SWITCH > Transformer > ControlBox > STRIP 1 >join?? > STRIP2 > join?? > STRIP 3 > END

[djt100]

B17NNS said:

Remote's are soooo last season. What about some Hue and control it with Alexa/Google assistant?

Hence to Wifi option, as this then enables Alexa support on a lot of units

Edited by djt100 on Monday 23 October 16:49

[djt100]

gmaz said:

We joined the strips by running a cable inside a half - D shaped conduit and then running that along the top of the line of tiles behind the extractor. You may not be able to do that by the window though.

Empty room so I can channel in a conduit and run the cables through, so that's not a problem.... I think that's the easy bit!