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Well made a bit of progress on the shop.

I obtained a free cabinet which I hung today. Kind of a chore to hang a 9 foot cabinet with only yourself, but it's up.

I decided to space the top up and put some holes in it so to store some pieces up there. It might have been better in concept than in actual outcome.



This idea I am very happy with though. A place to hang my sanding belts keeping the different grits organized. I took and put a 3/4 inch hole at a angle in the lumber and then press fit in some short pieces of aluminum pipe which I had left over from another project.



In fact I liked it so much, I made one for under the cabinet to store tools from. I have a bunch more of these pieces of aluminum pipe left, so more hangers will be built.



I also brought in all of the power tools to start laying out the electrical.

Since it is for my shop redo, I'll continue on this thread. Some may find it interesting though.

I made a LED light strip 6 feet long to go under my cabinet. Since the cabinet will cause a shadow once I have lights in place (currently still shop lights)

Anyhow, for 6 feet, it is rated at 3 amps, which my power supply used in these pictures is rated at 2 amps, so I think it will brighten up some when my larger power supply comes in. I purchased a few 5 amp supplys last night. 2 amp is sufficient for many uses, and a 2 amp is half the price of a 3 amp. Go figure..

Some info that I found listed each LED as 30 lumens. (amount of light) In 6 feet, we have 100 LED's for 3000 Lumens.

A 4 foot T8 florescent is about 2500-2800 lumens.

So my 6 foot strip should be slightly brighter than a 4 foot florescent.

We shall see, but currently I only have 2 amps going to it and it seems a bit dull.

Here are some pics. Keep in mind, I have no lighting back there yet. So there is a lot of shadows from work lights.

End view. Notice I cut it at about a 45% angle to aim the light down and out towards me. The right side is the top. I did this cut with the Shopsmith router tilting the bed. A dado blade might have done a nicer job? Never used one, and a router was quick to set up. No one is EVER going to see this light close up! Just used a cheap 1 x 3 furring strip.





Strip in place. The strip comes with a self adhesive back. However, I took some clear seam sealer and ran a thin bead on each edge after this pic.




Added a clear acrylic shield and did a test. It works!



View from under bench.







So, for about $20.00 I made a custom 6 foot light fixture.

ddub wrote:Since it is for my shop redo, I'll continue on this thread. Some may find it interesting though.

I made a LED light strip 6 feet long to go under my cabinet. Since the cabinet will cause a shadow once I have lights in place (currently still shop lights)

Anyhow, for 6 feet, it is rated at 3 amps, which my power supply used in these pictures is rated at 2 amps, so I think it will brighten up some when my larger power supply comes in. I purchased a few 5 amp supplys last night. 2 amp is sufficient for many uses, and a 2 amp is half the price of a 3 amp. Go figure..

Some info that I found listed each LED as 30 lumens. (amount of light) In 6 feet, we have 100 LED's for 3000 Lumens.

A 4 foot T8 florescent is about 2500-2800 lumens.

So my 6 foot strip should be slightly brighter than a 4 foot florescent.

We shall see, but currently I only have 2 amps going to it and it seems a bit dull.

Here are some pics. Keep in mind, I have no lighting back there yet. So there is a lot of shadows from work lights.

End view. Notice I cut it at about a 45% angle to aim the light down and out towards me. The right side is the top. I did this cut with the Shopsmith router tilting the bed. A dado blade might have done a nicer job? Never used one, and a router was quick to set up. No one is EVER going to see this light close up! Just used a cheap 1 x 3 furring strip.





Strip in place. The strip comes with a self adhesive back. However, I took some clear seam sealer and ran a thin bead on each edge after this pic.




Added a clear acrylic shield and did a test. It works!



View from under bench.







So, for about $20.00 I made a custom 6 foot light fixture.

Where did you get the led strips? Do you have to match polarity?

Ed,
This is the exact strip that I used. Yes polarity must be retained.

http://www.amazon.com/SUPERNIGHT-Waterp ... B00HJLCZ9M

I have similar LED's in red, blue, yellow and R/B/G LED's which require a controller. Those can change colors. The RBG lights are 4 terminal, where as the single color are 2 terminal. Simple positive and negative.

The light looks quite blue, is that the camera or is really that blue?

Ed