How to make LED lighting in the house and apartment?

LED lighting electrical appeared on the market recently.During this short period of time the LEDs quickly became bestsellers, replacing classical bulbs Illich, as well as halogen and fluorescent light sources.

Merits following products:

• high energy-saving features (you can say that the highest among all existing light sources);
• not contaminate the environment (unlike mercury lamps);
• service life can be up to 15 years (one of the most important benefits);
• high luminous efficacy;
• simple installation and maintenance of lighting systems;
• have minimal heat (unlike incandescent bulbs that most of the electricity is converted into heat, rather than light);
• body has high strength;
• can be used in places with high humidity and dust.

As for shortcomings, he is one - too high a price.Personally, our opinion is inclined to the fact that this defect is not convincing.This is due to the fact that the lamp quickly pays for itself because of the high energy-saving properties.Summed up, and after weighing all the "pros and cons", can be said that the advantages of LED lighting for apartments and houses are much greater than the disadvantages.

Where should I use?

To date, the installation of LED lighting can be used anywhere: at home, apartment, landscaping, car decoration and even in industrial environments.As for the interior, lighting LEDs is best to install in the living room, in the hall, in the bedroom and in the kitchen.

Living Room (actually, as the hall) is a place of acceptance of friends, as well as the room where you can sit and watch TV.Typically, a living room interior includes different "flavor" - a niche in the wall cabinets with accessories etc.That can be nice to them and illuminate LED tape.

In the kitchen, in fact, as in the bedroom, very often used a hidden ceiling lights.To install it, you must make a curtain rod, then put into the same LED tape.

As for the corridor and the bathroom, then there must be installed spotlights.The tape in this case is not very advisable to use.

Bases for

Before making LED lighting in the apartment or house, you must make the appropriate calculations to find out the amount and type of material required.When replacing lamps (for example, you decide to replace halogen lamps LEDs) completely change the wiring does not make sense.Typically, the replacement of produce if the new equipment will be more powerful than the old, and in this case, the diodes will consume even less energy.That's good, because there is no need to carry out the calculation of the cable cross-section, as well as acquire new wiring elements.All you need - to calculate the capacity of the tape, which will be enough for the room, or the right to choose the number of spotlights.

draw your attention to the fact that today there are a lot of free software for the calculation of LED lighting in the apartment and a country house.They include a set of criteria for the calculation of the required luminous flux: room area, material and color of the walls, the size and location of windows, etc.

If you want to manually carry out the calculation, then offer to your attention two stages that make up the event.

Step 1 - Choosing a suitable power supply unit for the tape

For LED Tape required power supply unit (PSU), through which will pass current from the network.

to choose the right power supply for the installation of LED lighting in the apartment, you first need to calculate the power consumption of the tape.Each product has its own characteristics: operating voltage, length, power consumption 1 meter length.We need to know the total capacity of the n-th product length.

For example, you bought a 7-meter ribbon capacity of 7.2 W / m.Typically, it is sold in cartridges by 5 meters.Total we must have 2 pieces of 5 meters, one of which will need to be shortened.

Please note that the LED strips can be cut to the desired length, but this must be done in special places.In most cases, the manufacturer provides a place to cut every 3 LEDs.

Total, total capacity of products will be:

Ptot = P * L = 7 * 7.2 = 50, 4 Watts.

necessary to provide power supply (at least 20%) for the normal functioning of the power supply.Total: 50.4 * 1.2 = 60.5 watts.In the store you need to buy, do not block the power supply is less than that calculated.

Step 2 - We expect the number of fixtures

If you choose to use the apartment classic spotlights, it is also necessary to make the design work.To do this, you need to know only the power of the lamp, which is always indicated on the package.

formula for calculating will take the form of:

Where: Rood - specific power of the lamp (for premises with LED lighting is about 2.5 W per 1 square meter);

S - area of ​​the room;

Kc - coefficient of demand, in this case 1.

Total, if you decide to carry out the calculation of LED lighting for the bathroom, it must be 2.5 * 6 (approximate the bathroom) and 1, which will result in 15 Watts.Next you need to determine the number of luminaires.Here everything is to your taste: buy 3 to 5 W, or 1 to 15 watts.

Create

scheme Here everything is simple.The number of required lamps have already calculated.Now you need to choose the place of their installation.It is recommended to use a photocopy of the floor plan, which lists all the exact sizes of rooms, windows and doors installation site.

To your attention an example of the lighting scheme in the apartment:

After creating the schema, you need to buy all the items and move electrical wiring for installation.

Installation Installing LED lighting in the apartment and the house is not a big deal.The manufacturer provided such a product design that allows you to quickly and easily install the lamps with their own hands.

Tape Fastening

One side is self-adhesive LED tape.All you need to create a hidden eaves lighting, and place the tape pasted on the prepared surface.

Cornice for LED lighting can be made of gypsum board, and can be purchased ready-made - polyurethane.

It should be noted that the power supply inside the eaves is better not to put, becauseit is heated and can cause danger.If the LED strip is short and low power, the PSU can not hesitate to put into the box.

also advise view vivid video tutorial for installation:

Connecting fixtures

Spotlights are rather simple and convenient design, which is represented by a round body with arching legs.

order to make LED lighting in the apartment, you must cut in the plasterboard ceiling (or wall) round hole, get directions to it and wiring hidden way to connect with the luminaire.We recommend using the way of wiring - WAGO Terminal Blocks.They are inexpensive and safe to fasten the wires even of different sections and material living.

After connecting the wires to each other, you can install the product in the seat.For this purpose, hand foot and are pressed accurately placed in the casing so called Stroebe.In the end, it is necessary to carry out connection of a light switch.This should be done only when the power is off!

Photo examples

We offer to your attention the photo idea LED lighting homes and apartments:

hopethat these examples will inspire you to something to make LED lighting with their own hands.
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