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New York sues Zelle, says security lapses led to $1 billion consumer fraud losses : news
Main Post: New York sues Zelle, says security lapses led to $1 billion consumer fraud losses : news
QuinLED Custom designed LED strip
Main Post: QuinLED Custom designed LED strip
Top Comment: I custom designed my own LED strip! As always I will be here for question! :D Written documentation can be found here: https://quinled.info/quinled-dig-cob-rgbw-896-160/
What’s an “adult version” of RGB strip lights?
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I love RGB strip lights but they are seen as childish. Thoughts on “mature” replacements which have a similar affect?
Top Comment: Floor, ceiling and table lamps that can be dimmed appropriately and are at the right temperature color for the room.
What's the current scientific consensus on harmful effects of LED lighting?
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I was Googling around for which is Least harmful for use in close proximity to the body (eg study lamp), but there seem to be many conflicting views on the topic.
I'm not really concerned about energy savings, so let's discuss about the studies which claim that " LED blue light" is harmful and compare that with the " CFL UV rays are harmful"
Also I'm asking about close range exposure.
Some links : LED
CFL
Top Comment: There is no scientific support for LED's or CFL's causing any noticeable damage. This type of media scare gives people something to worry about in their home that is totally harmless. Let me explain why. LED's emit visible wavelengths of light. The only wavelengths that begin to cause damage are wavelengths in the UV band and smaller. They also have to be delivered in high levels to cause any damage. CFL's do emit UV light, but it is at levels hundreds of times less harmful than you get than just by going outside... Supposed "damage" from LED's is from extremely long exposure to the eyes. I am talking about staring at an LED's for hours on end for months... CFL "damage" is from exposing your skin to a very powerful CFL for equally ridiculous amounts of time. If you want something infinitely more dangerous go drive your car to work...
What are your favorite RGB light strips?
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Spent the last 6 or 7 months getting lots of my current devices set up in Home Assistant. For lighting, that’s pretty much just Hue and Deako. I like Hue and the Hue app looking to see what else is out there. I’ve got both Zigbee and Zwave set up, and I guess now the new Matter integration but I haven’t played with lights for any of these.
I don’t have any specific use cases right now other than they would be used indoors, but would love to hear about your favorite light strips that you use with HA!
EDIT: holy crap! what incredible responses and suggestions. Thanks for all this. Got some Govee lights on a Black Friday special while looking into WLED. Thanks all.
Top Comment: DIY running WLED. Got some strung up behind a pegboard in my office, which looks really good , and some pucks mounted along my roofline, which looks amazing WLED being 100% opensource (software AND hardware) has a pretty great dashboard, and an excellent HomeAssistant integration
Whole room lighting
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Hi all,
I'm looking for someone to point me in the correct brand / model number LED strip lights to use in a large kitchen area, this will be the main light.
The area is 8x3meters and I'll use plaster in profile in the ceiling space.
I'd also like warm white, I'd like the option for RGB but if that compromises the light output then I'll stick to just warm white LED only.
Thanks!
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If this is going to be your main light, get high quality white light (High CRI) Analog LED strip. Digital strip there are no suitable strips available (mainstream) except maybe the newest RGBW COB 768LEDs/m that's out since recently but even that only has a fair CRI of 90 (self measured), nowhere near CRI95 which you'd really want in a kitchen, in my opinion.
Second is light amount, digital LED strips, especially the dedicated white LED diodes won't get very bright (also not on that RGBW COB 768LEDs/m strip I mentioned above) or at least nowhere near as bright as high quality Analog LED strip. Analog strip you can get for instance in 28.8w per meter while the brightest digital strip is more like 7w per meter.
Please don't use SK6812, WS2814 or TM1814 (all digital RGBW ICs), none of those will have a CRI above even 70 and anything color critical such as fresh food or especially meat (lots of reds) will really look horrible to your eyes.
For the best type of strip I know of and I use all through out the house and in my studio for all my filming it's this Auxmer 24v 28.8w CRI95 120LEDs/m Analog strip. You will need a profile to attach it into or at least something metal to sink away some of the heat to make sure they function for a long time. Plastering profiles into the ceiling should work fine.
You'll also need some Analog or rather PWM dimmer to control them. I'm working on those personally that will be released for purchase but currently only have DIY models you build yourself. A stop gap solution could be my new dig2analog boards which takes in a digital signal and then outputs an Analog/PWM signal! Of course there are also other Analog dimmers out there but none that I know of that will run WLED.
Hope it helps!