I've made two downlights for the smaller middle blinds, and a striplight for the middle overhead light, leaving me two more overhead lights, and the two larger side windows still to make. Confused ? Don't worry all will be clear when they are fitted :P.
They arent hard to make, and each one costs around £1 to make. On ebay, Hong Kong sellers are selling 20 prewired LED lights for around £2-3 delivered. Screwfix sell the 16mm x 16mm electrical trunking that I use, for around £1.80 for a 2 meter length. The cable I'm using is heavy duty speaker wire, and I had a roll of double sided sticky foam strip in the cupboard.
I just measured a length of the trunking in relation to the intended job, the middle blinds, for example, needed a 24" length, then decided 3 LEDs would be sufficient to downlight. Needing the three lights to be centralised, I needed them spaced apart equally too, so had to divide 24 by 4, telling me that the lights had to be 6" apart starting 6" from either end. This places the LEDs centrally, leaving their light spread covering the width of the blind.
If that confused you even more, when you see them fitted, all will make sense, but for now this should show you what the hell these strips are anyhow lol.
Its the weekend ! More updates coming very soon :).
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