We light the ceiling with an LED strip

To carry out lighting of a ceiling by a light-emitting diode tape by own hands means to follow rough development of technologies of illumination.

Such a decoration of the area above the head visually adjusts the size of the room. You can decorate the rooms yourself and right now, just by updating the lighting.

To make the lighting, take the LED devices of 4 varieties.

For any choice and taste, there are line-type lamps, ceiling lamps, spotlight-type LED emitters and ribbons equipped with controllers.

Special LED ribbons, which are demonstrated in the photo, are used to create color special effects in the interior.

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Considering the nuances of connecting a tape with LEDs

How in the general interior of the house will look like a ceiling with an LED ribbon, think in advance.

The best way to connect ribbons and mount them to the ceiling should be considered.

If the room area of ​​17 square meters.meters and less, then to organize the lighting of the ceiling is easy with their own hands.

First you need to determine the places where there is not enough light to place the tape from the LEDs. Determining this, decide which model is better to choose.

Next, look how long the LED strip is needed. Be sure to take into account the fact that it can be cut to 5 cm

After that, select the power supply suitable for the parameters of the tape, and the controller to control its operation. Their choice is of great importance.

Calculate the parameters of lighting chains and understand the connection is also quite easy. To do this, it is enough to carefully read the instructions attached to the purchased product.

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What you need to do when deciding to build LED lighting, tell in the video presented in the section.

And then you can start fixing the tape to the ceiling with your own hands.

How to install LED ribbon by yourself?

The first step, which must be done, is to lead to the installation area of ​​the LEDs the power supply cables. The LED strip should be connected to a separate switch.

If the lighting installation involves attaching a ribbon with diodes of different colors, which is sold together with the control unit, then it is not necessary to make a special switch.

This backlight can be controlled remotely by pressing the remote control buttons.

Now it's an hour to install the heaviest hardware elements, that is, the power supply and control unit. They are sealed in plastic frames and have special grooves for fastening.

They need to be built with their own hands using dowels and only in those places where they will be invisible.

There are wizards who prefer to attach the unit to glue, rather than to self-tapping screws.

But it's better to give up this method of installation altogether, because if at some point you need to change this device, then it will have to be torn together with the finishing of the room.

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It's time to install the LED strip itself. Its base is almost always self-adhesive, protected by a millimeter-thick paper layer.

It is not necessary to remove the outer shell at once, wait with it.

Initially, the zone to which the strip of LEDs is to be glued should be wiped off with dirt and grease.

Then it is necessary to wait for the drying of the plane, since on a damp place the LED tape for lighting the ceilings may not adhere well.

Starting the gluing process, remove the protective layer only from half a meter of tape. This piece is glued to the ceiling.

In the same way we proceed further, gradually detaching the upper shell of the tape.

When you reach the edge of the ceiling, do not rush to cut off an extra piece of tape. Do not forget that any LED strip under the suspended ceiling is divided into sections with 3-5 LEDs.

If you cut a strip in the middle of a section where a certain number of diodes are connected, you will ruin all the work done. The remaining diodes on the tape will fail.

Therefore, making your own installation, remember that the cut must be done in a place designated perpendicular.

When the scissors are already laid aside, along the entire length of the tape it is worth to walk with the palm, tightly pressing the tape to the plane.

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It's time to move on to a direct connection. If the LED ribbon on the ceiling is new, that is, a solid one, never used before, then it will be easy to connect the lighting.

The device designer thought about how it is easier to connect devices to each other. The plugs are inserted into the jacks on which everything is indicated.

It takes a little longer to connect the power supply. You can go in two ways. Alternatively, you can build an outlet. Truth it will be too cumbersome.

And you can do differently and elementary cut off the power supply plug, and bare wires to weld together with twists.

If the choice fell on the second sentence, it is better to disentangle the combined wires. This will ensure reliability and safety.

It is necessary to consider ways of solving such a problem as the absence of connectors. Here you have to learn how to use a soldering tool.

At the end of all fragments of the LED strip there is a section for connecting the wires. They are marked with plus and minus signs.

Swapping them during wiring to the power supply is a big and serious oversight. The inattentive approach to this is fraught with the fact that the LEDs do not light up or even worse - they will break.

In order for the LED strip to illuminate the ceilings to work, you need to purchase the necessary connectors in the store and solder them to the strip of diodes.

The red wire corresponds to the plus, and the other to the minus. Then you need to act as described above.

Installation, performed carelessly and improperly, can cause unpleasant situations. Under no pretense, you do not need to remove the power supply and the control module far into the depth of the ceiling.

The equipment can simply burn, and it is impossible to pull it out without damaging the ceiling design.

This video will help you learn how to do the installation yourself, so that the LED strip under the suspended ceiling has been installed by all the rules.

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Choosing and installing a ceiling with a backlight

A huge range of materials and the development of the latest technologies have determined that the ceiling with LED tape can be mounted as just as desired by your imagination.

Therefore, in the interior of the house you can realize the most daring ideas.

In addition, modern materials are easy to use, so you can even build a ceiling with lighting with your hands and thus experiment in the interior.

It is necessary to tell about the most widespread variants on which it will be possible to be guided, making a choice of a design of a tension ceiling.

A popular variant in the interior of the room - a ceiling made of plasterboard in two levels with illumination. With this type of false ceiling, installation of a plasterboard box in two floors is required.

Inside the frame, as a rule, a suspended ceiling is mounted. The design, supplemented by lighting, gives a stunning result.

The most successful height of the structure of gypsum board is 20 cm, width - 0.5 m, more - very rarely.

The first floor of the plasterboard box is mounted using a metal profile, having receded from the ceiling about 10 cm. The next floor is mounted as a niche with a ledge, placing it under the light source.

If the matte ceiling is illuminated, an open niche is created that protrudes beyond the edges of the first tier of the gypsum board box.

But, when the surface of the ceiling is reflective, a niche is fixed from inside the box. That is, the edge of the open niche is moved to the center of the room for a few cm.

And if the design is closed, then the side of the niche is mounted parallel to the first tier.

When the self-assembly passes to this stage, it is necessary to connect wires to the LED strip for the construction of gypsum board.

How this tape will be pasted is also very important. When it is mounted in an open niche, directing the diodes to the ceiling, an effect of even light, flowing along the ceiling of the ceiling, will be created.

And if the LEDs will look deeper into the niche, the light will become softer and more diffuse.

No less famous option in the interior - an opaque stretch ceiling with lighting. With this design, the strip with LEDs is installed with a ceiling skirting board.

It is fastened to the wall at a distance of 2 to 10 cm below the ceiling. The installation must be carried out firmly, so that the structure does not feel the weight of the power supply and lighting.

The LED strip is glued to the plane or into the hole provided for this purpose. The light effect will also depend on how the diodes are positioned relative to the ceiling.

In the modern interior is no less popular and transparent stretch ceiling-panel. It is illuminated from within the structure. You can also take a translucent stretch material.

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If it's with photo printing, then you can imitate landscapes with light.

The ceiling can be built on the basis of plasterboard, and you can do without this material.

The strip with diodes is mounted by hand at the last stage of the skeleton structure of the ceiling, but before the web is stretched.

To properly understand the construction of the ceiling with illumination with your own hands, look at the video lesson above.