Re: Building our Hot Toys display, drywall buildout
Ok I have all of the LED stuff, now all we have to do is get everything installed and finished.
Here is a photo of all of the shelves with one roll of LED lights just loosely set in place. The lights on the top shelf will be along the bottom as shown, and the lights for all of the other shelves will be at the top, as shown on the 2nd shelf down. I prefer them to be up top so as to light the faces more, but don't want to give up space to build some sort of header along the ceiling. So the top figures will be lit from below. This photo is with the lights at full brightness.
This is a closer shot of the same thing, showing only the shelves that are lit, again at full brightness. I tried to make the photos show about what I am actually seeing. I don't think that I'll really need to dim the lights much, but wanted to have the option to dim them.
So the 12VDC, 96 watt power supply that I bought basically looks like a laptop power supply.....cord, power converter, cord. The plug that comes out of the supply is a 5.5mm male plug. It goes into a 10mm female plug and the other end (white connector) connects to the first end of the first LED light strip.
Since there is a 45 degree angle in the corner of each shelf, and you cant bend the LED strips laterally, I'm going to cut the strips so that there are three individual strips per shelf (one along each side and a short one in the corner). You can connect strips using this connector. These are pre-made, you can also just buy the plugs and make your own. They are "solderless connectors" so very easy to use.
This is the remote dimmer that I bought. There are different ones, but this was does the job and was less than $10. The receiver in the back plugs in with the lights, and the remote is obviously in front. I haven't wired this in and played with it just yet.
