Smart recessed CCT Cabinet Lights

[Spinny]

Anyone seen any thin lights for recessing into the bottom of kitchen wall cabinets that are actually smart and can be controlled remotely to change colour temperature as well as to dim ?

[Russell griffiths]

Forgive me if I’m being thick. 
but the colour changing and temperature changes are down to the led and driver unit. 
thin profile is down to the aluminium profile that you recessed into the cupboard, as long as the strip fits in the profile then off you go. 
just get a profile thinner than your bottom of your cupboard. 

[Spinny]

Ah ok, I meant slim circular downlight puck lights that get recessed into the cabinet base. About 12-15mm deep.

 

Want circular to match the extractor etc Kitchen company have some but they are not smart.

Edited Tuesday at 19:33 by Spinny

[joth]

My experience is kitchen cabinet supplied light fittings are massively marked up rubbish.

One project the customer paid hundreds per cabinet for them just to rip them out and replace with some quality Dali fittings (which also added CTT support). The pre fitted stuff was 12V non-dimmable inconsistent temperature, and random switch on latency. Essentially the cost just went into having the kitchen company route out channels and provide some glass bases for the cabinets.

 

Can't really help with the OP other than say most slimline panel fittings are just an LED strip and a diffuser internally, so like the case i mentioned above you may get some mileage finding a quality fitting and pairing it to an appropriate constant current LED driver of your choice. 

[-rick-]

26 minutes ago, joth said:

My experience is kitchen cabinet supplied light fittings are massively marked up rubbish.

One project the customer paid hundreds per cabinet for them just to rip them out and replace with some quality Dali fittings (which also added CTT support). The pre fitted stuff was 12V non-dimmable inconsistent temperature, and random switch on latency. Essentially the cost just went into having the kitchen company route out channels and provide some glass bases for the cabinets.

 

Got an example of these DALI fittings and what they cost?

[joth]

1 hour ago, -rick- said:

 

Got an example of these DALI fittings and what they cost?

That one was LED strip and appropriate driver. IIRC it was from DLD with an LTech driver 

https://www.darklightdesign.com/architectural-lighting/led-tape/112654/

https://www.ultraleds.co.uk/ltech-professional-24v-dali-constant-voltage-led-driver-36w-ip20

[-rick-]

Thanks. I guess I was thinking you were referring to circular/bulb style ones. bulb style with controllable CCT seems pretty difficult to find outside the wireless 'smart' bulbs which I don't think is a good solution.

[Tetrarch]

When I did my refurb I wanted CCT Led light strips under the kitchen unit run, in each of the three rooflights and also I have two (PIR controlled) inset LED strips in each of the bathroom niches 

 

I had different profiles for each of the locations but went for KSR LED CCT strips in each. I had seen them in an electrical supplier and they were very smooth in brightness and colour control. I had them custom-made for length to avoid any unnecessary joins and, of course, ultimately bought six drivers for control

 

The rooflights and under-cabinet are synched such that they are controlled from the same switch

 

Strip:  https://gosparky.co.uk/product/ksr-ksr95184-led-strip-light-navara-14w-2700k-6000k-cct-ip20-cob-w-1m-lead-5m/

 

Control: https://gosparky.co.uk/product-category/lighting-controls/control-gear/control-panels/   (note: there isn't a dedicated CCT controlled so I went for the generic RGB one)

They've been in well over a year and I'm really happy with them.

 

In my personal opinion, the only way to avoid light pooling is to use an LED strip. I had my kitchen units routed out with a single channel before hanging. The channel and strip was then inserted post

 

Regards

 

Tet

[joth]

If you buy one of these (first random example I found, not a specific recommendation), I'd wager the driver can be swapped out for a dimmable/CTT/smart one your choice. It comes with a 300mA CC driver and inline switch to select temperature:  my expectation is cut the switch off, and there's three cores coming out the back of it that feeds two LED strips internally to the fitting, for warm and cool white.