Hi there I'm looking for advice on what best quality brands of reliable led strip lighting for kitchen cabinets with sticky back plus drivers & connectors. Look forward to hearing your replies because my experience of this led product hasn't been great but in this case I have to come up with something decent. Thanks again.
Maybe I just got lucky but I've had some cheap Chinese tape off ebay happily running in my kitchen and a friend's for about 4 years now. It's stuck to a strip of 2" wide aluminium tape as reflector and (rubbish) heatsink. One of the two just has a 12 V power supply, the other is a fairly long length so is driven from opposite ends with a constant-current supply so as to take out all the voltage drop along the strip and stop you having a dim end and a bright end. It's is a "high power" one being under-run for efficiency and long life, I think it's using about 2 A over 4 metres.
We install the self contained fittings (available in 500mm and 300mm) by Channel Safety Systems. Never had a callback to one that wasn't installer error (i broke the solder connections to one by tugging on the cord while it was plugged into the unit). All SELV and drivers are very thin (about 25mm) and unobtrusive. Can be powered from either end and daisy chained of course.
One of the major selling points for us on it is the availability of accessories such as push switches and PIR's that simply plug in line.
I've used the ones from TLC and never had a failure yet in 5 years. The only problem is they have small clips with little screws to fix them under the cabinets and the transformers go on top of the cupboards. Fitted in two of my kitchens and customers airing cupboard - available either as flat or angled and can just plug together or loop round corners.
