>>9630457>electrician install lights for meLED strip lighting kits are dead simple to do yourself, though guides and the market for them make it look a lot more complicated than it is. it's just electrical continuity through positive and negative terminals with a bunch of diodes in the middle. involves little soldering. the rest of it is tape & twist tying cables down to be invisible. i found all this out after i bought expensive pre-fabbed lighting kits and regret how much i spent versus just cutting the materials myself. it would have taken longer but i could have saved a lot of money.
do yourself a favor and skip on the gimmicky RGB and dimming kits and just choose a static, pure natural white, and consider diffusion panels. i have the meme cabinets (ikea detolfs) with the meme lighting (luke lights.) got the natural lighting with diffusion panels and they really make colors look great. what diffusion panels really do is hide the individual LEDs as much as possible when the light reflects off of surfaces. however the lighting kit is really overpriced for what it is. the mounting brackets are just something bought bulk out of a hardware store, cut with an angle grinder. dude doesn't even deburr them for you. you have to buy your own sticky tape. the LEDs are just cheap made in china lighting strips he custom measures to fit the detolf cabinet.
you also have to consider the mounting angle for the brackets you decide to use. if you mount light facing straight down, faces of figures will have shadows. if you rear-mount the lights, the majority of the light will be lighting the backs of the figures, which voids the point. mine are 45 degree angle. i just pushed my figs deeper back into the shelf to light up their faces.
used to have my figures sitting in a cheap bookshelf. with custom lighting they're now a pleasure to look at. the results are definitely something planning and giving great consideration towards before executing.
