>>7050206Depends on your display case. Most have a solid top where you can put transformers, dimmers, etc. That's the easy part.
If you mount the LED strips vertically along the sides of your display case, you can usually drill a hole in the top frame or wooden panel to get access to your dimmer. This is the cleanest solution imo. If you mount multiple strips, you drill individual holes and connect them together at the top.
Anyway, as for the type of LED strips. Here's how I chose my LED strips and dimmer:
Then the question is what type of LED strips you want and how you want to mount the LED strips inside your display. You can pick up a lot of off the shelve solutions, but they will never be 100% suitable for your case. Though I'm guessing there's some plug and play systems available for popular cabinets such as the Ikea Detolf.
Personally, I just got one of those Mi-Light CCT (color temperature) dimmers and a remote. You can pick them up on amazon or aliexpress. They work on 12V or 24V and allow you to basically mix a cold and warm output to get the desired color temperature. The system works on 2.4GHz, same as most Wi-Fi networks. You'll need a suitable power supply that has the correct output voltage and power for your led strips.
Then you choose a led strip. There's a lot to choose from, but basically you pay for luminous intensity (how bright it is) and the density of the LEDs. More LEDs per meter equals a more continuous light source. Fewer LEDs per meter and you have the risk of seeing bright spots which looks like crap imo.
Finally you have to decide how to mount the LED strips inside the cabinet. Most LED strips have an adhesive backing, so you could just mount them like that. I paid a lot of money for my display case, so I chose to put them in an aluminium profile. The profile has a plastic diffuser which makes the light a lot more, well, diffuse. Obviously the profiles will have to be cut to size and mounted with some type of glue.
