The lights look brighter in the picture than they do in person.

I have a question for you. I have these micro mini LEDs. I was going to use them on my kitchen light fixture (3) and as under cabinets lights too.

imwas just researching and came upon this tutorial that said if you wire LEDs to a transformer it will burn out quickly. What kind are you using md how are you electrifying the,? 

This whole,lighting situation is driving me crazy. I think I have to make another light fixture and use the regular round bulbs. Not too happy about that

BTW, the lights and cabinets look fab

That looks great! On some LEDs I just bought, it said you could dim them down with paint. Acrylics are supposed to dim them more than oils. You can use colors to shade them. I haven't tried them yet, but I know I will have to dim mine!

12 hours ago, MLI Designs said:

I have a question for you. I have these micro mini LEDs. I was going to use them on my kitchen light fixture (3) and as under cabinets lights too.

imwas just researching and came upon this tutorial that said if you wire LEDs to a transformer it will burn out quickly. What kind are you using md how are you electrifying the,? 

This whole,lighting situation is driving me crazy. I think I have to make another light fixture and use the regular round bulbs. Not too happy about that

BTW, the lights and cabinets look fab

I bought these LEDs from Tim Kraft at the Chicago show after the soldering class, he actually taught us how to solder LEDs to tape wire.  He told us if you have an AC transformer they will flicker and have a shorter life.  On DC you have to make certain you attach the positive and negative wires to your tape, or round wire, to the corresponding polarity.  Mr. K adds a bridge rectifier to his LED strips so you don't have to worry about their polarity.  The four I bought from him I put in these cabinets.  

Above the stove I used ones the I purchased in a strip off the internet along with LED connectors made by Real Good Toys.  

CR2S also sells LED lights and strips, you can find their website at www.CR2S.com.  These guys are really helpful and take the time to answer any questions.  You can even call them and they'll take you through, step by step.

LEDs are great, they don't get warm like incandescent lights, they don't use as much electric power, and they last longer than incandescent bulbs, but they are direct light, almost spotlights, so they don't bathe the room in light like incandescent bulbs.

Hope that helps.  And, so glad you like my cabinets!

10 hours ago, kathi17 said:

That looks great! On some LEDs I just bought, it said you could dim them down with paint. Acrylics are supposed to dim them more than oils. You can use colors to shade them. I haven't tried them yet, but I know I will have to dim mine!

Thanks, Kathi!  I have used a clear acrylic Gallery Glass window color (Amber) to color the lights, with great success, but it doesn't dim them much.  Thanks for the tip.

I never thought of the Gallery Glass, but I can see why it wouldn't dim them much. My lights were from miniatures.com, but they were from a model railroad lighting place. (I can't remember the name of it, but that website has a lot of lights). Mine run on a 9 volt battery. They came with 5 lights on separate wire sets, and you connect them with shrink tubing.

I wasn't really sure what I wanted for lights, but I wanted to put them in the Ryokan. I don't want to connect the floors on the ryokan, because I want to take it to shows more easily, so  I wanted to wire each floor separately, and I wasn't sure whether or not I would always have electricity in places where I want to bring it, so I figured several sets of these would be the easiest way.

The drawback will be that I won't be able to leave the lights on all the time without draining the batteries. Once I get it all done, I will probably try to figure out something so I have some electric lights as well. Maybe something like miniature floodlights that are obviously only there to bathe the inside with soft light, so it won't look like some of the lights don't work when I'm away from electricity.

Where each floor is completely independent of the other floors, it will be really easy to add lighting whenever I want to.

I'm playing 'catchup' again but better late than...........

I've tried every which way to dim these LEDs without using a physical dimmer.............I now use physical dimmers!