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Guides to specifying linear LED lighting, stories from our projects and news from the Artcolor team.
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Why LED strips can show lines in backlit onyx and marble, how a flexible LED sheet lights the stone evenly, which sheet to choose and how to plan the power.
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A short film and a checklist: how to choose between strip, neon flex and wall washer, and the terms that turn one vague schedule line into a specification someone can build.
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A chase that looked smooth in the mock-up moves in blocks on site, with colours in the wrong order. Why a pixel isn't always one LED, and what to confirm before the content is made.
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A schedule calls for a "DALI LED strip", and on site the run won't take its address. Where DALI actually lives in a strip system, and what to specify instead.
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An RGB strip can mix something close to white, but rarely the white you specified. When to choose RGB, RGBW or RGB+CCT, and why channel count changes the whole system.
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A reference sample is one piece made with full attention; mass production is many. What changes between the two, and what to agree in writing so the order matches the light you approved.
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Tunable white often looks right at full warm and full cool, and slightly wrong at the settings people actually use. How to define endpoints, mixing and output across the range.
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When one stretch of a cove turns dim and yellow before the rest, heat is usually the reason. How mounting, sealing and W/m change the thermal picture, and what to plan before the joinery is built.
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LED tape that looks flawless at full output can shimmer, step or band on camera at low levels. Why dimming is a system question, and how to test it before handover.
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A concealed LED strip can still show up as a row of bright dots in glass, polished stone or a jewellery case. Why it happens and how to design it out.
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Two strips with the same CCT and the same CRI can still render reds, skin and textiles very differently. What Ra leaves out, and how to judge colour quality properly.
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Two reels can both say 3000K and still look green and pink side by side. Here is why a Kelvin value isn't enough, and what to put in the brief instead.
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Voltage decides how long and how even your lines of light can be. Here is how to choose between 12 V, 24 V and 48 V strips.
