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Desk lighting

Andybtsn

Andybtsn

Andybtsn

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Hi guys


The above is my desk, I want better lighting on it and was considering LED's on the back of the monitors to go a long with the desk lamp I have. Will it benefit me at all? I don't like using the main room light as it's too bright and I like the ambiance of the desk lamp but it's probably not enough for me to see everything clearly!

Has anyone got pics of their desktop lighting? Not after crazy colours!
 
No backlit keyboard? Or are you talking for general use purposes i.e. 'homework' and the like?

Personally I'd say yours is sufficiently lit! But everyone's different.

I'm also interested to see what comes up on here :) maybe give me some ideas for my new desk (yet to be built!)
 
I had a similar dilemma and fixed it with some cheap SMD 5050 RGB strips off eBay; http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/5050-3528..._Lights_Fairy_Lights&var=&hash=item19edb98ea2
A 300LED 5M kit off something like that listing

They do crazy colours and I put them up on the roof using some double sided tape


You could happily run them behind your desk or so, they are very cheap and give off an insane amount of light :) I normally leave mine on the white colour when working etc

Some pictures of mine

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Hi guys,

To add I did get something the equivalent of what Shivy suggested am happy with the results. The annoying this and I presume something is faulty, when the LED's are off, they still shine a very dim blue which is extremely visible in the dark. What could cause this? Faulty power?

 
It could be your getting back feed through the psu or the switch is not disengaging properly.
 
I did notice it was extremely hard plugging the kettle lead into the power brick as the top prong seems to be slightly thicker at the end over the other two. I've asked for a replacement power pack.
 
Yeah, will see what they say, I don't want to redo the LED's on the desk that's for sure, not that the back tape will last very long, I imagine when I get home it will have come unstuck anyway :(
 
The LEDs themselves should be fine, it'll be either the controller box that I linked or the power brick as you/RJC said, highly doubt it's the LEDs themselves

As for the rubbish tape (I found this rubbish also :D ) get some industrial double sided tape, that's how I stuck them to the roof :)
 
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