Ikea Dioder LED strips

[TheVoice]

Anyone had any experience with these? They seem rather inexpensive, and I think they'd look quite good on my AV cabinet. I've looked at some others that use remotes etc, but to be honest it'd be just another remote to deal with.

I've been looking at two sets, this one which has a control switch and offers various colours:
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/00202324/

And this cheaper one which is just white:
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/00119419/

The thing swaying me towards the white kit is that my eyes (due to the lenses in my glasses) are a bit sensitive to LEDs when more than one colour is being used at a time e.g. when the light on my Sky box is orange, I can sometimes see the individual red and green light from the two LEDs. So, if the coloured set uses RGB LEDs to produce white light (as opposed to white LEDs), I'm more likely to notice the individual colours, whereas obviously the white strips will just use white LEDs.

Anyone had any experience with these kits?

 

[TheVoice]

It's nothing to do with your lenses. I can see the same on my Sky box. It's because of viewing the LED directly rather than looking at the light bounced off some reflective surface.

If you are concealing the lights then you won't have much of a problem. You can always fit some translucent frosted film to act as a diffuser.

It is partly my lenses, it didn't used to happen with my previous ones but it's because my new lenses are larger than the ones in my old glasses. It was rather off-putting at first as things towards the edges of the lenses look a bit out of focus but my eyes have adjusted. It's just annoying that multi-coloured lights tend to have a weird effect; I bought a Philips colour-changing mood light to put behind my TV but I rarely use it because the combination of different-coloured LEDs strains my eyes.

This is why I'm keen to avoid multi-colour LED strips if possible, because the RGB combination to make white (as opposed to white LEDs) will just strain my eyes, especially if they're in my peripheral vision whilst I'm watching TV.

 

[TheVoice]

I have the ikea dioder in your top link, brilliant on small telly, but look at the ebay options for greater coverage as I found you need more behind a 40"+ tv to get a decent effect. Brilliant when it's done properly!

What's the white on it like? Do you know if it uses a combination of the coloured LEDs to give a 'white' light?

 

[TheVoice]

Pics would be great Raymond, curious to see what these things are like, whether they're too bright, not white etc. £25 for a 4-strip set from Ikea, it's not a lot but I don't want to end up with something I don't want to use.

 

[TheVoice]

You could but you would have to solder on a new connector i'd imagine. I managed to get a set of 4 x 50cm for £32.

Pics when they arrive would be great. I'm still swaying towards the Ikea white ones myself, they seem ideal for what I want but I'm still looking for any alternatives.