LED HOUSING and MOUNTING PROFILES

LED Strip Lighting is growing in popularity and ease of use, for the home and workplace, because of the many benefits of using LED Strips over conventional lighting. These include:

• 60% to 70% energy saving on power consumption
• reduced heat generated by the fittings, giving a longer working life
• compact size of the LED Strips, with very thin wiring
• ability to dim, display different colours, and other technological features
• gradual reduction in price along with improvements in performance of LED lighting

LED Strips are light, largely self-contained, with self adhesive backing, and do not require complicated fittings or wiring. Standard LED Lighting is low wattage, approximately 10.-12mm wide, and generates so little heat that a simple PVC Channel is suitable for use as housing. This provides the opportunity to mount LED low wattage strips easily onto walls, cupboards or other similar surfaces, needing only a flat clean surface onto which the LED housing will mount. This combination of factors make LED Strip Lights suitable for DIY projects as well as ideal for more industrial lighting projects. For high wattage LED strips, we recommend using our Metal Muffin mounting profile, particularly suited to large scale and exhibition style arrays.

Note that most 2 part mounting profiles rely on the jaws of the base expanding when the lid or diffuser is fitted. Once in place the jaws return to their original position and width. If you are recessing a profile or fitting into a corner you will need to allow approx 1mm of extra width to allow this.

STOCK LED MOUNTING PROFILES

Tubeway stock well designed but simple to use profiles for LED Mounting, which because of their attractive appearance are effective whether in view or part of an invisible LED fitting. These can be quickly installed using self adhesive tape, clips or screws, having prepared and pre-installed the LED Strip. The result is a very cost effective, lightweight and practical LED housing, for low wattage LED strips, or additionally for high wattage strips use the Metal Muffin profile.

There are a few points to note, however, in general use of PVC as LED housing:

• even low wattage LED Strips generate some heat, which will affect the working life of standard self adhesive tapes, so it is recommended that either Easyfix High Mass Tape is used, or standard tape is supported by a small number of retaining screws
• low wattage LED Strip Lighting is safe to use with PVC, but high wattage must be used with metal housings as it can generate enough heat to melt plastic.
• High Mass Tape has very aggressive adhesive, making it suitable for many purposes, not just permanent stick-only LED mounting. For use with LED's. as they are not at all heavy, short pieces of High Mass Tape can be used rather than continuous runs, to reduce costs.

See the short video for information about our current LED Mounting stock range. This now includes the Mini Mount, a neat little aluminium channel in anodised silver or painted white, which is packed with pairs of end caps, clips and screws. Prepare the LED strip in the base, wire through the end cap, clip in the diffuser, screw the clips in place and push the Mini Mount in for a simple permanent fitting.

Stock LED Profiles with Dimensions

PVC Cupcake Mounting

PVC Muffin Mounting

Aluminium Metal Muffin

PVC Box Mount

Aluminium Mini Mount

Measurements are for guidance only - if critical please contact our Sales team to discuss