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Practical articles for mirror and furniture lighting: stair lighting, defogger pads, wiring and troubleshooting mirror switches, connecting strips, choosing drivers and sensor switches.
How to Choose an Under-Cabinet Lighting Transformer
Choosing an under cabinet lighting transformer: match a 12V LED driver to the strip voltage, size the watts with a formula and plan headroom and location.
How to Connect Multiple LED Strip Lights
How to connect multiple LED strip lights together: series vs parallel feeds, picking an LED strip connector and sizing a 12V power supply for several runs.
How to Install a Mirror Defogger Pad
Mirror defogger pad installation step by step: match the pad voltage, place it on the glass, stick it flat, wire it to a defogger switch and test it.
LED Mirror Touch Switch Not Working: Causes and Fixes
Touch sensor mirror not working? Check power, glass contact, glass thickness, overload, moisture and model mismatch, with a fix for each fault.
LED Strip Lights for Stairs: Controllers, Sensors and Wiring
LED strip on stairs: how a stair controller, motion sensors, 12V or 24V strip and a sized power supply fit together, with wiring steps and load maths.
Touch Dimmer Switches for LED Strips Explained
How a touch dimmer switch for LED strips works, surface, hidden and mirror types, how to match the load and how to wire a touch sensor dimmer switch.
What Is a Hand-Wave Sensor Switch?
What a hand-wave sensor switch is, how IR and hidden proximity sensors work, how it compares with touch and door switches and how to wire one for cabinets.
What Is a Mirror Defogger and How Does It Work?
A mirror defogger is a heating pad behind the glass that warms it above the dew point. How it works, how it is powered and switched, and how to size it.
How to Wire a Mirror Touch Switch (12V and Mains-Input Types)
Wiring order, the two switch types, defogger outputs and the checks to make before closing the mirror back.
How to Add a Switch to Under-Cabinet LED Lighting
Hidden touch, hand-wave and door sensor switches for cabinet LED strips: which to choose, where to fit it and how to wire it.
12V vs 24V for Cabinet and Closet LED Lighting
When to choose 12V or 24V LED strips, switches and drivers for furniture lighting, with worked current examples.
How to Size a Mirror Defogger Pad
Choose the pad size, power and voltage for a bathroom mirror defogger, with power worked out from the pad area.
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