I’m working on my wardrobe light right now. I bought 10 meters of 4mm wide COB stripe with 4000K and a CRI of 90 (at least according to specs, I will check with my Opple once it’s done).
Cut 14 55cm long pieces at first, then came the annoying part of getting it into the alu profiles. Those are a huge pain to work with, but with a bit of patience and the use of fine tweezers it turned out to be possible.
The profiles have some diffusing inserts, so I guess I wouldn’t even have had to buy COB stripes, but hey. They cost barely more than regular ones.
Specs say 5W/m, I am getting 2.6W (at 24V) for 55cm so sounds pretty accurate. Still 36W for the entire wardrobe. I will put one switch per door, however, so it’s divided in 4 separately hard-switched segments.
This light, together with some WW/CW + RGB stripes on top of the wardrobe, will be controlled by one of these:
A pretty simple 6ch LED PWM controller with an esp32-c6. Currently running Tasmota, I am hoping to switch to WLED soon for better smarthome integration. Although the wardrobe will be mostly a “set up once, never change” thing, but I like having options. It is supplied through a buck converter directly off the 24V LED input.
A second of these will control my main room lighting and light around the working desk, and that one is also equipped with a whole lot of sensors (humidity, temperature, pressure, VOC, CO2) - not really out of necessity, but if I already have a ESP32 running 24/7, why not.
More pics will follow when I actually make some progress - this is a pretty long running project because I’m way too lazy to tackle it 