Cove Lighting

Three things are called T5: the fluorescent fixture, the LED tube and the LED bar. Three gates decide which one stays and when LED strip takes over the run.

Hide LED strip by the ceiling you have: cove, trimless recess or shadow gap in gypsum, a pocket or cloud edge in a grid, a flange in exposed structure.

How to light a coffered ceiling with LED strip: gap by coffer depth, watts per coffer, drivers per grid, 192 corners and where drivers stay reachable.

How to turn a cove corner with LED strip without a dark spot: classify the corner, choose S-shape, corner connector or jumper, and plan the cut-grid gap.

Cove lighting dimensions worked out: the gap that avoids scallops, a lip height from the sightline, and a pocket sized from real channels and the feed wire.

LED strip in a church or auditorium has to dim low without banding on the stream, match from run to run and vanish when off. Five strip jobs and a worked cove.

Curved cove LED strip works when the product bends in the plane of the curve: S-shape strip and side-bend neon for rotundas, bendable channel for barrel vaults.

Ballroom cove lighting on RGBW LED strip: a true white channel, zones and DMX decoders for a 240 ft cove, and the rule that settles panel versus console.

Replacing fluorescent cove lighting with LED strip, floor by floor: tubes vs strip, keep the 120V circuit or add drivers, match T8 output, dimming, lots.

Where LED strip goes on a ceiling cloud or floating ceiling: lip, setback and gap ranges, scalloping, corner channels, feeds around the perimeter and access.

Cove lumens per foot start from the light you need on the ceiling. Work back through setback, lip, finish and diffuser losses to a strip tier and driver load.

Spec COB where anyone can see the strip or its reflection, SMD where the cove hides it. Compare efficacy, CRI and run length with real models, plus other uses.