Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Click on the question to see, download, and print wiring diagrams for our most popular LED light fixtures. These simple schematics tell you how to wire under cabinet lighting by connecting LED light bars and tubes to plug-in adapters or hard-wired drivers; waterproof and non-waterproof light strips to a 12VDC power supply; and RGB strips and light bars to a low-voltage transformer.
The answer, in most cases, is yes! Click on the question to see a page that explains how dimming LED lights works; how you can dim our LED lights with either a 12V DC dimmer switch or using a 120V AC dimmer switch; and which of our LED lights are dimmable and which are not. Our wiring diagrams will show you the ins and outs of dimmer switch installation and dimmer switch wiring, both with a 12V DC dimmer and a high voltage household dimmer.
“IP” stands for Ingress Protection. All of our products have IP ratings, which always has two numbers: the first stands for the protection against solid objects, the second number for protection against liquid. The highest IP rating is 68, and it tells you that the protection against solid objects is a 6, and the protection against liquid is an 8. Click on the question to see the scale of IP ratings.
Light emitting diodes, commonly called LEDs perform many different jobs and are found in all types of devices. Among other things, they form the numbers on digital clocks, transmit information from remote controls, light up watches and tell you when your appliances are turned on. Collected together, they can form images on a jumbo television Learn More
“Lumens” is the unit of measurement for the brightness of a light. Don’t confuse this with “wattage”, which is the unit of measurement for the electricity consumed by a light. If you’re used to incandescent bulbs, you probably use “lumens” and “wattage” interchangeably. But an LED fixture with the brightness of a “40 Watt” incandescent light uses much less electricity that 40 Watts. Click on the question to see a PDF that compares the lumens of our LED lights with their wattage.
The color temperature of a light fixture is a measurement of the amount of yellow or blue in the white light that it produces. This measurement is expressed in kelvins; a higher kelvin number means the light is cooler/more blue, and a lower number means that it’s warmer/more yellow. Click on the question to see the kelvin scale.
