Dimmable LED strip lights?

[HellaFab]

Hey guys,

Im looking at LED strip lights and unlike most standard screw-base bulbs the strip lights rarely mention that they are dimmable.

I am moving into a new garage and need to start clean with lighting. I do a lot of welding and would like to be able to lower the level of lighting in areas of the garage while still getting SOME light.

One of the things in my current garage is getting glare on the inside of my welding helmet which would be better not to have but I also want the high lumen output for general garage work.

 

[cybrdyke]

If you get away from using LED tubes, then almost everything is dimmable. Any new LED fixture will have a 0-10VDC dimming driver.
A couple examples of LED strip lights.....

If your ceilings are high, you can get away with the open LED's, but if your ceilings are lower, those things will blind ya... get a diffuser.
Are you limited to using strip lights? Cuz there's a lot of choices out there.....
CD

 

[PhysicsDude]

What exactly do you mean by "light strips"?

Generally speaking, most any LED powered by <72V DC power is dimmable. ALL LEDs are generally dimmable, its the Driver that needs to be specially build to DIM based on a dimmed AC waveform.

 

[gte718p]

What exactly do you mean by "light strips"?

Generally speaking, most any LED powered by <72V DC power is dimmable. ALL LEDs are generally dimmable, its the Driver that needs to be specially build to DIM based on a dimmed AC waveform.

All LED's are dimmable. However the power electronics many not be setup to allow it. The actual LED diode is DC powered. All of them will accept pulse width modulation of the DC signal.

Most manufactures go cheap on the AC to DC conversion and don't make provisions for switching the DC side. Sad but it save $.10 a fixture and that adds up after a few million fixtures.