Under-cabinet Lighting Installed
In part of my workspace preparation, I wanted to make sure I had plenty of lighting. I bought these easy install under-cabinet lights from Black+Decker. If you are interested in them, they are the LEDUC9-5CK, and the item number at Lowe’s is 896779. These are meant to be plugged into an outlet, so you need to have one readily available. Luckily, I had just installed a long strip of outlets that I got from Harbor Freight not too long ago.
They are very bright, and with all five together it gives me plenty of light on the counter top. There are varied segments of wire that they provide you in the kit, as well as some connectors that allow you to butt them up one against the other. There are only two of those though, so you can only have three of the segments together as one light. There are three lengths of cables. One was roughly two inches, another that was 6 inches, and the ones I never used were roughly a foot.
The kit comes with these 3M adhesive clips for both the lights and for cable management. They were easy to place and are moldable to wrap around the cables so they don’t fall out. The only tools I needed, was a 1/2″ drill bit and my cordless drill to drill holes through the cabinet sides for the cables to go through. You don’t have to do this, but I wanted to keep the cables as hidden as possible.
These are adjustable lights, so if you want to change the brightness you just hold down the button on any one of the lights and it will cycle through the brightness for you. Once you find the brightness you want, you just let go of the button. The central power hub also has a motion sensor for turning the lights on and off. I would place this close to your exit path, as I didn’t do this and now I have to walk a little further to get the lights turned off. Not a big deal at all, but just something I didn’t think about and now I wish I could change it. I could, but I don’t want to remove the 3M adhesive from that hub and replace it.
Here is a link to the lights at Lowe’s if anyone is interested. https://www.lowes.com/pd/BLACK-DECKER-5-Bar-LED-Under-Cabinet-Lighting-Kit-Cool-White-5-Pack-9-in-Plug-in-Light-Bar/1000332145
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