Wall Panel LED Lighting 08: eight lights per transformer, planned

Planning lighting for a whole panelled wall runs into one question the pages in this category mostly dodge: how many strips can share a transformer. Wall Panel LED Lighting 08 - Flexible (4pcs) is the one listing here that answers it, and that makes it the sensible starting point for a big run.

Eight lights per transformer

The listing states eight lights per transformer. A pack holds four pieces, so two packs of uncut strip sit on one transformer, and a third pack needs a second one. Write that into the plan early, because a transformer wants a home behind the boards and that home has to be decided before the boards go on.

One caution, and the listing does not resolve it: these strips are cut to length, and nothing states whether a cut piece counts as one light or whether both halves can be wired. If your plan runs to nine or ten separate lit lines from cut pieces, ask the shop to confirm the count with the supplier rather than working to the figure of eight and hoping.

Over 180cm of cable from each strip

Each light carries more than 180cm of cable to reach the transformer. Against a 240cm strip that is generous, but it is not unlimited, and every strip has to arrive at the same box. Two practical consequences:

• Put the transformer near the centre of the group it feeds, not at the end of the wall. A strip at the far corner is the one that runs out of cable.
• Keep access to it. Behind a removable panel, in a cupboard or inside a fitted unit is fine. Permanently sealed behind glued boards is not.

Cut to length, in multi-colour

The strip is flexible and cut to length, on a profile 14mm wide and 11mm deep with a black body, and the light is dimmable multi-colour with a remote. Four pieces of 240cm is 9.6m of strip in a pack, though each run still has to come out of a single piece, because nothing on the page says two can be joined. You cut to the lengths your wall wants rather than designing around stocked lengths as you would with Pack 01 or Pack 02. The description also suggests under-cabinet and architectural use, which the cutting makes possible.

Two differences from its white twin are worth noting, because they are easy to assume away. Pack 07 states a wall mount for its remote and an installation video. This listing states neither. The rest of the two pages reads the same, apart from the colour and the transformer count above, so if you want the handset to live on the wall, check that point before choosing between them.

The figures, pack and carton

• Size available: 240cm. Four pieces per pack.
• Profile 14mm wide by 11mm deep, black strip.
• Dimmable multi-colour LED, remote control.
• Flexible, cut to length, no trim.
• Over 180cm of cable per light. Eight lights per transformer.
• Single pack 25 x 25 x 10cm, gross 1.95kg, CBM 0.006.
• Ten pack carton 58 x 53 x 27cm, gross 19.5kg, CBM 0.083.
• Code AWS-AS015.

What to settle before you order

No wattage, lumen output or kelvin value is published, and no IP rating, so brightness and any damp location are questions for the shop. Where a cut can be made along the strip is not stated either. The first cover image is flagged on the listing as an AI generated visual representation, so judge the look from the rest of the photographs. The other options are on the Panel Lighting page. Delivery is free within 50 miles of the Glasgow store and £50 beyond. With your run lengths listed and the transformer position marked on the drawing, order Wall Panel LED Lighting 08 - Flexible (4pcs) and ask about the light count on a cut strip at the same time.