LED Channels

Length Customization: The Flexibility of LED Channels

LED channels offer flexible length options, typically available in standard lengths like 48 inches, 6.5 feet, or 8 feet, but users can easily cut or join them to fit specific installation needs. Here’s a more detailed explanation of LED channel length customization:

1. Standard Length Options

• Easy to Purchase and Install: Standard lengths, such as 48 inches or 6.5 feet, are common options, making them widely available from most retailers and usually compatible with standard LED strip sizes.
• Suitable for Different Applications: These standard lengths are ideal for a variety of residential and commercial applications, especially for linear lighting needs like kitchen countertops, under-cabinet areas, and ceiling edges.

2. Flexible Cutting Capability

• Easy to Adjust: Most LED channels are made of aluminum, making them easy to cut with a handsaw or cutting tool. This flexibility allows users to trim channels to any length required, accommodating precise dimensions for unique spaces.
• Perfect for Complex Layouts: When working around corners, wall edges, or ceiling angles, users can cut channels as needed for higher installation flexibility.

3. Connecting Multiple Channels

• Seamless Extension: Multiple LED channels can be joined together to extend the lighting for longer areas, making them ideal for large-scale projects such as corridors, display cabinets, or expansive ceiling installations.
• Connectors and Accessories: Many LED channel systems come with connectors, allowing two or more channels to be seamlessly joined, achieving a continuous and smooth lighting effect without gaps.

4. Adapts to Various Installation Needs

• Perfect for Custom Projects: In projects requiring different lengths, such as inside cabinets, path lighting, or furniture backlighting, users can easily cut or join channels to achieve specific lengths.
• Material and Cost Efficiency: Customization minimizes material waste and helps control costs by precisely fitting channels to the needed length.

5. Consistent Lighting Effect

• Even Light Distribution: Even when cut or joined, LED channels maintain an even light distribution, preventing light interruptions or uneven brightness.
• Compatible with Different Light Sources: Adjustable LED channels can accommodate various LED strip sizes, allowing users to choose the right channel length for the LED source.

6. Common Applications

• Residential: Custom lengths are ideal for areas like under-cabinet lighting, mirror frames, kitchen countertops, and other areas requiring precise installation.
• Commercial and Public Spaces: For retail displays, restaurant lighting, hallways, or lobbies, connecting multiple channels creates a seamless lighting effect over long distances.
• Special Spaces: For complex layouts like staircases or outdoor pathways, adjusting LED channel lengths allows them to perfectly fit specific areas, enhancing both safety and aesthetic lighting.

The length customization of LED channels brings greater convenience and flexibility to various lighting projects, accommodating diverse environments and lighting needs while maintaining a high-quality, even lighting effect.

What Can LED Channels Do?

LED channels are available in a variety of variants of different shapes and functional designs, making them suitable for almost any space. The length is easy to adjust. If you need it to be long, you can connect several pieces together. If you need a short LED channels, it is easy to cut short. Thanks to this flexibility, LED aluminum extrusions can be used to successfully design strip lighting for any space.

Together with LED strip lights, LED aluminum channel with cover has been widely used in interior lighting, especially for under-cabinet lighting, ceiling lighting, showcase lighting, stair lighting, accent lighting and decorative lighting for walls and floors.

When used with our outdoor waterproof LED strip lights, they are suitable for outdoor lighting for landscapes, gardens, patios, verandas, and walkways.

Below are the typical examples of what LED aluminum extrusions can do. But remember, your imagination knows no boundary for LED profile applications.

LED aluminum cove channels

LED aluminum cove channels are designed for the installation of cove lighting. With LED cove lighting, it is very easy to set the general lighting or accent lighting in the room. Cove lighting is a typical indirect lighting that the light is projected onto the ceiling or walls and then reflected into the room.

Cove LED aluminum channels can be placed on ceiling suspension or laid along the wall. In both applications, the distance from the ceiling must be at least 5-7 cm to ensure uniform illumination. This distance can vary depending on the LED density of the light strip.

And as this distance increases, the area of light projection is larger, and the reflected light is softer and more scattered. The shadows in the room are getting weaker and weaker, and the transition is smoother.

In addition to where the cove LED aluminum channels are placed, the angle of light projection is also important.

LED Aluminum Ceiling Channels

LED aluminum ceiling channels are primarily used for ceiling mounting. Most of these profiles provide enough space to mount one or more LED strips side by side. Therefore, you can get enough indoor lighting brightness. There are also LED aluminum channels for drywall, they are mounted sinking into hollow walls and ceilings.

LED Aluminum Stair Channels

More and more stairways use LED channels to install light strips, which brings very beautiful and practical lighting. Installed on the edge of the steps, the stair aluminum profiles protect the stairs, and mark the steps of the stairs for safely. There is also a type of LED aluminum profile that is mounted in the stair handrail and illuminates the stair area.

LED aluminum showcase channels

LED channels are very popular in commercial display lighting. For example, LED strip lighting is very suitable for retail spaces and for merchandise display cabinets or shelves. If the aluminum strip is used alone, there are many LED lighting spots, which are not beautiful. LED Aluminum profiles are often used for auxiliary installation to improve the appearance of the luminaire and achieve more uniform illumination.

LED aluminum glass edge lighting channels

Glass edge profiles with LED strips are to be mounted on the edge of the glass. Different glass edge profiles are designed for different glass contours. A common model would be the aluminum led channel for 6mm glass. With matching LED strips, you can achieve stylish glass edge lighting.

LED aluminum floor channels

The characteristics of floor LED channel are that the aluminum profiles and covers can withstand considerable weight. There is no problem when people step on them. In addition, most floor profiles can be sealed to provide IP67 protection for outdoor use.

High Quality LED Channels

We make LED channel by using quality components. Our LED channel systems are made by selected extrusions, diffuser covers, end caps and mounting brackets.

The LED channel are made of high quality anodized aluminum and are designed for housing and protecting flexible or rigid LED strip lights. The anodized layer is called aluminum oxide, which is even harder than steel. The thicker the aluminum oxide layer, the more difficult for LED channels to deform, the better quality the aluminum channel.

For typical aluminum oxide, the depth is up to 5 microns. Our aluminum extrusions are treated to 10 microns, which results in a hard aluminum oxide coating that is able to withstand chemical attack and other damage elements.

Although aluminum doesn't rust, it can deteriorate in the presence of certain elements and particles. The aluminum oxide layer on the surface provides proper protection against corrosion. The better the oxidation, the smoother and more upscale the profile looks.

In short, due to the small size and many other above-mentioned benefits of LED aluminum channels, and due to the flexibility and versatility of LED strip lights, they have often been used together in many modern lighting applications. Adding aluminum channels to your LED strip lighting will not only prolong the strip light lifetime, but also allow you to enjoy lighting of better effects.

The right LED strip lights can perfectly pair with the channel, ensuring optimal lighting effects and user experience.