Great idea for perhaps general lighting. Doesn't have to be just
cove but can be in the middle of the room fixtures also when designed the same in perhaps projecting towards the
stage.
My recommendation in doing
cove has been in the past to make the shape of the
cove light more like a "Softlight" in design of indirect to curved matt white
reflector. This so efficient use of the
reflection in spreading the beam is being done indirectly in the most efficient means.
After that for
intensity, don't do the 3 and 4
node per color high output lighting. It is good when you only have 1/2" worth of space to place the tape, but in a
cove you should have a lot more room than that. If you have a few inches in width to work with, put solid color high output, if not even high density individual tapes next to each other. Have not been able to try this solid color
RGB yet a lot, but did some prototyping with a
cove in a few prototypes such as high output
RGB next to a high output/high density white. Note there is also four
node wide, and I think even six
node wide high density tape available in white and solid colors.... It's intense the amount of light output. I'm about to use some four
node in a light box sign - it is as a trade off however, a wattage eater. The more in tape you can do in single color, the higher the output as a theory.
One note, I learned by mistake. The larger the load and matched
transformer to it, the more it's cooling fans will turn on or be constantly on. The larger the
transformer in comparison to wattage, the less the fan will be on under a lesser load. Meanwell
Transformer SE series is mostly always on for fan no matter the load. The more expensive RSP series has a thermostat turning it on and off when needed.
Never really mattered before an office
lobby install recently. Was told the
PSU inside a large
NEMA 1 box with its decoder and
ETC' controllers was going into an electronics closet. Turns out somehow the
PSU was to be installed into the ceiling of a hallway adjacent to the lighting. "Too Loud" - the fans in the hallway. Cost about $150.00 more in higher wattage and better
transformer assuming I can re-use the 1K
transformer, to install a 2Kw RSP
power supply for a 1Kw need, and probably as much to overnight it as replacement to the hotel. Than a few more bucks to get that package from the hotel.
Never thought of the noise of the fan before - I mostly do rock and
roll stuff and the
PSU's are way out of the way. Biggest problem has been RF noise with the sound people due to the density of the
LED tape and dual connections top and bottom for each in creating a RF loop. Different discussion and should not be a problem in this case.
The RSP series fan still turns on at times random = too much, and is due to be replaced by another
transformer remotely located where I thought it was going to be - the electronics closet. But given how I mounted it with all the other gear in the
NEMA box, the $375.00 spent on a 2Kw
power supply which basically took me a day in swapping out the SE
transformer for... will be bypassed = abandoned in the now just distribution box for decoder and
ETC control gear. Not cost effective to remove the
transformer - would take at least a day to remove. The new
transformer remotely located will go in somewhere else it should have gone in the first place. Leaned some stuff. Hope it helps. Don't locate your
power supply near the lighting if an over 600
Watt loading on it.