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I'm looking at modifying some built in shelving that I have in my house with some LED strips to help my succulents and indoor plants. Due to the fixed nature of the shelves and the relatively narrow spacing between the shelves (about 12"), I don't want anything too bulky or that generates too much heat or that would otherwise blow the plants away.

To meet these requirement, I've been looking at purchasing some LED strip tapes. On the surface this seems like a good fit - low power, low profile, customizable, etc.

The additional thing that I've been looking at is which spectrum of lighting to go with. At first I thought I would be best to go with Red/Blue tape (like the top in the below), but the more I read into it, the more it seems like having a hyper-focused spectrum light like this isn't necessarily good. I'm actually happy about this as it, the shelves are in my living room and I wasn't looking forward to the prospect of having this color of lighting running.

Fast forward, and I've been trying to find some LED tape that is more of a Full Spectrum Sunlight replacement whilst still targeting the blue and red spectrum (similar to the bottom in the below), BUT I can't seem to find a tape version of this. All the ones that I have found are t5's or built into fixtures.

Hence I'm wondering if anyone knows what might be a viable solution for my case and/or if there is a tape that would get me close to what I'm after.

Red/Blue LED Tape Full spectrum led light

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These are 48" long, so may be too large: Lee Valley LED Tape kits. This company has a wide range of LED lighting, so you may want to poke about on their website if these don't work for you. I can recommend the company but I have no experience with their lighting

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Sounds like you need a quantum board!

Not all quantum boards are equal as they use varying qualities of actual LEDs Check out the LED manufacturers for agricultural purposes you will find that it's a two horse race.

The best thing about quantum boards is that they are very thin! And when the voltage is turned down by the dimmer it's cool to the touch

You can easily grow cactus and succulents under a quantum board at 50w! If you know what you are doing. You will have to compensate the lower rate of photons with time You will also need some sort of ventilation You may need temperature regulation to bring the temps up!

These days they are getting cheaper but quantum boards are still at the top of the technology tree so expect to pay real money if your receiving a fully assembled system.

It's cheaper to DIY a custom quantum board system then it would be to buy a ready made one given you dont need a massive system.

A quantum board system would look like this: only an example not recommending this brand

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