okay i was looking to get some smart led strip lights for my um desk so as you can see on
the floor i have um a 1 by 2 by 10 foot furring strip i don't need that large but it was 2
dollars and 50 cents and i'm gonna probably use about five feet and what i'm gonna do
is just place it behind the left monitor and behind the and behind the computer on the
right so i'm using about five feet and i'm gonna mount that to the wall and i'm gonna
wrap the leds around that burning strip instead of um trying to tack it to the desk or to
the wall i rather have it on the spurring strip and then i'll just put two screws into
the wall with the furring strip and that'll hold it on there it doesn't have to hold any
weight so it's going to be really easy
okay so i'm going to show you what i'm actually going to do here from the end of the monitor
to the end of the computer here on the right is basically
60 62 inches i'm going to go in a little further and say about 60 inches
like right about there i want this wood to stick out past the monitor i want that to
be hidden somewhat
so we're going to do about a 60 inch cut into this wood and then we're gonna drill some
holes and we'll mount the led strips to it
all right i gotta mount the wood to the wall after i cut it and i'm gonna use these things
called wall dogs i'll leave a link in the description for amazon on these if you want
to buy them but there are special screws that you can use to screw directly into drywall
you don't have to pre-drill or anything if you don't want to use that you can use regular
anchors like i have up there on the left corner in the yellow box at harbor freight or you
can get these from anywhere they're they're stronger they can hold 50 pounds this thing's
gonna weigh like two pounds or not even a pound so these wall dogs will work fine here
i just gotta um pre-drill the wood and countersink somewhat because he's just kind of short screws
so i'll do that so this is what we want to do we want to be able to put this dog wall
dog screw in like that that deep so we gotta countersink it this deep so that it has some
grab on the end to grab the drywall so i already drilled a hole here and i'm gonna countersink
it to about here so that we get that much um light in the wall i already did it with
a smaller bit i'm gonna go to a bigger bit and use tape to stop it from going farther
and then it needs to to the top of that stand probably this monitor is smaller so we might
have to actually go buy this one more well this one has a lot of room and then you got
your computer which you're going to have a lot of room as well so the one on the end
that is closer to the wall is the one that you have to worry about and looks from the
looks of it we do pretty good close to the top and the bottom that way we'll get more
light on this hutch on top okay i did use the 3m tape it was pretty easy to take off
and so far i got one strip on one side we're gonna have two strips on one side and one
strip on the bottom when this is all done all right this is what it looks like in red
i have one strip on the um bottom and two strips on the top i have two strips on the
top because it's going to be darker up there so we're going to put this in place now okay
now you can see that i have the wood up and i have the lights facing up and down and we're
gonna see when i put the other monitor on what it looks like here's one monitor as it
is all right so there it is i used a 16.4 foot cable and i got the entire thing lit
up um it actually lights up the bottom of the floor a little bit as well which is pretty
cool you may not be able to see much in this video because it's kind of dark and all that
blue is the light and i'll switch it to red
i like red and blue actually so red red red there's your red it's really hard to see maybe
in the um in the video let me see if i do this one maybe you can see a little bit better
that way but it looks pretty good in person i mean and it's a lot cleaner
so i think it's worth doing this way i'll i'll have amazon links into this and for the
um wood dogs that i use to put into the wall without having to pre-drill so if you want
to get either of those there be in the description links for that for amazon
The Best Way to Add an LED Strip Light to your Computer Desk or Anywhere