Today, I am going to discuss a little about the lighting effects of the side-viewing SMD LED. In the earlier test, the LED was taped on the surface of the ceiling. This was the ideal setup because the Conex Box does not have any trunking or solutions to conceal electrical wiring. What’s more, in this position, the LED flooded the whole interior with harsh light.
The only problem is the wiring which, if I were to follow of what would be the normal method at that time, the interior would have some hanging wires. That would look cool except that in some images on the Internet, it was a single 2-core wire to a lamp. In this setup though, each LED required two wires. And because of my plan to put it outside a Military Base, I might need to look for a 1/35 scale portable AC Generator too.
(Image courtesy of www.alamy.com #F3T274)
The Embedding
Given the SMD LEDs have a wide viewing angle of an average of 140º, the idea of embedding the LED would have some detrimental effect but not too serious. It’s like pulling a torchlight back into a box where the lights would somewhat shrink depending on how deep the torchlight was pulled.
Conclusion
If I were to make another Mini Shop, I would like to mount the SMD LEDs on the surface instead of embedding them, and then glue in the lampshades. This, I believe, would make the lighting fragile but more or less, gave the proper effect of a light bulb (60 watts?).
