ThinStick-LED Linear LED with Frosted Lens

About that magnetic mounting. You can choose to use the mounting clips to mount the lights to non-magnetic surfaces. But on magnetic metal, it is nice that you can position the lights where you need them and the magnets just grip with no need for drilling. The lights are very lightweight. They will mount nicely on the underside of magnetic surfaces.

The ThinStick-LED involves some planning. The lights come in 8", 12", 24", 34" and 46" lengths (rounded up measurements, actual lower on page). You can connect them end to end to make longer lights, and they butt together when connected, thus giving the impression of no gap. Up to 11.7 feet of lights (11 feet, 8 inches), mix and match sizes to reach that, can be powered from a single TS/PC/79/WH/N power cable coming out of the terminal block on the driver. Drivers come in 6 watt, 30 watt, 75 watt, and a 96 watt. You can have multiple TS/PC/79/WH/N power cables coming out of the 30 watt or larger drivers if you need to extend lights in multiple directions, as long as you do not exceed the total wattage of the driver. LED Power Drivers page | Daisy Drivers page

So you will need to measure the lengths of your runs. If you need to extend past the underside of an upper cabinet to the next, and a light rail hangs down (that drop down piece of wood that extends lower than the cabinet bottom), you can drill through the light rail and use a connecting cable to continue power to the next light. Connecting cables come only in three lengths. If too long, roll up the extra. If not long enough, use two or more in conjunction with each other. Thus, if you connect an 24" light and a 34" light end to end, you can make a 56-11/16" seemless light, or you could space them apart with a cable. Et cetera for other various lengths added together. When you have a long even straight line and you would like continuous light, you can create long strings up to 11 feet 8 inches. If you need to go longer than that, you would just start a second run of lights on the same directional line picking up where the first ended, but starting as a new line with a TS/PC/79/WH/N and using any of the KB12LEDCC connecting cables to extend your reach if needed. Additional cables and accessories are shown on the LED drivers and dimmers page.

For L or U shape kitchens, you can centralize your power driver and extend runs in multiple directions. This can save on using excess LED drivers. Lights are very low wattage. If you were to connect eleven of the 12" lights and one of the 8" lights, which would be the maximum for one power cable, that would be 39.4 watts. When using the 75 watt driver, you still have some extra wattage to go the other direction. Extension connecting cables to extend the reach of the TS/PC/79/WH/N power cable are shown on the drivers page. The KB12LEDCC connecting cables are used to extend the reach of the TS/PC/79/WH/N power cables, but the KB12LEDCC cables are NOT used between lights. The TS/CC/2/WH/N, or the 12" or 39" cables are used from light to light. These cable can connect to themselves to make longer reach cables.

The wattages for each light are shown above in the ordering blocks and also under Product Features. Add up the wattages of your planned interconnected lights, and then order the appropriate size power driver. You need one TS/PC/79/WH/N per run of lights, with a maximum of 11.8 feet per power cable.

The ThinStick-LED lights are NOT dimmable. Any of Hera's dimming accessories shown on pages we are linking to in this explanation do not work for the ThinStick. The light is not designed to be dimmable.

The ThinStick-LED lights can be used in conjunction with any of Hera's spotlight LED lights that run from the PS24V drivers. The spotlights connect into the terminal block on the driver directly. The ThinStick-LED light must use the TS/PC/79/WH. That power cable has the jack connection on it to connect into the driver terminal block, and then the ThinStick connecting end to attach to the input end of the first light. Single light runs are fine too. You can have a driver, power cable, and one ThinStick-LED light on a run. Sometimes that is all you need for a small area such as the cubby on a hutch desk.

When interconnecting these lights on display shelves: you can run them across shelves and at multiple levels, and have them continuously connect via connecting cables. You will need multiple drivers for larger display areas. These lights are great under glass shelves too, they can be mounted with two-way tape. On metal shelves, the integrated magnets within them will just stick on. Magnetic mounting is great for attaching them to coolers and other magnetic metal surfaces that you cannot drill into. Not all metal surfaces are magnetic metals. ThinStick-LED lights can be mounted both horizontally and vertically.

The lights are okay to mount within a recessed channel if you do not wish them to protrude downward from the underside of your wood surface.

We know questions generally arise concerning these lights. You are welcome to e-mail or call us.

The ThinStick-LED lights are becoming more popular with us and we are stocking small quanities. Most of the time when we need to order them in from Hera, it is only a 3 to 5 day lead time.

For the two diagrams below, the end view has been updated to show how the new lens wraps around the top of the light, instead of sitting in the channel like the old version. The lights measure just 5/16" wide, and just a little over 5/16" tall. The other diagram is just showing how the lights can be connected end to end. This is true of the old and new versions, and they have the same connectors. All cables work with the old and new versions.

Many comparison photos of the old and new are lower on the page.

Consider this, if you connect 8 of the 12" lights together, this technically would be 94.5 inches. If you connect two of the 46" lights together, you get 89.75 inches. Sometimes using more of the smaller lengths gets you a more tailored run length. And with that 94.5 inches of light, you would be using 27 watts.

The first version of the ThinStick-LED had a frosted shield that laid down in the aluminum channel of the light. Making the light look square and flat on the top. The upgraded version has given this frosted lens a dome type top and it wraps to the outside of the aluminum channel. Overall, it is approx. 1mm taller than it was. But the way it throws the light now has changed. The lights are the same brightness, but the light will flare outward also instead of just straight down. We will show a picture to explain that. There will also be comparison pictures of the ends of the light so you can see how the shield has changed. /N was added to the ends of all the part numbers to designate the new frosted shield. And we have a few lights of the older stock left which we will show after these pictures.

And with this new frosted lens, you do not see the individual diodes any more. They are covered better and the glow of the light is better.

These did not change. They will have a /N after the part number. But the TS/PC/79/WH/M and TS/PC/79/M/N are the same cable. Only the part number was upgraded. Old version lights can connect to new version. The connections were not changed. The only change was the shape of the frosted lens.

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