Under-cabinet lights - LED or Fluorescent?

[Blitherer]

What kind of lighting is suitable these days for under kitchen cabinets bearing in mind I want something very bright, not pathetic lighting you sometimes see installed in new kitchens?

Should I go for LED or is fluorescent still the best answer?

T4 Cabinet lights look to be the cheapest solution so is there any advantage in LEDs?

Thanks

 

[Click-Sure]

Robus T4 linkable under cabinet lights for me, any day of the week, i suggest robus because of build quality and warm (2700K) colour of the light.

 

[Steve]

LEDs still dont cut it IMO. Especially the cheap SMDs in those strips.

Go with T4/T5 tubes for now. You mght find some non-linkable ones that are cheaper and more flexible in their arrangement.

 

[Blitherer]

Thanks Steve and Click Sure.

It does seem that there are some extremely bright LEDs around, such as the Seoul P7 which seems to emit about 900 lumens at 10 Watts.

However, the cheapest is £9 plus postage for the raw, naked LED. It would need heatsinking and a power supply. (e.g. http://tinyurl.com/SSCP7ebay1 )

I guess the problem with something like this is the light is not very diffuse.

So I'll probably stick to fluorescent for the time being.

Cheers

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Slim lights like these, behind a pelmet, will be absolutely fine.

 

[sergeantash]

My partner's family have LED strip lights in their bathroom and kitchen - they're very harshly coloured compared to the lighting within the rest of the room and in my opinion look a bit silly -

personally I would go for a strip light as suggested above, much more practical in terms of providing a usable/complimentary light.