Profile F is a 1 metre aluminium extrusion with a white lacquered finish. In cross section it has a flat mounting flange along one edge and the channel for the LED strip right beside it. The manufacturer intends it for decorative lighting in furniture and interior trim, and the flange lets it double as a structural part — holding a glass shelf, for instance.
Size and the strip it takes
The cross section is 16.6 mm wide and 10.2 mm high; the channel alone is 13.5 mm wide and 7.3 mm deep, and the flange is 2.5 mm thick. The channel takes an LED strip up to 12 mm wide — an ordinary single-row strip. A wider double-row strip will not go in.
The piece is exactly 1000 mm. The manufacturer states that lengths of profile F cannot be joined into one run, so a longer line of light has to be planned from a single piece — the family also comes in 2020 mm and 3000 mm, and to order up to 6 m.
How it is fitted
The profile is surface mounted: it goes onto a finished face with no recess to rout out. The manufacturer names three fixing methods — a screw through the flange, double-sided tape, and a hinge. Light leaves perpendicular to the base of the channel, so the direction of the light is set by how the profile itself is laid.
In cross section the channel walls are plain, with no groove for a cover — the strip stays visible and its individual diodes are not blurred by a frosted lens. The manufacturer provides no sealing for this profile and rates it IP20, so the mounting place has to be dry; it is not rated to be driven over either.
What you buy separately
The profile is sold on its own — neither the LED strip nor a power supply is included. There is no room for a driver inside it: the manufacturer places the driver outside the profile, so space for it has to be planned in the furniture or next to it.
Besides the white lacquered version, profile F also comes silver anodised and raw. Aluminium draws heat away from the strip, so the strip runs cooler than it would stuck straight onto a furniture board.
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