akin, from the LUMINES Design+ series, is a profile that ceases to exist once the work is finished. Its wide, thin wings — 74.1 mm across in total — are buried in plaster and skimmed flush with the ceiling. What remains visible is only the line of light: no frame, no exposed aluminium edge.
Two strips side by side
This is rare in the class: the akin channel takes two LED strips of up to 12 mm each (2 × 12 mm). That gives three real options — double the output over the same length of line, two colour temperatures switched separately (say 2700 K in the evening, 4000 K for work), or a tunable-white set driven by one pair of dimmable circuits. With a single strip in a channel this wide it is worth centring it, so that the line does not drift to one side.
A deeper strip means an evener line
Lumines designed akin around a deeper strip position than surface profiles allow. The greater the distance between the diodes and the cover, the less the individual points show — the line reads as continuous rather than beaded. The FRACTAL cover from the midi series supports the same effect and comes as OPAL, CLEAR and BLACK.
Dimensions
The body is 30.1 mm wide and 23.4 mm tall, the internal channel is 28.3 mm, and the span including the plaster-in wings is 74.1 mm. That last figure matters when the frame is being set out: the profile has to land between the ceiling channels, not on them.
The finish: anodised, not lacquered
This version is silver anodised. Anodising is an oxide layer grown into the aluminium itself, not a coating laid on top — it does not chip when the profile is cut or drilled, and a cut edge looks much like the rest. That matters on a profile which is cut to length on site.
What you need besides the profile
Chosen separately are the cover (midi: OPAL, CLEAR or BLACK), the end caps, the LED strip and the driver, which mounts outside the profile — in a suspended ceiling it needs a planned position with service access. akin profiles can be joined into longer runs; besides 1 m there are 2.02 m and 3.0 m versions.
Limits
akin is not a sealable profile — it works at IP20, in dry rooms only, and is not intended for walk-over or floor installation.
Specifications
- Manufacturer: Lumines Lighting
- Series: LUMINES Design+
- System: akin
- Item: 10-1414-10
- EAN: 5904405941140
- Type: aluminium recessed profile for plasterboard, to be plastered in
- Finish: silver anodised
- Length: 1 m (also available in 2.02 m and 3.0 m)
- Overall width including wings: 74.1 mm
- Body width: 30.1 mm
- Height: 23.4 mm
- Channel width: 28.3 mm
- Maximum LED strip width: 2 × 12 mm
- Shape: rectangular
- Beam direction: perpendicular to the surface
- Sections can be joined: yes
- Driver location: outside the profile
- Protection rating: IP20 (not sealable)
- Material: aluminium
- Cover, end caps, strip and driver: not included
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