Swapping florescent tube for LED strip

IM

We've got an alcove in our living room - arch above fire place with the ceiling slightly lower than main part of the room - which is currently lit by a florescent tube.

I'd like to have something a bit more controllable and ambient, and was thinking of a dimmable LED strip option - something like this http://www.ledhut.co.uk/led-strip-lights/plug-and-play-non-waterproof-rgb-led-colour-changing-strip-kit-3-metre-roll.html

This appears to be something you have to plug in, rather than controllable from the wall switch.

Could I just swap out the fluorescent tube, and use the existing wiring - or do I need to be looking for an alternative?

flashg67

I don't see why you couldn't cut off the plug andjoin it (properly of course) into the current wiring.

I did similar with an under-unit LED light in my kitchen that came with a plug - snipped it off and hard-wired it into the existing junction box.

Ectophile

flashg67 wrote: »

I don't see why you couldn't cut off the plug andjoin it (properly of course) into the current wiring.

I did similar with an under-unit LED light in my kitchen that came with a plug - snipped it off and hard-wired it into the existing junction box.

Just make sure you get a kit where the transformer and the plug are separate - not a plug-in transformer.