These full-color, tunable white fixtures mount below your cupboards and will be hardwired or plugged in to light up your counter tops. Cync lights assist Matter and can be utilized with Amazon Alexa, Google House, Apple House and Samsung SmartThings to attain sensible dwelling integration. I first noticed them at CES 2023 and was excited that this may lastly present an ideal resolution to the sensible kitchen lighting drawback.
For those who’ve ever transformed a kitchen, you have additionally seemingly been stymied by the dearth of a strategy to hardwire sensible lighting below the cupboards. This occurred to me a number of years in the past after I needed to brighten up my kitchen counter tops by inserting sensible, tunable white mild that I may additionally dim below the cupboards.
There isn’t any hard-wired choice for sensible LED lights that work below cupboards. The one choices I’ve discovered are to attach commonplace LED strips to sensible switches, which implies no coloration adjustments or dimming, however I can management them remotely on a schedule, or use plug-in sensible strips to get what I need Impact.
Then, at CES earlier this 12 months, I noticed the Cync under-cabinet lights put in and dealing in a mock kitchen, they usually seemed spectacular. They’ve a large, slim profile and are nearly invisible below cupboards from most angles, but emit extra mild than commonplace strip lights. They’re additionally subtle, which implies the LEDs will not mirror harsh pinpricks of sunshine off your counter tops. I’ve a number of samples that I plan to check and can have a full evaluation coming quickly.
Coloured and tunable white lights make lots of sense in a kitchen atmosphere. It offers activity lighting whereas cooking or cleansing, and will be modified to a dimmable color-changing mild while you desire a extra ambient, colourful glow at time for supper or whereas enjoyable.
Cync’s new lights provide all of those options and work with the Cync app powered by the Savant sensible dwelling system. This lets you arrange lights on a schedule and add them to the scene. They’re additionally appropriate with sensible dwelling platforms for voice management and different options, and have bodily buttons for direct management.
Cync sensible under-cabinet lights require 120V AC energy and function through 2.4GHz Wi-Fi. They arrive in 12-inch ($59.99), 18-inch ($64.99), and 24-inch ($69.99) side-lit strips and 3-inch diameter puck lights ($84.99). For bigger areas, you possibly can join as much as 10 lights and energy them from a single energy supply.
