LED lit cabinets

Hey folks. I am building some cabinets and I would like to put some led strip lighting on the inside to light them up. Seems easy enough, but I want to overcomplicate it a bit.

Each cabinet will have two doors, and there will be three cabinets - 6 doors total. I would like the lights to turn on when a door opens, turn off when the door closes, and only the lights associated with that door should turn on and off.

I was thinking I would drive it with something like this
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078RTV41...lja1JlZGlyZWN0JmRvTm90TG9nQ2xpY2s9dHJ1ZQ&th=1

Sorry for the long link.

If that power supply would be okay to be left on 100% of the time then this would be pretty easy, but I don't think that would be a good idea.

I'm thinking each door will need two switches; one switch to power the driver, and the other switch to turn the lights on.

I might consider a dimmer, but other than that I'm trying really hard to avoid any manual switches. I want it all to be controlled by opening and closing the doors.

Truth is, I really don't know how to go about this. I'm hoping someone can visualize what I'm trying to do and tell me what to do.

This is going in a new room in my basement and I will tie it straight in to the main power line. It won't be plugged in to an outlet.

Any help here would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

 

Thanks for the replies. My thought has been to use magnetic/door switches. However my question is more along the lines of how do I wire it all up. If I'm not mistaken I'll need the main power hooked straight to a switch before it hits the driver and then another switch on the feed line to the lights. But can I put a switch right on the main power like that? And how do I rig it all up so that each of the main power switches work with each other. For instance, I don't want it to work like a three way switch - in which case if one door was open the lights would turn off when I opened another. The light at one door would need to power the driver, and when the second door opens it would act like it is powering the driver, but wouldn't really do anything since the first door was opened. But if the first door closed and the second door remained open then the lights would still stay on.

I guess if I'm using my terminology correctly, the three main power switches would need to be wired in parallel. When all switches are open then there is no power getting through, but when any combination of them are closed we get power to the led driver.

That brings me back to the question of being able to put those switches (magnetic, pressure, or otherwise) right on the romex coming from the wall. Can I do that?

 

I am not opposed to getting separate drivers for each cabinet, but I'm not sure I need to. If I do one switch per door then and wire each cabinet in parallel then I believe I would end up with the lights turning on on both sides of the cabinet instead of just the side the door is opened on.

I intend to mount the driver on top of the cabinet where it will be ventilated and easy to access.

You'll have to excuse my poor electronics knowledge and my poor drawing skills. I have attached a schematic which I believe illustrates my intended goal. If this doesn't make sense, isn't possible, is a terrible idea, etc, please let me know. My electronics experience is limited to what I learned in a years worth of college physics and what I pick up on the internet here and there.

The source on the drawing is the romex wire coming from the wall. I'm not sure what rating the fuse should have, or the rating the switches after the fuse should have. Feel free to let me know what you think.

https://imgur.com/a/Vq05JHj

 

Thanks for doing that. I wasn't sure what the issue was there.

It would certainly be easier to just switch the outputs. However, my concern is having the driver constantly powered. Would that not be bad to have a constant input on the power that never turns off? Would the driver burn out or something?

 

Yeah I'm trying to keep them on separate power so they turn on and off independently.