American Lighting

Specifying American Lighting as a System Rather Than a Single Part

Almost nothing in this brand works on its own. A lighting run here is normally four separate part numbers: the tape or flexible linear itself, the extrusion, or aluminum channel, it sits in, the driver that feeds it, and the control that dims or colors it. That is why 647 items produce far fewer finished installations than the count suggests, and why ordering one reel and expecting light is the most common mistake on this page. The largest single block of the brand, 194 items, files in tape, rope and ribbon, which is the right starting point for most jobs.

Which American Lighting Line You Need

Hybrid 3 Flexible Linear

Hybrid 3 is the line where the light source and its housing arrive together as a flexible run rather than as loose tape. It covers 34 items across 120V and 12V AC versions in single color, RGBW and a COB build, short for chip on board. Reels run to 150 feet and preassembled kits come in 3, 6, 12, 18, 30 and 45 foot lengths. The accessories are family specific, covering extrusion, mounting clips, saddle clips, end caps, linking cables, splice kits and connection kits. A Hybrid 3 reel bought alone has no feed and no termination, so budget the connection kit at the same time.

NeonFlex and Neon Profile Lines

The other 47 flexible linear items are neon style profiles, where the light source sits behind a diffusing jacket so the run reads as a continuous line rather than as dots. NeonFlex Pro covers Apex, Lateral Bend, Vertical Bend and Dual versions in 3000K and RGBW, with Apex offered as a custom cut length. Minuet is the smaller neon in 4x6 and 6x6 profiles at 2700K and 3000K in 1, 2 and 3 meter reels. Pool Rated Neon in 18mm, the Flexbrite half inch line, Channel Ray in 12V and 24V DC, and the Dart suspension kits complete the group.

Tape Light

Tape light runs to 135 items, split into Standard Tape Light, High Output in IP65 and IP68 versions, spec grade tunable tape rated 1800K to 6000K, plus the Vega and MicroLux reels. Around these sit the TruLink power feeds, connector blocks, jumpers, splice connectors, mounting clips, end caps and in-wall rated wire spools. Of these, 115 file in the tape light collection. Tape is cut and fed on site, so the accessory list grows with the number of runs rather than with total footage.

Premium and Economy Extrusion

At 138 items this is the largest family in the brand. American Lighting sells extrusion in two tiers. Premium Extrusion carries the PE prefix, in profiles including Universal, Universal Mini, Premium 45, Pro 45, Bevel 28, Double Flange, Step, Trace, Verge, GT and GTX. Economy Extrusion carries the EE prefix. The lighting accessories category holds 121 items from this brand. Profiles are supplied in 1 meter and 2 meter lengths and differ by mounting method, so a surface profile will not drop into a recessed detail.

Drivers and Power

The driver range runs to 56 items, covering the Micro Driver line in 12V DC and 24V DC, plus the Navi dimmer and driver combination units in 60W and 96W at 24V DC, including a tunable CCT version. The ATOM power strips run from 30 to 72 inches, and a DALI-2 certified DT8 driver arrives with a four channel decoder built in. Of those, 47 file in drivers and power supplies. A Navi unit replaces a separate driver and dimmer, which is the reason to pick it over a plain Micro Driver.

DMX and In-Line Controls

Controls run to 37 items, built mostly around DMX, a lighting control protocol that addresses fixtures by channel. The range covers DMX decoders including an IP67 version, SPI decoders, a 30 channel slider controller and an eight way splitter with RDM over RJ45. Above those sit four zone wall controls for tunable white and RGBW, and Spektrum+ touch screen panels in 5 inch and 10 inch. The Simple Select in-line controllers come in single color, tunable white, RGB, RGBW and RGBTW, the last meaning RGB plus tunable white. Twenty five of them file in sensors and controls.

Undercabinet Lighting

Undercabinet lighting covers three distinct bars across 53 items. The 5 Complete bar carries 5CCT selectable color in 10, 16, 24 and 32 inch in white and dark bronze. Complete 2 is fixed at 3000K in 8, 12, 18, 24, 32 and 40 inch in white. Courant Plus is 5CCT in 8 through 40 inch in black. Under-cabinet and under-counter lighting holds 56 items from this brand, and the hardwire boxes, in-line connectors, linking cables and power cords are specific to the bar they were built for.

Spektrum+ Smart Lighting

Spektrum+ is the connected RGB and tunable white line, covering 59 items. It spans hardscape lights in 6 and 12 inch, pathway lights, 6 inch discs, and 12V landscape fixtures sold singly and in three fixture kits. Regressed retrofit downlights in 4 and 6 inch with round or square trim sit alongside a Bluetooth extender, a 12V outdoor power supply, and the TwilightTrim channel system in basic, 45 degree, backer and wiring chase versions. Twelve of them reach outdoor lighting. The jumpers, T connectors and lead wires in this family are 12V outdoor parts and do not serve the indoor tape ranges.

Downlighting

Downlighting covers 18 items, starting with Avail Direct Select in 2, 4 and 6 inch at 5CCT, plus ChromaDMX 4 inch RGB and tunable white downlights in round and square trim. The rest are the Quick Disc and Ready Disc surface discs sold in 12 packs, the Rhyme line with its own rough-in plates in 2, 3 and 4 inch, and a Nieve battery backup. The recessed lighting and downlights category carries 23 of them. Rough-in plates are sized to the fixture family, so a Rhyme plate does not serve an Avail retrofit.

Corsa Flood and Graze, and Canvas

Corsa runs to 13 items. It covers 4 foot wall grazers in 3000K and RGBW alongside an array flood in RGBW, with their own power jumpers, power terminators, signal leads and signal terminators in 2 pin 0-10V and 3 pin DMX versions. A grazer is aimed along a surface to rake light across it, while a flood throws light out from the fixture. Separately, 9 Canvas items make up the Dynamic Pixel group, a backlit sheet in 12 by 24 inch in cool white and tunable white with its own rigid pin connectors, in-line wire connectors and bumper stand-offs.

Commercial Light String and Lamps

Light string covers 17 items. The commercial grade string comes in suspended and non-suspended builds at 24 inch spacing, in 48 foot, 100 foot and 330 foot lengths. Alongside those are E12 string at 12 inch spacing and E17 string at 15 inch spacing. Around them sit catenary cable kits in 60 and 110 foot, the catenary being the tensioned support wire a string hangs from, plus a 500 foot reel, cable locks and a tensioner tool. The festoon parts are the cable clips and globe lenses for an exposed socket string, and classic and deluxe shades finish the group. The 11 lamps that feed these strings file in bulbs, tubes and lamps, in C7, G30, G40, G50 and S14 shapes.

Puck Lights and Fora Exterior

Puck lighting covers 11 items: the MVP range at 5CCT in single and in-line versions, the Omni Slim single puck with black and white trims, and the jumper cables and slimline hardwire box that go with them. Fora adds 8 exterior security lights at 3CCT, offered with and without a motion sensor. Neither group shares accessories with the undercabinet bars, so a jumper from one family will not serve the other.

Reading an American Lighting Part Number

Three things are written into almost every number here, and reading them saves opening a dozen product pages. The first is pin count, which tells you the color capability. A 2 pin part is single color, 3 pin is tunable white, 4 pin is RGB, 5 pin is RGBW and 6 pin is RGBTW. That rule holds across the tape accessories, the Canvas connectors and the wire spools, so a part numbered TL-5JUMP is an RGBW jumper and a 6 pin wire spool carries the six conductors an RGBTW run needs.

The second is color temperature, written either as two digits or with a trailing K. A 27 is 2700K, 30 is 3000K and 40 is 4000K, so a Hybrid 3 kit numbered with 30 then 18 is the 3000K version in an 18 foot length. Where the fixture is selectable the number says so outright, with 3CCT and 5CCT appearing in place of a fixed value. The widest tunable tape in the range states its 1800K to 6000K span in the title rather than in the code.

The third is the physical build. Lengths appear as 1M and 2M on extrusion and as a plain foot or inch figure elsewhere, so a 24 inch undercabinet bar and a 24 inch jumper both carry 24 in the same position. Ingress protection appears as 65, 67 or 68 inside accessory numbers, which is how an IP65 jumper is separated from an IP68 one. Finish closes most numbers, with BK for black, WH for white, DB for dark bronze and SV for silver, and HD marks the heavy duty version of a tape connector.

Extrusion numbers add one more layer worth knowing. A code ending in BNDL1 is a single bundle, meaning the profile arrives with its lens, end caps and mounting clips as one part number rather than four. BNDL5 is the five pack of that same bundle, BNDLACC with a BG5 suffix is an accessory five pack, and BNDLLENSFR is a frosted lens five pack. Reading those four endings tells you whether you are ordering a complete channel or a bag of spares.

Where American Lighting Sits in the Lumera Catalog

Six categories carry the brand in real depth: tape rope and ribbon at 194 items, lighting accessories at 121, tape light at 115, indoor and residential lighting at 60, under-cabinet lighting at 56 and drivers at 47. Behind them sit controls at 25, recessed at 23, outdoor at 12 and bulbs at 11. Four landscape items complete the footprint. Together those are the routes worth starting a search from.

Two gaps are worth naming rather than leaving a buyer to hunt for. No American Lighting item currently appears in the linear lighting and tape light category, even though 81 flexible linear pieces and 138 extrusion profiles would belong there. The strip light and ribbon light categories are empty of this brand too.

The second gap is coverage. Only 479 of the 647 active items appear in the site wide Lighting collection at all, which leaves 168 reachable from this brand page and from the accessory categories rather than from the main lighting tree. Until those assignments are corrected, treat this page as the authoritative list for the brand.

What Pairs With What Across the Range

Pin count is the first compatibility rule and it is absolute. A single color run needs 2 pin feeds, jumpers, splices and end caps throughout, and an RGBTW run needs 6 pin parts throughout. Mixing them does not produce partial function. It produces a run that will not connect, and the pin count is stated in both the title and the part number on every accessory in the range.

Voltage is the second. The brand spans 120V, 12V AC, 12V DC and 24V DC, and the voltage is written into the family rather than chosen at install. Hybrid 3 exists in both a 120V and a 12V AC form with separate accessory sets, Channel Ray runs at 24V DC, and the Spektrum+ outdoor parts are 12V. Pick the driver from the run you specified rather than the other way around.

Accessory families do not cross. The 5 Complete hardwire box, in-line connector, linking cable and power cord serve 5 Complete bars only, and Complete 2 and Courant Plus each have their own. The same applies to extrusion, where a bundle accessory pack is sold per profile, so a GTX accessory pack does not fit a Universal Mini profile.

On light string, the lamp base is the pairing to check. The commercial strings here are built for E12, E17 and E26 bases at fixed spacings, and the Pro lamps are supplied in C7 with E12, G30 with E12, G40 with E17, G50 with E26 and S14 with E26. Match the base to the string before counting lamps, since the spacing figure tells you how many sockets a given length carries.

Ordering Notes on Bundles, Kits and Multi Packs

Several things on this page are sold as more than one piece and the listing price reflects the whole unit. Extrusion accessory packs and frosted lens packs are bags of five, the Quick Disc and Ready Disc downlights are 12 packs, and mounting clip bags come in quantities of 10, 15 and 22. Read the quantity in the title before comparing against a single piece price from another source.

Bundles and kits are the other place to slow down. An extrusion bundle is a complete channel assembly under one number, while the bare profile, the lens and the end caps also exist as separate numbers, so it is possible to order both and receive duplicates. Hybrid 3 kits likewise include the run and its connection parts, which the loose reel does not.

Tape and flexible linear are cut and terminated on site, so count accessories per run rather than per order. Two 10 foot runs need two power feeds and two sets of end caps, while one 20 foot run needs one of each. That arithmetic is where most short orders on this brand come from.

Specs to Confirm Before an American Lighting Order

Confirm pin count first, since it decides every accessory on the run and cannot be adapted later. Confirm voltage against the family, because 120V, 12V AC, 12V DC and 24V DC all appear here and the driver has to match the run rather than the circuit alone. Confirm whether the color temperature is fixed or selectable, as 3CCT and 5CCT items are set at install while a coded 27, 30 or 40 is fixed.

Confirm the ingress protection where the run is wet, damp or buried, since IP54, IP65, IP67 and IP68 all appear across tape, accessories and decoders. Confirm extrusion profile and mounting method against the ceiling or millwork detail before ordering a bundle. Confirm driver wattage against the total load of the run with headroom above it, and confirm finish, since black, white, dark bronze and silver versions carry separate numbers. Listings and certifications differ between these families, so read them on the individual product page before submittals.

Pin Count, CCT Code and Bundle Questions

What does the pin number in a part number tell me?

It tells you the color capability of the run. Two pin is single color, three pin is tunable white, four pin is RGB, five pin is RGBW and six pin is RGBTW. Every feed, jumper, splice and end cap on a run has to carry the same pin count as the tape or flexible linear itself, and the figure appears in both the title and the part number.

What is the difference between Hybrid 3 and tape light?

Hybrid 3 arrives as a flexible run with its housing already around the light source, while tape light is a bare flexible circuit that is normally mounted into a separate aluminum extrusion. Hybrid 3 suits a run where no channel is wanted or possible, and tape with extrusion suits a detail where the profile shape and lens matter. Their accessory sets are separate and do not interchange.

Does an extrusion bundle include the lens and end caps?

Yes. A part number ending in BNDL1 is a single bundle supplied as the profile together with its lens, end caps and mounting clips. BNDL5 is a five pack of that bundle. The bare profile, lenses and end caps also exist under their own numbers, so check which one you are ordering to avoid receiving the same parts twice.

How do I read 27, 30 and 40 in these numbers?

They are color temperature in hundreds of Kelvin, so 27 is 2700K, 30 is 3000K and 40 is 4000K. The same values sometimes appear with a trailing K instead. Where a fixture is adjustable the code carries 3CCT or 5CCT in that position instead of a fixed number, which means the color temperature is chosen at the fixture during install.

Can I use one driver for several runs?

Only if the total connected load sits below the driver rating with headroom, and only if every run on it shares the same voltage and control method. Add the wattage across all runs before selecting, and check whether the job needs a separate dimmer or whether a combination dimmer and driver unit covers it. Runs at different voltages always need separate drivers.