Exterior lights in soffit

You mean like soffit lighting? Light shining down on the windows?

I used 4” direct mount LED lights. They are like a really thin can light with a separate electrical box. I got them from Home Depot with a selectable color temperature.

Halo 4” Direct Mount LED

If you look online, you can normally find "contractor's packs" that have large quantities. HD and Lowes will also offer bulk pricing on alot of items like this. Just make sure the lights are rated for exterior use

Most people are just putting LED disc lights that mount to standard boxes. Most commonly people use 4" in eves but that is bc 4" was the previous common size can. 6" discs should fit fine. 6" cans were tough prior to disc lights becoming popular because the size was difficult to mess with in the tight space with the rake of the roof coming down.

Have you ever put lights on an angled soffit? Like one on each side of a window?

Just built and had 28 installed. I added a few to some dark spots and ran into that issue. What you could do is drill your hole from underneath and use a fish tape and stick it all the way in and have someone attach the romex to it from a more accessible location in the attic. It would cost you some romex because you’d have big loops but would be well worth the savings in hassle.

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that's going to look terrible

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Yeah, somewhere between 3000-4000K is what people typically use. Having 5000K at night will make your house look blue

I would advise buying anything commercial electric. That is Home Depot's house brand, and they are known to frequently discontinue styles, and you could have problems if needing to replace down the road.

The halo would be a much more preferable option IMO.

can probably also get better pricing from your local supply house than from the box stores.

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commercial electric

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Thanks for the heads up, I’m a commercial electrician by trade and we use them a lot in building construction but that’s mainly because of the price I’m sure, but 100% agree that the Halo brand name is top notch

And Alleman not sure of any websites maybe someone else can chime in
But as for why use 110vac simply because of the ease of use of a breaker and the elimination of failure of a low voltage power supply if needed

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One last question, any preference/benefit of 110V over low voltage (or vice versa)?

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for your needs stick with the line voltage, don't need to worry about low voltage with what you are doing