[sdiy] electro-luminiscent foil

[Amos]

you could convert your own Voyager to Electric Blue! Or put neon
backlighting on any synth control panel, for that matter... granted it would
mean cutting the EL sheet to shape, printing an opaque overlay with
transparent letters/markings for the controls, and a great deal of general
tinkering about.... but that's practically an invitation to some of you lot.
:-)

I find that stuff runs really nicely on ~90V AC. Someone told me you can
pulse the AC, maybe even use non-sinusoidal (PWM) current for better
efficiency in driving this stuff. There might be datasheets around, but
perhaps not for free online since it's so new.

Link: http://www.elam.co.il/
These guys are, like, Electroluminescent Incorporated... they own a lot of
the patents and might be willing to mail documentation and tech specs to an
engineer who works (or pretends to work) in industrial design/R&D...

On 9/27/05, Senso <senso at dds.nl> wrote:
>
> >On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 10:52:43PM +0200, Senso wrote:
> >> don't know if everyone is aware of this stuff. it seems to beg for
> >> some flashy, creative uses:
> >>
> >>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/EL-Neon-Foil-DIY-Kit-Blue-Electroluminescent_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ43952QQitemZ7972117530QQrdZ1
> >>
> >
> >Looks to me like parts to fix the backlight in my TG77. Is the standard
> >yamaha backlight blue-ish or white-ish?
> >( its never worked for me so I dont know what it looks like...
>
> Greenish.
> Except when it was victim of the blue-led-mod rage. :-(
>
> I noticed the same guy sells EL wires as well. Hey cooool, dude!
>
> Senso
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