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Title: El Wire
Post by: Tec_ on March 26, 2008, 06:20:05 AM
no i dont have anything new to show yet. (something is in the works) i just want to know has any one been working with my favorite form of lighting recently? if so lets see, im in the mood for some EL!
Title: Re: El Wire
Post by: ProperBritish on March 26, 2008, 08:23:29 AM
 i want to buy some EL, but its expensive in comparison to LEDs. might do it after trigger mod
Title: Re: El Wire
Post by: Tec_ on March 26, 2008, 08:39:24 AM
its not that expensive at about .75 to 2.00 a foot. the inverters can be kinda price but there not to bad
Title: Re: El Wire
Post by: budgray19 on March 26, 2008, 01:29:09 PM
id do it but i have no id3ea where to get the inverter ad what to get
lol
talk to me on msn when ur on
Title: Re: El Wire
Post by: ProperBritish on March 27, 2008, 02:58:55 AM
i should be doing trigger mod soon, phen's power board has arrived and my 1206 LEDs have too. I have 10 Ohm resistors too  :hifive:
Title: Re: El Wire
Post by: Tec_ on March 27, 2008, 07:21:48 AM
i should be doing trigger mod soon, phen's power board has arrived and my 1206 LEDs have too. I have 10 Ohm resistors too  :hifive:

huh? EL Trigger?
Title: Re: El Wire
Post by: ProperBritish on March 27, 2008, 08:25:35 AM
i was elaborating on my trigger mod, sorry for the confusion.
Title: Re: El Wire
Post by: phenomenal on March 27, 2008, 10:59:04 AM
many reasons why i havent, one, because i suck at modding, two, not sure where to get it from and thrid, dunno how it works

but if i were to fix all of the problems, then, yeah ill probaly do it
Title: Re: El Wire
Post by: GhoSt on March 27, 2008, 09:27:31 PM
i got a new psp and am so keen for sum el-wire action but i have a few problems
    -dont know where to pick up a invertor small enough
    -does it require the removale of UMD?
    -what did you use to sucure it inside the case?
Title: Re: El Wire
Post by: Tec_ on March 27, 2008, 10:10:27 PM
all of your EL can be bought at http://www.coolight.com/ (http://www.coolight.com/) they also carry the small inverter i used for my mod.

as for how it works
simple: answer it works like a capacitor.
in depth: one wire is covered with a phosphorescent material a another wire is run on the out side of it and it is all incased in a plastic sheath. when a high frequency AC current is passed over it the phosphor lights up. the high frequency AC current comes form the inverter. a DC current is fed in to it and a high freq. AC current comes out.

no it dose not require the removal of the UMD drive

and i used hot glue to affix it in my case.
Title: Re: El Wire
Post by: ProperBritish on March 28, 2008, 10:15:07 AM
its not really any different, AFAIK, apart from that you hook up an inverter to some wire.
Title: Re: El Wire
Post by: Tec_ on March 28, 2008, 10:19:08 AM
florescent lights function in much the same way, but insted of a solid (EL) the light up a gas
Title: Re: El Wire
Post by: ProperBritish on March 28, 2008, 10:22:09 AM
i wonder if i could find cold cathodes small enough?  :boxed:
Title: Re: El Wire
Post by: Tec_ on March 28, 2008, 11:14:21 AM
for a psp? no for a phat PS2 yes
Title: Re: El Wire
Post by: ProperBritish on March 28, 2008, 11:43:10 AM
hmmmm... imma research this :P
Title: Re: El Wire
Post by: GhoSt on March 29, 2008, 02:02:43 PM
so if i hook up some coollight red angel hair el wire to one of these invertors http://www.coolight.com/product-p/isw-3475.htm (http://www.coolight.com/product-p/isw-3475.htm) where on the mobo will i solder to if im already using powerboard for leds. Do i mount it under wifi board?
Title: Re: El Wire
Post by: ProperBritish on March 29, 2008, 03:41:15 PM
mount the wire where you want  :victory:
Title: Re: El Wire
Post by: GhoSt on March 29, 2008, 06:18:02 PM
mount the wire where you want  :victory:

no but where to mount the invertor?
Title: Re: El Wire
Post by: Tec_ on March 29, 2008, 08:06:03 PM
its not going to happen with that inverter, its huge
you would want this one
http://www.coolight.com/product-p/cl-imc-1.5ft.htm (http://www.coolight.com/product-p/cl-imc-1.5ft.htm)


as for hooking it up,

http://www.vibelights.com/lehowtosoelw.html (http://www.vibelights.com/lehowtosoelw.html)
Title: Re: El Wire
Post by: GhoSt on March 29, 2008, 09:56:25 PM
its not going to happen with that inverter, its huge
you would want this one
http://www.coolight.com/product-p/cl-imc-1.5ft.htm (http://www.coolight.com/product-p/cl-imc-1.5ft.htm)


as for hooking it up,

http://www.vibelights.com/lehowtosoelw.html (http://www.vibelights.com/lehowtosoelw.html)

sweet ok im set, so this will work with the angel wire gud. so all i need to do is hook this up to the psp no resistor or nefing and it will work?
Title: Re: El Wire
Post by: Eryq on March 30, 2008, 11:16:51 AM
all of your EL can be bought at http://www.coolight.com/ (http://www.coolight.com/) they also carry the small inverter i used for my mod.

I carry the driver too, at the suggestion of someone here at Acidmods:

http://www.neonstring.com/cart/product_info.php?products_id=133&osCsid=51264bbba66a3a1bbe3fdbd643cdffec (http://www.neonstring.com/cart/product_info.php?products_id=133&osCsid=51264bbba66a3a1bbe3fdbd643cdffec)

I charge more for it, but if you factor the shipping...

Also, if anyone needs an instructional on soldering EL wire, I did an illustrated how-to here:

http://www.neonstring.com/How_to_solder_EL_Wire/How_to_Solder_EL_Wire.html (http://www.neonstring.com/How_to_solder_EL_Wire/How_to_Solder_EL_Wire.html)

Eric

Title: Re: El Wire
Post by: Tec_ on March 30, 2008, 11:24:22 AM
I carry the driver too, at the suggestion of someone here at Acidmods:

http://www.neonstring.com/cart/product_info.php?products_id=133&osCsid=51264bbba66a3a1bbe3fdbd643cdffec (http://www.neonstring.com/cart/product_info.php?products_id=133&osCsid=51264bbba66a3a1bbe3fdbd643cdffec)

I charge more for it, but if you factor the shipping...

Also, if anyone needs an instructional on soldering EL wire, I did an illustrated how-to here:

http://www.neonstring.com/How_to_solder_EL_Wire/How_to_Solder_EL_Wire.html (http://www.neonstring.com/How_to_solder_EL_Wire/How_to_Solder_EL_Wire.html)

Eric

i haven't bought any thing off of his site, but i did buy a ton of his stuff off of cyber, and i havent had any issues with it. it all functions verry well.

plus his smallest EL wire is thiner than the stuff from coolight
Title: Re: El Wire
Post by: GhoSt on March 30, 2008, 11:04:07 PM
i haven't bought any thing off of his site, but i did buy a ton of his stuff off of cyber, and i havent had any issues with it. it all functions verry well.

plus his smallest EL wire is thiner than the stuff from coolight

howd u get it from cyber :dntknw:. i was thinking u know wat would be cool sound reactive el wire dont know if this would work tho.
Title: Re: El Wire
Post by: Tec_ on March 31, 2008, 05:20:43 AM
howd u get it from cyber :dntknw:. i was thinking u know wat would be cool sound reactive el wire dont know if this would work tho.

QUIET!!! that may or may not be what im working on. but i bought my wire from cyber when he was having the AM garage sail
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