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« 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!

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Re: El Wire
« Reply #1 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


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Re: El Wire
« Reply #2 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

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Re: El Wire
« Reply #3 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
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Re: El Wire
« Reply #4 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:


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Re: El Wire
« Reply #5 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?

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Re: El Wire
« Reply #6 on: March 27, 2008, 08:25:35 AM »
i was elaborating on my trigger mod, sorry for the confusion.


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Re: El Wire
« Reply #7 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

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Re: El Wire
« Reply #8 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?
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Re: El Wire
« Reply #9 on: March 27, 2008, 10:10:27 PM »
all of your EL can be bought at 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.

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Re: El Wire
« Reply #10 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.


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Re: El Wire
« Reply #11 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

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Re: El Wire
« Reply #12 on: March 28, 2008, 10:22:09 AM »
i wonder if i could find cold cathodes small enough?  :boxed:


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Re: El Wire
« Reply #13 on: March 28, 2008, 11:14:21 AM »
for a psp? no for a phat PS2 yes

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Re: El Wire
« Reply #14 on: March 28, 2008, 11:43:10 AM »
hmmmm... imma research this :P


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Re: El Wire
« Reply #15 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 where on the mobo will i solder to if im already using powerboard for leds. Do i mount it under wifi board?
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Re: El Wire
« Reply #16 on: March 29, 2008, 03:41:15 PM »
mount the wire where you want  :victory:


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Re: El Wire
« Reply #17 on: March 29, 2008, 06:18:02 PM »
mount the wire where you want  :victory:

no but where to mount the invertor?
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Re: El Wire
« Reply #18 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


as for hooking it up,

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

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Re: El Wire
« Reply #19 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


as for hooking it up,

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?
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Re: El Wire
« Reply #20 on: March 30, 2008, 11:16:51 AM »
all of your EL can be bought at 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

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

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Re: El Wire
« Reply #21 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

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

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
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Re: El Wire
« Reply #22 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.
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Re: El Wire
« Reply #23 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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