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Registered Member #1157
Joined: Thu Dec 06 2007, 12:11PM
Location: Houston, TX
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Was looking at a way to dress up my Minibrute with some internal LED's in the enclosure, when I saw this stuff. Seems it needs high voltage at a high frequency to operate. This got me to thinking. . . Would I even need to hook up drive electronics to get it to work? Might it not even just light up when the Coil operates as neon lights will?
Seems I will purchase some, because I found it cheap at the Goldmine. If it works, then what a cool way to illuminate the Coil, if not, I bet it would look cool with Lego's. Either way, at that price I can't resist.
Registered Member #56
Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:02AM
Location: Southern Califorina, USA
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You will not be able to get the stuff to light up by just wrapping the coil with it, because it will draw too much current. A 1ft piece of that stuf will draw the better portion of a milliamp at 25khz. You might be able to get it to do domething by adding a little antenna to the inner conductor and grounding the core, but I think it would be a heck of a lot easier to just hook it up to a real driver.
Registered Member #1157
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I wasn't going to wrap it around the coil, I was actually Going to illuminate the Control Enclosure. Instead of gray PVC, I used opaque cutting boards for the top cover and primary supports. I was going to illuminate the enclosure from inside to give it an nice warm glow, and I've experimented with LED's and they do a pretty good job of it. But the EL wire seems like it might be brighter and I figure as long as I don' t have a complete circle, it's shouldn't screw anything up. I will get some drive electronics for it because I would like to also make some Lego sculptures and to illuminate some Warhammer 40K models I have, but like I said, I will experiment with it.
I was just wondering if anyone has tried to use it near an operating coil before to see if it would light up without control electronics.
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I know Derek Woodroffe used it around the base of his coil, but I think he needed an inverter to make it glow. I don't know how often he checks the forum, you could try sending him a mail.
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Joined: Thu Dec 06 2007, 12:11PM
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Anders M. wrote ...
I know Derek Woodroffe used it around the base of his coil, but I think he needed an inverter to make it glow. I don't know how often he checks the forum, you could try sending him a mail.
Did a search in the members list and can't seem to find a Derek Woodroffe.
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