Re: TI-H: EL Panel
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Re: TI-H: EL Panel
How many are you selling? Could I get a discount for large quantities? How
do you seal them from condensation? Do you check for glass shard after
cutting? What color? How do you attatch leads? I am interested, if you
can answer these simple questions.
-Robert Brack
reb@netride.com
-----Original Message-----
From: David Knaack <dknaack@easen.net>
To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Thursday, February 26, 1998 8:37 AM
Subject: Re: TI-H: EL Panel
>
>>> You're kidding?! There must be cheaper EL panels than that!
>>
>>Yeah.. The LimeLight is a nightlight I found at a Wal-Mart near here. The
>>EL panel is slightly smaller than the viewable area of the calc, but I
>
>
>What are the exact dimensions of that nightlight panel?
>
>ELTech sells a prototyping kit (complete with a suitable inverter) that
>can be cut with a knife for 75$ The sheet can be cut into 7 light panels,
>yielding a price of about 11 dollars each. Of course, this only comes
>with one inverter, additional inverters are about 10 bux, so, on the
>average,
>$20 each. Of course, you still have to spend 135 bux for the kit and 6
>extra
>inverters.... Oh, and the 7 TI-85 sized panels leave an extra 11 square
>inches
>of EL panel just to play with (if you can figure out how to power them
>without leads).
>
>The cut edges of the panels are live, so they would probably need to be
>taped up so you dont fry the calculator.
>
>No one responded last time I asked, so I'll ask again, would anyone
>be interested in buying backlight kits for 25 bux?
>
>DK
>
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