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Author Topic: Does anyone know where to get illuminated t-molding?  (Read 28716 times)

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Re: Does anyone know where to get illuminated t-molding?
« Reply #80 on: September 20, 2016, 04:38:24 pm »
But I have a steel t-square for drywall & a nice razor knife and and thinking I can trim 1/16 off each side so it will fit nicely.
When I have time.

depending on how the EL panel is constructed, usually you have 2 conductive layers with the luminescent material sandwiched between them. if you cut the panel (strip) you chance ruining the strip.

if the EL panel is conducted from either sides of the material it might work if you don't break the conductive stip down the side.

look into "EL wire". this may fit your moulding better.

The two layers look like they are laminated together and the lamination is a few mm's wider on one side.
I think I can trim it without having the whole thing fall apart.
but maybe i'll grab some EL-WIRE also since it's cheap.
I just wasn't sure if it would illuminate the moulding evenly like the tape.
I don't want a bright line down the middle.

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Re: Does anyone know where to get illuminated t-molding?
« Reply #81 on: September 22, 2016, 11:52:41 am »
So, short story long, high frequencies, like those coming from EL inverters, will be heard by some who have good hearing, especially the younger folks.  Older ones, maybe not so much.




I used to have this problem in college.  Computer Science major spending all day in labs with 20" or larger CRTs all over the place.  The squealing of those monitors would give me nasty headaches and I'd have to go sleep them off.  At one point I became so sensitive to it my roomate would turn his 19" monitor off and on in a separate room and ask me what state it was in.  I could call it correctly nearly every time.


This is one of the primary reasons I don't  have any nostalgia for raster CRTs.  I'm glad they are gone.