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Best thing to use for a Marquee light in the UK?
ark_ader:
They are very bright, but I guess you can double up to even the light, still cheap and very bright without the heat. There are other sizes.
HairyDVD:
You can pick up cold cathode tubes for pc modders quite cheap on ebay ( I bought a kit with 2 tubes in not so long ago which came with a switch to turn them on/off ) - they seemed adequate to light a marquee and if you want you could get different colours for different effects...
waveryder:
I went the cold cathode route. Buy them from ebuyer though, found that most of the ones you see on ebay are the same make. Payed £3 for 4 12" cold cathode tubes and inverters from there.
Barry Barcrest:
I use the cold cathodes to back light my juke, they are very bright and easy to set up running off the PC Power supply.
david656:
--- Quote from: ark_ader on January 21, 2008, 10:05:28 pm ---Nip over to Maplin and get a 6" Cold Cathode tube for £5.99 and then hook it up to a spare molex in your PC.
Nice and bright and won't break the bank.
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NO NO NO ! i bought one and had it plugged into my pc and was doing other things and thought ' whats that smell' ! the transformer was on fire ! NO WAY !! im using a AC mains plug in and go display cabinet light thing taht i bought at a local DIY store