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Lighted Control Panel Overlay Surface
whynotpizza:
Ok, bunch of questions lately on lighting. :)
Anyone know what would workk best to try and get the lightning bolt in my control panel overlay to "light-up" in the dark?
http://www.mamemarquees.com/blue-lightning-control-panel-from-p-194.html
Should I paint the surface with luminescent paint? Use a black-light?
Any way to get light to be trapped (and light-up the bolts) between the overlay surface and the lexan which will be placed on top?
Any ideas are welcome. :)
David
Missile:
My car has a tiny little LED on the rearview mirror to light up the shifter area. I'm thinking about putting a couple of those hidden by the bottom of my overhead marquee on the build I'm working on to accomplish a similar effect. My car doesn't require more than a 1/4" hole for its shifter light.
Just a thought.
fixedpigs:
--- Quote from: Missile on November 22, 2008, 01:11:35 am ---My car has a tiny little LED on the rearview mirror to light up the shifter area.
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odd...does your car have a light to illuminate the clutch/brake/& gas pedals too...?
who looks at the shifter to shift...?
:dizzy:
Ginsu Victim:
My 08 Honda CR-V has the same blue light thingy.
erictrumpet:
David, you may have answered your own question - if you got some special white paint from here http://www.blacklight.com you could paint it on the lightning bolt with a tiny little pinstriping brush, and in normal light it would appear normal but under a blacklight it would glow like frickin crazy! I've thought about putting a blacklight in the speaker areas of my cab (in the underside of the marquee overhang) - at that website, they also have many different blacklight bulb types, so I thought of making a recessed "spot" light blacklight to shine from above and bathe the cp in spooky glowiness. :)
Eric.