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Fixing the shadow issue on marquees. - Your suggestions and successes

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Endaar:
As I mentioned in your project thread, I went with a few extra LEDs where I needed them. Admittedly the resulting light dispersion is not 100% even, although the camera makes it look much worse than it is. In any event, when I started looking at adding some white LEDs, I decided having a few bright points of light (I ended up using red and blue LEDs instead of white) worked nicely with my artwork.

EDIT: Looking at your pictures again, I don't see any way you're going to avoid bright spots without changing out the wood for a metal bracket. There is so little clearance between the support and the marquee that your options are pretty limited, much more so than mine were.

Endaar

gryhnd:
Some thin (1/2 or less) aluminum L to frame the marquee.

Seal the back of the marquee space as well with a board, then paint the entire interior of that area bright white (perhaps for your setup, also mount the lights to that rather than hang them off the bar). It will help to reflect the light around within the space and even out the glow.

MikeyMerse:
Lining the inside with tinfoil will also help disperse the light evenly.

SephYuyX:
The reason I didnt want to replace the furring the L brackets, or chip away at them is because everything is sort of in its final spot now, and having to redo things would be bleh.. but it looks like that may be the only option :/

Im going to try and toy around with the lights a bit tonight, maybe ill get lucky some how.

opt2not:

--- Quote from: Ginsu Victim on August 06, 2010, 12:27:13 pm ---
--- Quote from: DashRendar on August 06, 2010, 12:14:09 pm ---Or, you could use L brackets instead of wood brackets.

--- End quote ---

This.

I pulled the wood of mine and used L brackets and have zero lighting issues.

--- End quote ---

+1
L-brackets are an arcade hobbyist's friend.

Don't be too worried about re-doing stuff... sometimes taking one step back results in two steps forward.

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