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Permalink Reply by jabes on November 20, 2012 at 2:06am

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Permalink Reply by Dan Sleep on November 20, 2012 at 5:24am

I know I'm not...

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Permalink Reply by Dan Sleep on November 20, 2012 at 5:25am

Yea, I didn't expect too much, I was just kind of hoping that we might have someone on the Nation who knew this kind of stuff.

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Permalink Reply by Gdawg on November 20, 2012 at 5:29am

Dan,
My son is an electrical engineer. He is out of town but will be back tomorrow. I will see if he can help out.

Jim "Gdawg" Hancock

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Permalink Reply by Dan Sleep on November 20, 2012 at 5:31am

Thanks Jim, that would be awesome!!

I don't necessarily need/want to make something from scratch. If there was some existing circuit board out there that I could modify, that would work too. I had actually been looking around at the different Christmas tree lights to see if there was something I could use.

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Permalink Reply by David L. on November 20, 2012 at 6:45am

Hi Dan,

There are loads of LED light kits available (never used these particular kits so cannot say how good they are)
For example http://store.qkits.com/category.cfm/led a google search will give you many hits if you put in electronics LED lights kit (if you miss out the "electronics" you will get a heap of home lighting pages).
You can get sound to light effects as a stick on pad that runs on AAA batteries or fancy sound to light stickers meant to plug in a car lighter socket which I assume could be hacked. If this is of interest I can add some links. There is an old discussion http://www.cigarboxnation.com/forum/topics/led-pickup-light about sound to light LEDs.
There are some cheap light effects on eBay like this http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1M-Flexible-Neon-Light-Glow-EL-Wire-Rope-...
Please note I have only used an EL t shirt sound to light sticker but that is good for the price. I don't know how good or bad the other products are.

Regards,
David

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Permalink Reply by David L. on November 20, 2012 at 7:07am

I just checked out the link I wanted -the eBay search is for "EL panel" some examples
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/EL-Panel-T-Shirt-Tag-/271087936259?pt=LH_...
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Generation-beautiful-Music-Voice-acti...
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/EL-Panel-Electroluminescent-Panel-Neon-Co...

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Permalink Reply by Dan Sleep on November 20, 2012 at 7:46am

Thanks David, I will give them a look when I get a second.

The hard part was finding one that would blink for X number of seconds, then return to solid on mode.

So, the lights are on solid. When a switch is triggered, the lights flash for 4 seconds, then go back to solid again.

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Permalink Reply by FatBoy CooKen on November 20, 2012 at 6:25am

Maybe something like they use on vehicles...LED strobe controller....???

link

sorta like this, though 12v

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Permalink Reply by Dan Sleep on November 20, 2012 at 1:11pm

Thanks David and Fatboy, that helped a lot!!!

I think the only thing I need to sort out is how to activate the flasher circuit for X number of seconds.

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Permalink Reply by David L. on November 20, 2012 at 11:11pm

Make yourself one of these Dan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_E67xbfQak&feature=related

Then at your next CBG gig add this kind of light show :O)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=-Rot9uaVO8s&feature=fvwp

Or at home instead of watching TV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYpTyfLmy5U&feature=related

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Permalink Reply by Naz Nomad on November 21, 2012 at 1:23pm

Hang on, I got this ....

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