Re: TI-H: EL Backlighting (again)
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Re: TI-H: EL Backlighting (again)
do you have -any- idea how many times i've zapped myself with 120AC? =)
what i -really- need to play with it is a Variac, but they're hard to
find nowadays.
--nick
Bryan Fields wrote:
>
> I think this might help you.
>
> In the July 1999 issue of Nuts & Volts on pages 82-87, there is a
> article about basic operation and use of EL lamps by TJ Byers. It is a
> very well written article even has 8 circuit examples that you can use
> for driving EL lamps.
>
> If you want I can copy it and mail you a copy.
>
> Some one also said to connect it to the 120V mains, don't do that. It is
> not safe. The only way you should try that would be if you had a fast
> blow fuse, and a isolation X-former. It is much easier to use a driver
> IC.
>
> Nick wrote:
> >
> > i came into possession of an old EL backlight from an ancient Newton
> > (yeah, early 90's hardcore!) sooo, i have no idea how to power the
> > bloody thing, i need some sort of IC, apparently, and i don't know what.
> > anyone can feed me a clue?
> >
> > --nick
>
> --
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and the
> fallacies, to avert the evil by processes of education, the remedy to be
> applied is more speech, not enforced silence."
> -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, 1927
>
> "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is
> the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
> --William Pitt, 1783
>
> And just 'cus I am a Pyro,
>
> "Nonflammable is not a challenge"
> --Bart Simpson
>
> Bryan Fields, KB9MCI
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