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who supplies Electroluminescant signs?
Hi,
I’ve been approached to make a KENWOOD logo from electroluminescant sheets, it’s to glow white + the red triangle (above the W on the Kenwood logo).
It is to be 900mm x 145mm which is a fair bit bigger than i’ve ever worked with the e/l material. Does anyone have any recommended suppliers for the e/l material or any tips as to the best way to make something this size as i’m not 100% sure on the type of transformer to use etc.
It’s to be used in a car boot btw.
Thanks,
Gareth
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4 Replies
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excuse my ignorance mate.. (not my feild :oops:)
do you mean somthing like “luninart” 🙄 -
Hi robert,
I’ve never heard of Luninart but the kind of thing i’m after is as thick as a piece of paper & comes in various sizes & basic colours such as white, red green etc.
This can be cut using a vinyl cutter and has electrical connections on the back, once these connections are connected via a transformer the material gives out a neon type glow.
hth,
Gareth
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Why not use stand off letters and fold lumi wire around the outside?
Easy to use, cheap, lots of colours available and runs on 6v transformer!
check out http://www.maplin.co.uk search luminescant wire.
You will never use neon or led`s again!
hope this helps,
trev -
Sorry mate.. that should have been “LUMNIART” 😳 😳
Tere i go again showing off with my spelling and puntuation.. ahem 😉anyways..
luminart, cant remember exactly the workings. but ill try..its like a peice of clear 3mm perspex. you cut mat black vinyl as a panel and weed out the test/graphic. using a hand held or machine guided pump/syringe you trace the weeded out text etc it leaves a coloured tube like piping. “like a neon tube” (slimmer though) then you basicaly slide the panel into a light box of some sort.. and illuminate it.. the liquid tube has now set and with a back light glows like real neon.. not just as bright but very effective none the less.
im sure luminart do a trade service also.as for what you mentioned above. why not just do what i said above with the luminart thing. use thin clear perspex or acitate.. create a mat black panel with graphic weeded from it. apply that to the face of the thin perspex/acitate and on the rear use rectangles of “translucent” coloured vinyl. covering the areas that have graphics/text. back light it and it should glow these colours..
knowing me, ive probably picked you up completely wrong. but i guess those are a couple of ideas to think about anyway 😆 .. 😕 😉
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