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Light Strips for Home Decoration?

Posted by Cliff on from the if-its-good-enough-for-the-computer dept.

Smegoid asks: " Three cheers for light strips for case mods and all that, but what about light strips for interior TRON style design? Wouldn't mind Tron'ing out my apartment. Anyone know a source for strips longer than 1.5m? What about powering the stuff without using a computer power supply. The potential for light strips goes well beyond a computer case. Think lightcycles, think MCP!" I wouldn't go as far as TRON but a room tricked out with a nice glow-light would make for a really cool effect. If case strip mods aren't an effective way to get this kind of look, is there another way to go? Long before I discovered light strips, I thought that fiber optics and some colorized light source might be the way to go, but what kind of light sources work best with fiber for best described as "mood lighting"?

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  1. Eighth Reality. by ChiefArcher · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.eighthreality.com/

    Look under the illuminescense category for "EL-Wire"

    Good stuff.. Ordered from here before ....

    ChiefArcher

  2. coolneon.com by LordNimon · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://coolneon.com/.

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  3. Pool lights? by okie_rhce · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have a friend who's mother has a pool. Around the lip of the pool is a solid "band" that changes color. Its almost like a multi-color indiglo. Maybe ask a pool shop?

  4. Rope Light by Black+Perl · · Score: 3, Informative

    Plain ol' Rope Light is generally the best way to go, as it is spliceable and dimmable and relatively inexpensive.

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    bp
  5. Custom lighting by mosch · · Score: 3, Informative

    There's all sorts of interesting lighting possibilities from places like Lucifer Lighting.

  6. Re:New GE bulbs by chrysrobyn · · Score: 3, Informative

    I am a lighting product engineer for GE, and our new 'RealLight'(tm) bulbs are very good for this type of lighting. Also, you'd be patronizing a fellow /.er :-))

    Patronizing mode on. Since you're new here, we typically post a link whenver possible. Especially if our employers use websites that require Java to successfully navigate ("Mouse over for more information" is not acceptable). I'm not dogging you for working for a mega-corp, just that if you expect someone to look at what you're doing (and believe me, I was interested for 7-8 minutes), you need to help us out. I'm not familiar with all your product lines, you will undoubtedly be more efficient navigating them and pointing out the wonderful fruits of your labor. 5 minutes of your time finding the product you recommend, whose sale inflates your paychecks/ bonuses, are 5 minutes that 50 or more people here won't have to spend. Patronizing mode off**

    I don't use Java -- the most obnoxious non-stop moving, color cycling ads that are so distracting that I can't read the text are flash -- which won't show up on my machine with Java and Javascript disabled.

  7. FlatLight by jpmkm · · Score: 3, Informative

    FlatLight by E-Lite technologies is an EL strip that can come in lengths of 300 feet and several different widths. Not sure if you can get smaller lenghts. It gets quite expensive, though. 300 feet of inch-wide strip is $1600. You can do some pretty kickass stuff with it, though.