Plasma Backlight?

installer09 · 06-09-2002, 6:24 PM

Anyone got any good ideas how i can backlight a plasma please?

06-09-2002, 6:31 PM

mine is wall mounted i have been thinking of backlighting it with either that rope lighting or i seen a pic some where of some one who put a neon strip behind his
have a look at the gallery pics on the www.avsforum.com

http://translate.google.com/translat...8%26oe%3DUTF-8

its about the 5th pic down
hope this helps

installer09 · 06-09-2002, 6:36 PM

Cheers Jmack avsforums is where i got the idea from , havnt seen rope lighting is this easilly obtainable?

06-09-2002, 6:41 PM

ive just looked on maplins site could not find it but will still search
did u look at the bottom link that guy got a nice set up.
i think a rope type lighting would give a better light than the neon strip on each side of the panel

ReTrO · 06-09-2002, 10:05 PM

You can get rope light from Homebase most of the year round. they do most colours, though it may be a bit long.

Miniholic · 06-09-2002, 11:32 PM

Argos sell, rope lighting, saw it in the catalogue this afternoon, when my girlfriend was looking for some speaker stands. Thankfully I managed to talk her out of the £9.99 ones though! Taking her to a proper shop tomorrow.

RichardH · 07-09-2002, 11:10 AM

The Argos stuff seems to be multicoloured and a bit nasty.
Some of the overclocking stores sell it as a case mod, but I guess it would be 12V - quite expensive too!

What about the kitchen cupboard strip lights you get? They seem to have a "warmer" light than neon tubes, and they are fairly low profile, too.....

installer09 · 13-10-2002, 4:03 PM

Im going to try white christmas tree lights! should be easy to hide.

RichardH · 13-10-2002, 4:24 PM

I nearly suggested that but thought I'd get laughed at.
Never tried, but can you run them off a dimmer - I don't see why not, as they're normal bulbs at 240V. Might do something similar round our fixed PJ screen....

installer09 · 13-10-2002, 8:40 PM

Im going to wire them to a dimmer switch so i can control them with my rc 5000, will try and post a pic if it works ok.

RichardH · 14-10-2002, 7:12 AM

Animated GIF of the dim in action, please

That's what I was kind of thinking of for myself.

06-09-2002, 6:31 PM	#2
jmack Guest Posts: n/a	mine is wall mounted i have been thinking of backlighting it with either that rope lighting or i seen a pic some where of some one who put a neon strip behind his have a look at the gallery pics on the www.avsforum.com http://translate.google.com/translat...8%26oe%3DUTF-8 its about the 5th pic down hope this helps
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06-09-2002, 6:41 PM	#4
jmack Guest Posts: n/a	ive just looked on maplins site could not find it but will still search did u look at the bottom link that guy got a nice set up. i think a rope type lighting would give a better light than the neon strip on each side of the panel
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