Plasma Backlight?

[installer09]

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

 

[jmack]

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/transla...?q=philips+962sa+&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

its about the 5th pic down
hope this helps

 

[installer09]

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

 

[jmack]

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]

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

 

[Miniholic]

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]

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]

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

 

[RichardH]

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]

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]

Animated GIF of the dim in action, please

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