El plastic in embedded form factor

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El plastic in embedded form factor

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I am working on creating a wearable watch device that I'd like to incorporate the look of a glowing el plastic (I.e http://www.adafruit.com/products/414 el plastic ). The problem is the el inverter doesn't seem to be friendly to anything that small. Is there any way of getting a cool glowing effect in a watch form factor and run from a lipoly battery?

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Re: El plastic in embedded form factor

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Are you saying that the inverter that comes with it doesn't work if you cut the panel to the size of a watch? I've not heard of that problem.
You will have a problem with 12V, though.
You can get a glowing effect by edge-lighting a piece of frosted acrylic with LEDs. That will let you run from a LiPo.

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Re: El plastic in embedded form factor

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I've considered the frosted acrylic glass approach, my only concern was finding a very bright set of presumably smd sized led's. I'd really like for the glow to be very visible in a dark room and light a small radius around the wearer. I'm pretty much going for a scifi esque glow

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You can get right-angle SMD LEDs. If you mask the edges of the acrylic, you shouldn't get any spillover

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