First LED lit apartment
Adam Aglionby
Martin Riddle
for the same amount of LED power.
From the pictures I cant tell if the 'pink' is from an under exposed film or
the LED's ;)
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Kevin McMurtrie
"Adam Aglionby" <n...@capersville.co.uk> wrote:
True. There may be some broken toes along the way too, with those lamps
sticking out of the dimly lit floor.
I assume they're doing all that work for lighting effects alone. LEDs
are expensive and inefficient as light sources. I think they could have
done much better if they'd used colored cold cathode tubes for the bulk
of the lighting. (Surely all those flat screen TVs use CCFLs)
Quack
they are set to white ...
I think it would be really interesting to incorporate the system into
your stereo and have the ligh patterns change to the music, like the
'visualizations' do in WMP or other music players ..
I was once thinking of decking out a bar like that, with the bar-top
with side lit leds in glass to create funky patterns - except it might
make you a little woozy after an hour and a few drinks .. :)
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> for the same amount of LED power.
> From the pictures I cant tell if the 'pink' is from an under exposed film
or
> the LED's ;)
I think that is the way it's designed. I have seen this stuff fitted
localy - looks a treat. Can get quite white and bright with those things,
infact you can do a lot better than with flourescent and incandescent. Costs
a ton though.
james
Aren't there standards for maximum exposure to monochromatic light or
wouldn't that count if you had more than one colour?
James
Victor Roberts
<mcmu...@dslextreme.com> wrote:
>I assume they're doing all that work for lighting effects alone. LEDs
>are expensive and inefficient as light sources. I think they could have
>done much better if they'd used colored cold cathode tubes for the bulk
>of the lighting. (Surely all those flat screen TVs use CCFLs)
I read they really did it just to have the first room or apartment lit
entirely by LEDs.
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Mike
Damn. I just chucked my old wide-lapel-polyester-velour-bell-bottom
seventies suit (and no longer have enough hair to even need a comb). If I
hadn't, though, all they'd need in that house is a disco ball and I'd be
ready.
-- Mike --
james
> wouldn't that count if you had more than one colour?
>
> James
I'm sorry, I engaged my keboard but my brain was still in neutral.
James :P
Adam Aglionby
"Quack" <alex+...@vuetec.com> wrote in message
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> Looking at the pictures it seems to get a decent amount of light when
> they are set to white ...
>
> I think it would be really interesting to incorporate the system into
> your stereo and have the ligh patterns change to the music, like the
> 'visualizations' do in WMP or other music players ..
winamp plug in , and it physically plugs in:
Adam
>>>SNIPPED<<<
Michael
I'd like a place where, rather than trying to light up a room, you
light up anything that you need to touch or see, ie. drawer knobs
glow, taps glow, toilet seat & flush button glows, doorways and floor
edges light up. ect ect.
Paul Hovnanian P.E.
>
> "Adam Aglionby" <n...@capersville.co.uk> wrote in message news:<K7nNb.16006$QW4.17...@news-text.cableinet.net>...
> > shows that there is a long way to go.....
> >
> > http://www.thevospad.com/
> >
> > Adam
>
> I'd like a place where, rather than trying to light up a room, you
> light up anything that you need to touch or see, ie. drawer knobs
> glow, taps glow, toilet seat
[snip]
Use bi-color LEDs for this. Red if its up, green if its down. That may
eliminate complaints from some people about it always being in an
indeterminate state. ;-)
& flush button glows, doorways and floor edges light up. ect ect.
Motion detector activated night lights. That way, you don't need to turn
on all the lights and wake everyone when you've got to get up in the
middle of the night.
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Genome
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> Motion detector activated night lights. That way, you don't need to turn
> on all the lights and wake everyone when you've got to get up in the
> middle of the night.
>
> --
> Paul Hovnanian
I don't understand.
Are you saying you don't know the way to your own bog in the dark?
DNA
John Woodgate
wrote (in <ec96e13a.04011...@posting.google.com>) about
'First LED lit apartment', on Thu, 15 Jan 2004:
>I'd like a place where, rather than trying to light up a room, you
>light up anything that you need to touch or see, ie. drawer knobs
>glow, taps glow, toilet seat & flush button glows, doorways and floor
>edges light up. ect ect.
Build a time machine, go back to 1920 and get a can of radium paint.
(;-)
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> Motion detector activated night lights. That way, you don't need to turn
> on all the lights and wake everyone when you've got to get up in the
> middle of the night.
Only trouble is they keep going off once you stop moving. Most
annoying. Anyone whose ever tried to do something under a PIR garden
light knows what I mean.
If you stretch the ontimes to say 20 minutes then
a) youve got a house long trail of lights on behind you
b) theyre still annoying when youre sitting down.
Regards, NT
Bob Stephens
> I read in sci.electronics.design that Michael <mic...@clift.com.au>
> wrote (in <ec96e13a.04011...@posting.google.com>) about
> 'First LED lit apartment', on Thu, 15 Jan 2004:
>>I'd like a place where, rather than trying to light up a room, you
>>light up anything that you need to touch or see, ie. drawer knobs
>>glow, taps glow, toilet seat & flush button glows, doorways and floor
>>edges light up. ect ect.
>
> Build a time machine, go back to 1920 and get a can of radium paint.
> (;-)
Not even that far back. My father in law worked for Firestone Tire and
Rubber during World War II. Among other things they made fuel bladders for
ferrying bombers overseas. The way they checked for leaks was to paint
women's eylids with radium paint and send them inside to walk around while
the engineers outside watched for glow. Yikes! OSHA would love that one!
Bob
Adam Aglionby
"Bob Stephens" <stephensyo...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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Cases of cancer, particularly mouth cancer from licking the brush to make a
fine point, were common during and after WW2 from women employed to paint
aircraft dials with radium paint.
Not far from where I live a beach was closed due to radium scraps being
washed up on shore from scrapped military equipment at Naval dockyard
further along coast.
The radium excuse was also used at Woolwich arsenal in London when it was
being re-developed, in actual fact cadavers that had been obtained from
local teaching hosptals had been buried on site after use for radioactive
experiments, too hot even after all these years to go in a normal burial
site.
Next week on grim but true...
Adam
Adam Aglionby
"Michael" <mic...@clift.com.au> wrote in message
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Toilet seat is easy:
http://www.extremeglow.com/toilet_seat.htm
Strontium aluminate is genuinely impressive as a Glow In Dark material.
edges etc either LED or EL
Or get everthing in UV reactives:
Adam
Adam Aglionby
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UK politicians have this problem in there offices and Glenda Jackson
complained about ahving to do a light dance in her office to maintain
illumination.
Adam
Adam Aglionby
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`presents`, standing on a dead rat in middle of night is not good start to
day.
Adam
TKM
Mike <mi...@nospam.com> wrote in message
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Hmmm, there's a thought. How about a disco ball made of LEDs rather than
reflective bits. Gets rid of the clunky light source and there's lots of
programming choices. I suppose someone has done that though.
Terry McGowan
TKM
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There's more in a NYTimes article at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/08/technology/circuits/08lite.html?th
With the fast-sinking dollar, I suppose that's $60,000 + now.
Terry McGowan
John Woodgate
<WmWNb.22828$VS4.6...@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>) about
'First LED lit apartment', on Fri, 16 Jan 2004:
>How about a disco ball made of LEDs rather than
>reflective bits.
It simply doesn't work( i.e. produce an exciting subjective effect).
Lasers would work, to some extent.
John Woodgate
<n...@capersville.co.uk> wrote (in <J6UNb.1181$N86.11843684@news-
text.cableinet.net>) about 'First LED lit apartment', on Fri, 16 Jan
2004:
>Depends if you have a cat with their own door and tendency to bring in
>`presents`, standing on a dead rat in middle of night is not good start to
>day.
Whatever turns you off, baby!
John Woodgate
>complained about ahving to do a light dance in her office to maintain
>illumination.
But she can undoubtedly dance. What the building engineers are waiting
for is for John 'Two Jags' Prescott and Sir Edward Heath to do a dance
that they can video, and then they will increase the switch-off time-
constant.
John Woodgate
Not the same as strontium alum, which is a horse of a very different
colour. (;-)
TKM
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A ball studded with LEDs should certainly "sparkle" as it turned, but I
agree that the usual moving patterns on people and surfaces produced by a
traditional reflective ball would be absent or very subtle.
Terry McGowan
Amelia M. Samples
"TKM" <ligh...@apk.net> wrote in message
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you could probably do a large house for that kind of money rather than a
1000 square foot flat.
Amelia M. Samples
the powders even come in other colors than green now..
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John Woodgate
<mi...@georgebush.visi.com> wrote (in <Pp3Ob.47662$VV4...@twister.rdc-
kc.rr.com>) about 'First LED lit apartment', on Fri, 16 Jan 2004:
>Who needs 1920? Get some luminescent ZnS and some Am-241 (cheaper than Ra) -
>the powders even come in other colors than green now..
Since the proposal began with 'build a time machine', it just might not
have been intended to be taken seriously, do you think? I mean, EVER?
(;-).
TKM
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> "TKM" <ligh...@apk.net> wrote in message
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> > >
> > > "Adam Aglionby" <n...@capersville.co.uk> wrote in message
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> > > > shows that there is a long way to go.....
> > > >
> > > > http://www.thevospad.com/
> > > >
> > > > Adam
> >
> > There's more in a NYTimes article at:
> >
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/08/technology/circuits/08lite.html?th
> >
> > With the fast-sinking dollar, I suppose that's $60,000 + now.
> >
> > Terry McGowan
> >
> Try $600,000 +. It's listed at 650,000 pounds. A girl can dream...although
> you could probably do a large house for that kind of money rather than a
> 1000 square foot flat.
YIKES!
Terry McGowan
Amelia M. Samples
"John Woodgate" <j...@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote in message
> I read in sci.electronics.design that Amelia M. Samples
> <mi...@georgebush.visi.com> wrote (in <Pp3Ob.47662$VV4...@twister.rdc-
> kc.rr.com>) about 'First LED lit apartment', on Fri, 16 Jan 2004:
> >Who needs 1920? Get some luminescent ZnS and some Am-241 (cheaper than
Ra) -
> >the powders even come in other colors than green now..
>
> Since the proposal began with 'build a time machine', it just might not
> have been intended to be taken seriously, do you think? I mean, EVER?
> (;-).
My bad... ;)
Clive Mitchell
<j...@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> writes
>>How about a disco ball made of LEDs rather than
>>reflective bits.
>
>It simply doesn't work( i.e. produce an exciting subjective effect).
>Lasers would work, to some extent.
I'll disagree with this. I was using some very narrow angle high output
LEDs at Christmas, and noted the colourful blobby effect on the walls of
the room. The idea of an LED alternative to a mirror ball went through
my head at the time, but it would be a visually different effect best
suited to darker environments.
Putting a pile of lasers into a rotating ball would certainly be an
interesting effect. Given that laser pointers can be bought in modest
quantities for less than a pound (UK), I guess that mass use of laser
diodes is also commercially viable.
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John Woodgate
<cl...@emanator.demon.co.uk> wrote (in <qlzmVzEW...@emanator.demon.
co.uk>) about 'First LED lit apartment', on Fri, 16 Jan 2004:
>I'll disagree with this. I was using some very narrow angle high output LEDs at
>Christmas, and noted the colourful blobby effect on the walls of the room.
Ah, well, that's cheating. Anything that I didn't think of is cheating.
(;-)
Amelia M. Samples
"Clive Mitchell" <cl...@emanator.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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Too bad the cheap ones only come in 1 color.
ddwyer
demon.contraspam.yuk> writes
>>I'd like a place where, rather than trying to light up a room, you
>>light up anything that you need to touch or see, ie. drawer knobs
>>glow, taps glow, toilet seat & flush button glows, doorways and floor
>>edges light up. ect ect.
only heat the occupants not the room with microwave.
And of course have florescent spheres for lighting.
Note
At the Farnborough air show in the uk 1949? I was stood infront of an
aircraft nose cone radar and given an "unpowered" florescent tube to
light the room.
Dont remember feeling warm.
Only reply with money to MugDo...@hotmail.com
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ddwyer
<mic...@clift.com.au> writes
>
>I'd like a place where, rather than trying to light up a room, you
>light up anything that you need to touch or see, ie. drawer knobs
>glow, taps glow, toilet seat & flush button glows, doorways and floor
>edges light up. ect ect.
My suggestion is to employ a magnetron , line the walls with foil and
only heat the occupants not the room with microwave.
And of course have florescent spheres for lighting.
Note
At the Farnborough air show in the uk 1949? I was stood infront of an
aircraft nose cone radar and given an "unpowered" florescent tube to
light the room.
Dont remember feeling warm.
ddwyer
Michael
Had any kids since then?
ddwyer
infront of an
>> aircraft nose cone radar and given an "unpowered" florescent tube to
>> light the room.
>> Dont remember feeling warm.
>
>Had any kids since then?
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