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Originally Posted by blake7
Thank you for a great build thread! It looks perfect. Can't wait to see it finished.
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@blake7 thanks. Can't wait me too
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Originally Posted by Wulf111
i have a thought, maybe try glow wire instead of LED's they are not as bright but you could rig it to look like FL tube bulbs in the ceiling.
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Originally Posted by vulcan8630
What about EL strips (electro luminescent strips) or EL tape? You could glue or tape it to the ceilings and it would look like miniature ceiling lights.......
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Thanks for the hints Wulf111 and vulcan8630.
The idea is tempting, but I have some doubt if it could work at this small scale.
For both, the problem is, i think, in the length of the wire/strip. You can cut them at the length that you need, but the driver for the shorter wire is for 15' (!?).
The passengers cabine of the Orion is long 7 cm. Also doubling the wire we have a total length of 15 cm (0,52'): too short.
There is another issue, maybe, the thickness.
We have a thickness 1,5 mm for the wire and there's a room of 2 mm on the ceiling: i think too thick. (Very large FL tube bulbs indeed)
It's long time that i'm looking for a solution for lighting of the interior of the models, but always theoretically. This time i have the right motivation to find a working solution. Around in the net there are a bunch of information, tutorials, stores that are confusing me rather then help me.
But in this forum I'm following the spacerunner's epic build of the Shuttle Launch Pad. Here you can find a lot of information and experiences, adding lights to the complex structure. Particulary in this
post I found a video showing an "how to" with small SMD ( Surface Mounting Device ) LED. At the referenced site i found a
"Chip Light Kit" very appetising, between many other solutions.
The LED is thiny, the power source is simple and small, no circuit or resistors, there is also a switch ...
May it be that i found "the" solution? As an italian poet (A.Manzoni) said, talking about the Napoleon glory: "Ai posteri l'ardua sentenza" (posterity will judge ...) .
Best, Nando
