miked wrote:Looks darn good to me, pal! Very jealous of the lighting in your façade. You really hit a homerun there.
As for the UV light, I absolutely applaud your taking on soldering hundreds of LEDs, but UV lights are pretty cheap on EBay. I mean, really, they are a $15 fluorescent light fixture and a $10 UV fluorescent bulb. If all the LEDs you'll be soldering will be powered "Christmas Light Style" where if the bulb "here" goes out, nothing beyond that bulb works, you have 200 individual points of failure that would be darn near impossible to troubleshoot and could leave the thing a paperweight. NOT trying to discourage you, but maybe bring something to your attention that may have slipped past you in the "enthusiasm of the moment. "
Nope, it's going ahead
If all the LED's go out I will KNOW my power rail (literally a rail!) is bust. Otherwise all the LEDs will probably be grouped into 7s (with a 120Ω resistor for each group to limit current to 20mA), so only a group of 7 will be out
7 may be too many, but I'll see. I cannot buy a UV light in the shape of my logo, so I am going to have to make it. The initial idea was to sparked off when I did a gig with these guys:
Their "footwork" sign in the background is just a load of blue LEDs. I decided that it looked so good and was probably so easy to make (except the soldering), that it was put on the list of to-dos. It was only later when trying to decide the colour of LEDs that I realised that UV ones would serve a dual purpose - serving as a sign to look pro and advertise, along with the UV light.
Normal shop bought UV LED lights are CRAP as their LEDs only emit at 395nm - I have one and it
only just makes white stuff glow. In my sign I will be using 395nm AND 365nm, which is further into the UV spectrum, so stuff will glow more
I can get 100 395nm LEDs for about £6, but the 365nm are going to cost £70
You won't find any of those 365nm ones in any shop bought UV lights - I wonder why!
The logo will be a 'dots' version of this:
miked wrote:I also think it's quite nice of Bill to allow our (some others...but mostly us
) OT build threads. IMO, he's OK w/it as long as it's nothing that competes with anything he's selling. I certainly understand that! Thanks, Bill.
I'm in total agreement with you there... thanks Bill for allowing Mike & I to have these extra build threads on your board. It's not like we are flooding it with loads of stuff and it's hard to find the BFM stuff (in which case I would expect a telling off
). I DO enjoy a good build thread though whether cabs or other stuff - your (miked's) facade for example got me building mine. You can pick up ideas for your next build on ANY build thread, not just from the cab builds. I think it helps that it is related to BFM (i.e. building a rig), which means it could prove useful to others, which is surely the whole idea of this board.
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It may be because I am only using the mic and not the music input. I will go fiddle now and get this video done 
BT Infinity being installed in a week or 2 though... 38MB/s should make these vids a bit quicker when uploading and still leave room for me to host a porn site or 2 
BASTARDS!! 
Thanks to you lot, I now have an out of control speaker building addiction, a serious case of OCD, 'PL-fingers' and tinnitus! Still, it could be worse... I've seen hifibob's battle against the bins. Get that man some help - NOW!! 
