EL wire barbershop pole...

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By Phillip Torrone
Posted 2006/02/26 @ 1:01 am
Category Electronics

MAKE Flickr photo pool member Guero Loco made a “barber pole” type light with standard Lytec EL wire Link.

Previously:
EL wire lamp project.
Make a Glowing, Wearable, EL-Wire, Blinky Light Using Open Source Tools by Mikey Sklar.

In the Maker Shed

Make Subscription

Getting Started with Raspberry Pi

Arduino Uno Rev 3 (Make SMD Version)

Getting Started with Arduino Kit v3.0

6 Responses to EL wire barbershop pole…

benjiwenjifoofoo on February 26th, 2006 at 1:56 pm said:

does anyone else have a problem ordering from the website?

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guero on February 27th, 2006 at 8:31 am said:

This project is still under way….. I want to figure out a way to spin the light, but i don’t know much about motors. I’d like to be able to spin it at speeds of about 30 to 120 RPM. A small DC motor would work, I think. You can change the speed of a DC motor by varying the voltage, correct? Then I could use an AC adaptor with variable output to power it. I also want eventually to add a sequencer, so that sometimes only the left-spiraling wires are lit or vice versa. Mark Lakata designed a very nice programmable sequencer for bigger EL wire projects (see http://www.lakata.org/qromodyn/FunkyEL/) although it seems like it might be too big to ride onboard my light. Also, this sequencer switches only low voltage, so I’d need six inverters instead of just one.
The other problem is powering the EL wire. the 9v batteries work fine, but of course they have to be replaced every few hours of operation. I would really like to find some kind of slip ring connector to deliver low-voltage DC to the rotating part of the light. Any suggestions?

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guero on October 12th, 2006 at 8:44 am said:

My instructable on this is at:

http://www.instructables.com/id/EPVDAAZV3MEP2873ZT/

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