EL Panel Connector - Add or Repair
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- This is a how-to video that demonstrates adding a new connector to the side of any EL panel, in case you need to cut a panel into many small pieces or your existing connector has broken. Requires beginner-level soldering skills.
Great tutorial! Just followed your instructions and got it on the first try! Too good to be true lol
That's great, I'm glad the video was helpful! I love working with little peices of this stuff and the www.sparkfun.com/products/10878 EL Escudo Dos shield to do animations :)
i saw a video showing that u may be able to repair the black spots with some heat (light ironing)
Cool stuff! A couple of thoughts for you: 1. Have you thought about soldering your wires to the copper tape before affixing the tape to the panel? That might alleviate concerns about overheating and give you a better solder connection; 2. What would you think about protecting your work with epoxy instead of tape + cyanoacrylate?
That's a great point, I could solder the wires to the copper first, I think that might be better, as long as I did the soldering on a hard flat surface. I could use epoxy, but I find it messier and slower. Usually when I am making my own pads like this it is because i am cutting half a dozen peices of panel that I plan to animate and/or separately mount on a fairly rigid surface, and superglue and tape seem to be about the right about of time and mess for those purposes. If I my peices were going to be flexing or the wires were going to be moving around, I think the epoxy would absolutely be better.
I'm working on a project right now that would be much easier if I had a connection at the center of my EL panel. Think it's maybe doable if I put a small hole at the center for wire routing?
it would be a very interesting experiment. You'd need to put a hole through the back to the non-glowing bus layer, but not go through it at all, heating up something blunt might do it. The panel has one big flat bus in the middle and a long skinny bus around the edges that connects to the ITO coating, the invisible top electrode, usually in one place the big bus panel goes out through the side to where the plug comes at the factory. You'd need to keep at least some of that skinny outside bus somewhere on your finished piece to attach the second electrode.
Can the wires be soldered directly to the panels?
I've never attempted soldering, I would expect the plastics to melt. The current is so low that any conductive ink that sticks will work fine, if you don't have any conductive ink you might even be able to use a few drops of water and a drop of elmers glue mixed into some finely ground pencil graphite.
what voltage with current you are used to light this things up?
I'm just using a pocket inverter, it converts 2 AAs to >100vac at the correct frequency. Check adafruits EL panel product page for detailed specs.