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Bmwz389
01-15-2008, 10:07 PM
Ok so I'm about to complete my room remodeling.

Here's what I want to do. I have my 2 guitars hanging on each side of my window. At night, you can't see them unless I turn on the light or turn on the bar sign. What I want to do is put a glow effect behind both of them.

Now, I have this key chain I used to test the effect. It's a single, super bright white LED. If I center it behind the guitar, it puts an outline of the guitar visible in pitch dark. It looks awesome.

Now where I'm stuck is I have no idea how to do this, or if it's even possible.

What I'm thinking is this:

Get 2 (Two) SBW LED's, drill and mount into the wall so it looks professional when I remove the guitars to play them.

Run the wires out of the wall near the floor and mount them to a switch. The switch will need to have a power supply. I was thinking of like a 9 volt, but I realized what a pain in the ass it would be to keep replacing the expensive battery it takes.

I also think some about a load EQ?

So what all needs to be done here? I know there are plenty of LED nuts on here, as well as some electricians. So I don't think it'll take much to learn how to do this. I hope it's possible because it looks so sweet...

Thanks already guys!

- Brandon

BrooklynBay
01-15-2008, 11:30 PM
You could buy LED replacement bulbs from places like WWW.LEDtronics.Com or WWW.CCrane.Com. Take a look at this for example: http://www.ccrane.com/lights/led-light-bulbs/index.aspx

BrooklynBay
05-20-2008, 01:32 AM
Here is a new Geo bulb which just came out: http://www.ccrane.com/geobulb/index.aspx. Unfortunately its very expensive ($120), but I'm sure that the price will drop once it becomes more popular, and other companies start to manufacture it.
http://www.ccrane.com/images/large/geobulb-led-light-bulb.jpg

redneck21
05-20-2008, 02:06 AM
Got an old phone charger? cut the end of an old phone charger ran the + to + and - to - with a switch. The + should have a wight line on one of the wires of the charger. Then just hide all the wires. The part on the charger should say what volts the output is get between 9-12 V