[Elecraft] EL foil for K1 backlighting

[Don Brown]

Hi

I have not tried it but there are some glow in the dark plastic sheets that 
once charged up with a flashlight will glow brightly for several hours. This 
is not the stuff you played with as a kid. This sheeting will put out some 
serious light for quite a while with only a few seconds charge time. A 3x5 
card of this stuff will light up a room in complete darkness enough to read 
by. My thought would be to replace the K1 display with the one with the 
clear back and place a piece of this glow sheet behind the display. Here is 
a source for the sheeting

http://extremeglow.com/Merchant4/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=GP

Don Brown

KD5NDB


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Artz" <jasonartz at yahoo.com>
To: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 4:52 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] EL foil for K1 backlighting


> Hello,
>
> Has anyone tried EL foil behind the LCD display on the
> K1?  The display I have does allow some light through,
> so perhaps using a piece of this foil will work.
>
> Could the power inverter generate RF interference?
>
> If you've tried it, let me know how it went.
>
> Here's a source for the foil and driver:
>
> http://www.cooltronix.com/shop/
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
> AC6XA
>
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