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Current Category What is Electroluminescent (EL) lighting?
Elec2go, Australian owned business brings EL to the country
Electroluminescense is the latest technology lighting up the world. In your home, in the car, at your business, and on your body. Emit a glow that never gets too hot to handle. The applications are virtually limitless and now it is available from a NSW registered business elec2go.com.au.
Light up Y0UR world with EL, low power, low heat, low maintenance!
As a local business, Elec2go.com.au offers cheap, small order EL products to the public and our staff work with you to find the most appropriate solution for your project whether that be from ordinary stock or custom made and designed for you.
EL wires provide glowing, flashing lines of light which can be bent and formed to decorate anything from car or building interior, bike, or clothing. EL panels and lamps are great for illuminated back-lit display of photos, crafts or advertising signage, instrument panels and point of purchase signage. Panels can even be custom made to your design and stitched into clothing.
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All EL lamps, electroluminescent wires and sheets draw very little power, therefore, produce little heat, and, because they don't contain filaments or mechanical parts, they are not susceptible to shock, vibration or catastrophic light failure.
Unlike directional light sources such as LED's and incandescent, electroluminescent illumination evenly distributes and sources light only where it is needed instead of shining on an area from a distance therefore no light is wasted or diffused. It can illuminate a wide area instead of simply a point or line source like other forms of illumination.
Since the 1930’s Electroluminescent technology has been available but due to high costs it has remained fairly exclusive to the medical and aviation industry.
Recent innovations in production and lower cost materials have now made EL technology available to the wider community yet in Australia it is still a fairly new concept.
With seemingly limitless potential, EL Technology is set to grow at great pace in Australia. Your business could benefit from the versatility and exciting characteristics of EL used for anything from ambient up-lighting to dazzling, flashing illuminated corporate badges, decorative displays, art, signage, costumes – the list is endless, only limited by your imagination. |
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How is the light created?
EL is created by a reaction of an electrical field across a layer of phosphor.
In the case of EL wire, the central conductor wire is coated in phosphor then wrapped in 2 fine electrode wires. It is then sheathed in vinyl which may be clear or coloured and further sheaths are added to create wire with a greater diameter than 2.2mm. Only the superfine 0.9mm has a core wire thinner than all the others.
EL panels and sheets are made slightly differently. The phosphor is laid down across a conductor sheet and electrode tape runs around the border. The whole sheet is encased in plastic laminate.
The electrical field is created by a small unit known as an inverter or driver and the choice of driver is specific to either the length length of wire or the total surface area of EL being powered.
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Characteristics of EL wire:
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· Homogenous light source 360degrees around the wire.
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· Endless colour choices controlled in part by the phosphor, the frequency applied and the coloured vinyl coating.
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· From 0.9mm – 5mm diameters.
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· Low power draw equivalent to approx 1-10% of the total power needed for neon lighting, 50-70% LED, 20-40% rope lamp.
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· Safe next to skin as there is virtually no heat loss and the working current is harmless to the human body. People with vinyl allergies should avoid use close to the skin.
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· Flexible. Soft EL wire will spring back to shape whereas stiff EL wire will hold its shape.
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· Great in low light situations and subtle enough that you can stare directly at the light source and won’t be left with a visual scorch which can take a while to go away.
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· Brightness can be increased by running together 2 parallel lines.
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· Length 0.5 to 100M.
Characteristics of EL panels:
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· Looks and feels like a laminated document – less than 0.5mm thick.
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· Flexible, can be curved
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· Almost unbreakable
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· As they don't contain filaments or mechanical parts, they are not susceptible to shock or vibration.
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· Uniform diffuse luminosity across panel – no glare
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· Negligible heat loss
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· Low Power Consumption – consumes 75-90% less power than a point light source such as LED
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· High efficiency – approx 80% of energy is converted to light.
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· Colours – various colours available. Intensity can be increased with increase frequency but this decreases the life span. If intense colours are required, sometimes an overlay will provide the solution. We currently only carry white sheets that have a light pink colour when off.
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· Brightness – good in low level light situations. Increasing the voltage will increase brightness but this will decrease life span although it will be to a lesser degree than the decrease caused by increasing frequency.
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· Size: up to 120 x 80cm. We currently only stock A4 size but any size can be ordered. Minimum order and tooling costs will apply.
EL wire technical specifications:
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· Operating current 6mA/m
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· Power 0.4W/m
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· Capacitance 4.6nF/M
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· Anti pulling ability <1kg
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· Brightness 30-100c d/m2
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· Operating Frequency: AC 80-450V 50-4000Hz
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· Optimal Operating Frequency: AC 110V 1000-2000HZ
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· Environmental temperature -40 - + 60degrees C
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· Average life time 4000 hrs
EL Sheet specifications for sheet size 841 x 594mm (A1)
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Max Voltage |
160V |
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Working voltage span |
70~120 V |
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Best working voltage |
100V |
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Working frequency span |
400-1000Hz |
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Best working frequency |
1000Hz |
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Working temperature span |
-10~+50 Celsius |
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Storage temperature span |
-10~+55 Celsius |
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The half time of light |
>3000h (100V,1000Hz) |
EL Sheet’s electric /optics characteristic
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Item |
Unit |
Testing condition |
Testing result |
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The light of naked sheet |
cd /m2 |
AC100V,1000Hz |
50-55 |
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Power consume |
W / m2 |
AC100V,1000Hz |
<45 |
EL Inverters for Panels
EL inverters convert the DC input current to the required AC necessary current to operate the lamp. The inverter is critical to the overall performance of the lamp's durability, power consumption, size and weight and, of course, the cost of the completed system. Operating EL lamps at brighter illumination may shorten the lamp life. If your design would lend itself to a flashing light, it would assist in reducing power consumption, enhance and spotlight the visual effect, and extend the battery life, but this might add cost and size to the inverter Variety of Shapes and Sizes
Inverter Specifications
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Type |
for A1 size panels |
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Input voltage |
AC220/240V |
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Input frequency |
50/60Hz |
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output voltage |
95-110V |
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output frequency |
900-1100Hz |
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Operating model |
constantly |
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Power consumption |
<80W |
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Drive area of EL sheet |
4500-5200cm2 |
Elec2go.com offers cheap el wire and el panels to the public EL wire is sometimes known as electroluminescent wire or cold cathode wire and it's appearance is reminiscent of neon. Elec2go can supply custom orders with wholesale pricing on many el products such as el inverters, el wires cut to length inverters as well as fine electroluminescent fibre. We are able to produce to your order, flashing el logo panels stitched into clothing for staff to wear at conferences, expos. We can order el panels and el sheets for any size for back lighting and back-lit display very popular for illuminated advertising and car mods. Auto interiors can glow with el cables. We have in stock a range of el flat panels and el flashing badges. el. Electroluminescent wires kits for bicycle safety are popular as are el night fishing lights.
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