[Noisebridge-discuss] SuperFlex EL-cloth demo en route

[Sai Emrys]

New toy on the way. Email me if you want the spec documents.

I wanna play with it, but y'all are welcome to also. Please don't do
something destructive to it without talking to me first. Otherwise,
have fun.

Enjoy,
- Sai


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jill Simpson <jsimpson at crosslinkusa.com>
Date: Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:50 AM
Subject: RE: SuperFlex demo kit request
To: Sai Emrys <sai at saizai.com>


Sai,

Your sample will ship out early to mid- next week.  The "demo kit"
contains a 25-in2 lamp (square) and a battery-operated inverter/power
supply.  We print the lamps on 12x12 in pieces of fabric, but the lamp
itself is only 5 x 5 in.  Before shipping the lamps, we usually cut off
the extra 7 inches.  I can ask them to leave as much as possible of it
on your sample, though, so that you can cut it to whatever border size
you need.

You can cut the lamp and still make it light, as long as you maintain
ability to connect to the "front" electrode and the "back" electrode.
The front is easy to connect to because there is a silver outline around
3/4 of the perimeter.  The back electrode is under most of the lamp, but
there is also a strip along the bottom of the lamp that connects to the
back.  Basically, to function, the lamp requires an AC field across the
stack -- it's like a capacitor.

For real-world applications where a simple 25-in2 square is not the
preferred shape/form, we can make custom designs.  This is a "simple"
matter of creating new CAD designs, film, and screens, to print the lamp
into whatever pattern we want.  There are, of course, large tooling
costs (about $3-$5K) associated with custom designs.

--Jill

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Jill C. Simpson, Ph.D.
General Manager
Crosslink