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- October 26, 2003 at 12:56 am #9792
  LILNismo
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  G’day all
  
  On my way to bed, i stepped on a digital watch, somehow the light went on and gave a really nice blue glow on the floor.
  
  Is it possible to transfer that light system on the bottem of the car somewhere, appon having a quick look, it seems that it would fit length and width wise, however, i’m not sure about hight.
  
  Before i go about destorying a perfectly usless watch, i thought i should consult on this.
- October 26, 2003 at 3:40 am #25878
  leonli17
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  Technically I think it’s possible. But why not just use the rectangular LEDs instead of destroy a watch.
- October 26, 2003 at 4:21 am #25879
  Pork_Hunt
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  I am pretty sure the material that produces the glow is EL sheet. I’m not sure how easy it is to transfer from a watch to a car tho, but it can be bought on its own.
- October 26, 2003 at 3:45 pm #25883
  LILNismo
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  Well, i’ll get to work on it today and tell you how it go’s.
  
  leonli: i don’t want to use rectangular LED’s cause that would be mainstream, and we don’t want that do we 🙂
- October 26, 2003 at 4:33 pm #25884
  LILNismo
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  UPDATE:
  
  I attempted to get to work on it but i couldn’t open the back of it. This was very FRUSTRATING. i could not find a screw driver that was like .5mm wide. in the end it pissed me off so much i drove over it. IT DIDN’T EVEN GET CLOSE TO OPENNING. the light sill works but now the screen only works on the seconds section, due to a large crack on the otherside.
  
  …….and it’s still not open
- October 27, 2003 at 3:24 am #43800
  leonli17
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  Tough watch. Even after u drove over it part of the screen still works?:smiley2:
  Then u shouldn’t drove over it.:smiley2:
- October 27, 2003 at 2:33 pm #25803
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  Take it to a Jewlers, and ask them to just take the back off for you. They should do it for free if they aren’t money grabbing bastards.
- October 28, 2003 at 4:19 am #25839
  micro_Amps
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  Why kill a watch to do this.
  Once you open it, you will find exactly the same as what you can buy anyway, tiny bright leds.
  No mystery there, just a dead watch.
  :)uA
- October 28, 2003 at 3:32 pm #25696
  DaveF
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  He said he stepped on it, and also drove over it. The watch is a write off anyway. Sounds like it wasn’t exactly a rolex to start with anyway.
- October 28, 2003 at 11:23 pm #25746
  trash
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  lilnismo it sounds like what you want is simple surface mount LED’s that you can get from jaycar, farnell, RS, wes, oatley electronics, even dick smith or any mobile phone shop. They tiny and don’t draw too much power. (20mA each).
  
  I have some electroluminecient panels that I bought in Hong Kong. They sound like just the thing your looking for. $3 each.
  All ELS’s require about 100 volts AC to drive them and only a tiny amount of current.
  A simple switchmode boost circuit works well.
  
  Oatley eletronics used to sell them a few years ago, might care to give them a buzz see if they still have any in stock.
- October 29, 2003 at 1:32 am #25752
  LILNismo
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  Thanks guys, i might have to have a look at some of those surface mount led’s. and yeah it wasn’t a rolex it was some crapy 20 buck k-mart watch which i’ve since i was about 8. Now the only watch i have is my Casio, which the light is really non-glowing. pretty ironic considering it cost about tem times as much. Though is was awfully fun driving over a watch, i reccomend it to all people with problems with anger.
- October 29, 2003 at 5:43 am #25755
  leonli17
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  And whoever doesn’t have a licence but eager to drive over something.:D
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